Ben Franklin - Nags Head, NC
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Ben Franklin - Nags Head, NC. A classic along the Outer Banks. Ben Franklin is traditionally a chain of 5 and dime stores. However, this location is more of a souvenir store for tourists and visitors as well as the locals of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Around for decades, this store has been a landmark for those looking for that special gift or art work and clothing for everyone in the family. Family owned. This Ben Franklin has been a must-do every time I visit the OBX. If you ever visit the OBX, please be sure to stop here. You will not be disappointed.
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Im live just over the bridge in Currituck. All of the gift stores on OBX have just about the same thing. Ben Franklin has a bit of everything, and more of it to choose from. As a tourist, if you cant find what you want in this store, you are hard to please.
I have been going to that Ben Franklin since the 70s and 80s, when Nags Head was really unique and not over built with massive summer home mansions.
My ex-uncle owns this store. There used to be one across the bridge in Manteo (at the Cheslea Mall and much smaller) that closed in the early 90s. You are correct about the outbuilding, it's used for storage. Before the days of Wings and other similar stores, this was the only place tourists could purchase souvenirs and beach amenities they would need for their weeklong stay down at the OBX. The store is mostly staffed by international students in the summer
That's a awesome Ben Franklin store! Years ago we had a Ben Franklin store here in Weirton,WV located at the Weirton Shopping Plaza over on Penn. Ave./ Penco Road. Our Ben Franklin store was really small. I really enjoy this video!
I remember shopping there on vacations in the 90s when OBX was not nearly the hotspot it is today.
I miss the Ben Franklin we lived a block from when I was a kid.i went there to get my candy and mom would get her yarn.it was a great place.
Sorry to hear you lost your dad Wally- I just lost mine this past December 20th.. I understand the pain.. you don’t know until it happens to you. Bless his and your souls brotherhood❤🎉
Awesome store. There is a B.F. in Carrollton has old wooden floor that creaks when you walk on it. Not big but stuffed with hard to find things and old time candies.
Family loves this store
There is still a Ben Franklin in Kingsport TN. It's more of a craft and fabric store, though they do have some general merchandise too.
Very cool store. So many awesome things to buy.
I used to go Ben Franklin way back... Over 50 years ago. Long gone.
Awesome video
Beautiful mural, very cool store
This place looks awesome!!
I love the store to
Came back thru here to remember what store this was, as I’m taking my first trip to nags head next month. I WFH and need fresh scenery! So making a list of little stops to make off the clock.
What a cool find i love shopping at places like that i could spend all day in there
Thanks so much for the video of Ben Franklin's! The only one I have ever been in was on the OBX and it was a long time ago. But I thought it was on Roanoke island? At any rate, I live in CT and we had to cancel our July 2020 vacation because of you know what, so this was fun to watch.
There is a Ben Franklin in Carrollton, OH not far from the Ponderosa. Ben Franklin is one those stores I do miss going them. Maybe once things open back up I'll drive to Carrollton and check that one out. I enjoyed this video it is different to see how some stores can look and feel in different regions.
I'd love to see you visit the gift shop called. The Shipwreck on the causeway between Nags Head and Roanoke Island.
Great video. Be safe out there
You people are the best
Awesome video! Cool looking store to visit! Hope it stays open!
It’s 2 yrs later and it’s still open!
I love to support you and Kayla and I like your videos that's why I watch them
You should do a walkthrough video of Gordmans department store in Mansfield PA. It reopened and is now permanently closing because of the pandemic lockdown.
BEN THERE MANY TIMES WILL VISIT BENS IN LATE OCT! ALSOME STORE.
Man that is crazy cool. There was one in mauston WI or richland center WI, I forgot. They took down the sign a month ago though :(
That's sad. I have read time and time again how one closes here, another there. Slowly getting smaller. Sad to hear about them going.
@@WallieB26 yeah man wish you came to some places in the midwest like my local Kmart in lake zurich IL. I made a short documentary about it
I really miss Ben Franklins. Wish they were still around our area.
Awesome video 👍
Dallas has Ben Franklin store is near fair park.
