Camping, Sports or Athletic Stores
- AdventureSports!
- AM/PM Camp
- Brendamour's Cincinnati, Ohio area. Liquidated in 1999.
- Chick's Sporting Goods — bought by Dick's; locations converted to Dick's
- Copeland Sports
- Galyan's — bought by Dick's; locations converted to Dick's
- Gart Sports - bought by Sports Authority
- Dave Cooks — Denver - bought by Gart Brothers; now Sports Authority
- Dick Fischers Buffalo, New York
- G.I. Joe's — Oregon and Washington
- Gold Medal (Philadelphia area)
- Golf Augusta Pro Shops
- Herman's World of Sporting Goods
- Irving's Sporting Goods
- JumboSports
- Mages — Chicago
- Morrie Mages — Chicago, started by one of the Mages Bros after the closing of Mages) stores sold to Sportmart
- MVP Sports — New England, bought by Decathlon, who exited the U.S. market altogether soon after.
- Oshman's
- Olympic Sports — Seattle, Washington
- Security Sporting Goods — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Sportmart
- Sports Town USA
- Sports Unlimited
- Sportswest
- Sunny's Surplus
- Warshal's
Read more about this topic: List Of Defunct Retailers Of The United States
Famous quotes containing the words sports, athletic and/or stores:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“In everything from athletic ability to popularity to looks, brains, and clothes, children rank themselves against others. At this age [7 and 8], children can tell you with amazing accuracy who has the coolest clothes, who tells the biggest lies, who is the best reader, who runs the fastest, and who is the most popular boy in the third grade.”
—Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)
“When their stores are full, idiots are considered wise.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.