Remember that action figure you begged your parents for every birthday? The one you played with until the paint wore off and the joints got loose?
I found a whole store full of those memories tucked into a colorful storefront in the Short North district in Columbus, Ohio. Every inch of wall space bursts with toys from decades past, from Star Wars figures still in their original packaging to Smurfs glasses from the early 1980s.
The aisles overflow with nostalgia, and the staff knows the story behind nearly every item on the shelves. I spent hours browsing through treasures I thought were lost to garage sales and childhood moves…