Cool
I worked there in 1986 lol
Holy shit, there's still a Ben Franklin store open and K-Mart is almost extinct!?
Best place to get OBX souvenirs at budget prices. I recommend this first stop if buying gifts for loved ones. Check out games, puzzles and beach needs. Hit this place b4 going to any tourist sites.
This Ben Franklin store was a huge part of my childhood. We lived close enough to KDH that we could easily take day trips but also spent a week each summer. I think the first time I remember going in I was 6 or 7 years old. I still stop in every time I go to the beach, and honestly, I get chills because the layout and general items here haven’t changed in 30+ years.
Thanks for recording this for historic purposes. Great vid!
Ben Franklin store brought back childhood memories. We had one in South Chicago heights Il. When I was a kid candy, wax lips , and much stuff when I got some change in my pocket. Lol
Your from my area i am in Chicago Heights
I have never been to a Ben Franklin, but we had one here in Cheyenne, WY! I've heard some awesome stories about it!
Have one friend that lives in Cheyenne, he calls me every now and then. Love to come out that way again to visit him.
Wallie there was a Ben Franklin here where I grew up back in the sixties and seventies, l really liked that store , lots of great memories too . Enjoyed watching 👍
Hello Wallie good video cool store
Thank you so much with this video! I actually work here for almost 4 months too last year since I'm a student from Philippines. Its one of our internship. :)) I miss Ben franklin so much!
There is (or used to be) a similar store in Gulf Shores, AL. Haven't been there in years though. But yeah I love stores like this Wallie!!
They were a craft store. Not a five and dime store. At least in York Pa I love that place when I vacation in Nags Head.
Love the Outer Banks Ben Franklin. Bought my first salt water surf rod and reel there in 1971. Still have it, but I have graduated to much better and more expensive surf gear now. Come to the outer banks several times a year from Ohio since 1972.
I’ve been down there many times love OBX and that store omg love it and they do make you feel welcome can’t wait to go back have a great weekend 😊
I miss our Ben Franklin's. Mom would get yarn. I would check out coloring supplies.
They are pretty cool stores! The ones that still sell crafts are very nice too.
Another awesome video! I’ve been going to that Ben Franklin long before that mural appeared. Good times indeed. These videos are so chill, keep up the great work.
One of our stops every year we visit
When I was a kid about 40 years ago i remember a Ben Franklin in towanda PA. I used to visit my aunt and uncle in French asylum and we would often go to that store. It's been years since I've been in there. Always love your videos. Especially liked the one you did of the abandoned Ames in Horseheads ny. I remember the Hills that used to be there. Keep up the great video work.
Really making me wanna go back sooner than later! And makes me want salt water taffy!
Remembered this coming out in the early dark days of pandemic. It was so relaxing to watch someone stroll a shop since everything was shuttered up north. Well partially inspired my first trip to the OBX for a change of scenery and got to visit this place today 👍🏼. Thanks for making trip vids
I thought the OBX was closed. None of the souvenir shops in Cateret county are open.
I was here the first week of March. Currently everything is closed.
My mother used to shop at Ben Franklin in Prestonsburg, KY. Cool video.
Hi Wallie I did not know you were a lighthouse fan. I collect them. Love that store!!!!! Great video!!!!!
there's one in sheldon ia
I remember Ben Franklin when I was growing up in Minnesota, been years since I had seen a Ben Franklin store. Thank you for sharing!
Ben Franklin is a dying chain. I’m not sure the ones that remain are even related any more.
U guys are amazing people. I think that you guys are really talented people.
Thank you very much wallie!
Awesome video been there many times!
Thanks that was great! I like going to the OBX Ben Franklin ! We always go a couple of times. I walk around and the girls buy things. We had a Ben Franklin in Pompton Lakes but unfortunately it burnt down. Next time I go to the Outer Banks I am going to get a few OBX magnets.
l was there back in October. I really liked it.
we use to have on but no mo,re
I live in kill Devil hills obx and my name is Ben
I remember coming here when I visited the OBX and my grandma worked at a Ben Franklin for a long time
Hopefully, I’ll be down at Nags Head in June!!! Love the OBX!!!
