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Old 03-24-2016, 11:02 PM   #91
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Default Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
Do you have any impressions of how big a town needed to be in the 80s to have more than one national chain store and/or more than one national chain fast food restaurant?
Some small towns would have a Sears Catalog Store, basically a small showroom for appliances and maybe a few items in stock, you'd have to order anything else from the catalog. They might have an appliance repairman too.
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