Surprised this didn't get brought up yet considering most of us grew up during this era and fondly remember those stores well.

Basically share your memories of Toys "R" Us [[recall the brown roofs all of them used to have?) in Metro Detroit pre-2000 and predecessor Bargain Town [[anyone remember seeing these ads all over the kid's shows that 2, 4 and 7 ran, especially the announcement that they were now Toys "R" Us?)

Here are two blogs to provide some background to this.
http://thecaldorrainbow.blogspot.com...rt-i-1978.html
http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogsp...toys-r-us.html

The Southgate store opened as a Bargain Town in 1969 and became Toys "R" Us early in the 1970's. It kept the old Bargain Town design as late as 1981, then sometime afterward it received the brown roof, of course only to loose it ten years later.