CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When I was growing up we shopped at A&P for groceries. Our prescriptions were filled at Medic.

When it was time to go back to school, we bought pencil boxes and protractors from Gold Circle. The notebook and pen selection was better, however, at Burrows.

All the cool kids shopped at Chess King, though my mom took us to County Seat instead. If we were good, our parents would take us to Children's Palace or U.S. Merchandise-- because it was more fun to fill out a form with a tiny pencil and then watch our new toy arrive at checkout on a conveyor belt.

Dinner at York Steakhouse was a rare treat. So was going to the May Company downtown and exploring the upper floors (pianos!).

Everyone's childhood memories are littered with names of stores that have come and gone. How many times have you found yourself shopping at Target or Payless and wondered, whatever happened to Uncle Bills or Thom McAn? When exactly did Home Depot become the new Forest City?

Scroll through our gallery of vintage photos of stores from Greater Cleveland's past and see how many you remember.