I like the painting on the outside of the building and nice inside
Love the painting on the side of the building of the killer Wales
Nags Head? That's a name of a pub in Only Fools And Horses hehe!
I like the store too, my mum would love a place like this to buy her nautica ornaments to decorate our holiday home with :)
What a neat store! Wish we had stuff like this in Pennsylvania haha!
Nice paintwork outside this shop. This shop is big.
My hometown had one I miss it
I think my favorite gift shop would have to be The hip Wreck though. It has this ld out of place feel. It's not modern It feels like it's stuck in the past.
There was a Ben Franklin in Le Sueur. The nearest one near me that i can think of is in Grand Marias Minnesota. Its way up there. Near CANADA!
Wow. Hard to beleive any of Ben Franklins still open. Im in SW Ohio. Ours closed 20 plus years ago Im thinking. I will most definetly go there if I am ever in the area.
That’s one huge Ben Franklin! I think those stores are franchise owned, there was one up in Sioux Falls So Dakota that was going out of business back the late 90s I been in. Mother lived up there a few years and been in one of those Shopko places when they were running that time. I believe there’s a Ben Franklin that’s still going in Pella, Iowa.
Ordering online is not the same as going there. Road trip!!!!!
When I was living in great falls Montana they have a Ben Franklin store
I love her Totoro shirt!!!!!! One of my favorite Ghibli movies!
Mine too!
I remember Been Franklin there was one in Struthers Ohio next to the 5th Street plaza.
They closed Down Long time ago
Mine did 7 or 8 years ago Ben Franklin crafts.
We used to have a Ben Franklin Crafts store here in Wooster near the Walmart on Route 83. I think it was only in business for about ten years (I'm not sure) before it shut down and later became a Pet Supplies Plus (which it still is today).
There is an artist known as Wyland (well-known for painting marine wildlife murals), and the mural on the building looks like something he would have done. (This probably wasn't one of his works, but who knows?)
I do love the vide and my ex is from North Carolina but that said I say this Texas outside of Dfw has has the piney woods the ocean and hill country but most of all we have real Mexican food. I destroyed NC with food and most people aren’t from NC they are from up north or back East known as Yankees. God bless but your missing out today on real cooking and god bless Texas we make food here
I drive past this Ben Franklin several times a week for about the past seven years. Not once have I ever been in there.😂
I live on the outer banks and Ben Franklin isn't 5 and 10 cent it's a fifty and one hundred dollar store...
I did not know that there was a ben Franklin's That did not sell crafts the one we Had here was a craft store
My husband and I have never been to the outer Banks but after watching your videos. I definitely want to look into going sometime in the future. The only beach I personally have been to is Wildwood, NJ and it's been years ago. Is it one of the more expensive beaches to go to because of tourism or is it pretty well priced??
Ah, Ben Franklin. That name brings back memories. When I was a kid, we had two locations (as far as I can remember, might have been more that I don't recall) that have both closed long ago.
Both of them were largely the craft store kind of shop, lots of craft related stuff. Especially yarn and plastic canvas. That stuff was BIG when I was younger.
Anyway, the locations were in Saugerties, NY, that one has since been turned into an auction house of sorts. It's also a short distance from the abandoned McDonald's I mentioned in the comments of a previous video (turns out, it's now surrounded by 'no trespassing' signs, unfortunately).
The second was in East Greenbush, NY in Rensselaer County, which has long since been converted into a Peebles store.
Apparently, the number of Ben Franklin stores in existence isn't in the dozens, but the hundreds. Wikipedia says about 209 craft stores under the name and 123 variety stores (which this location would fall under), all supplied by the owner, Promotions Unlimited.
But, that one...it's amazing. I'd probably be buying up a bunch of stuff if I walked into it as well. Never been down that way, but if I ever am...I'll have to drop in.
I go to Ben Franklins ever chance I get I only live 40 mins away
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I didn't think there were any five and dime stores left at all
It reminds me of an old 60s department store.
Man i wish ok(home of the incarcerated tiger king) had places like ames and bf.
I take it Kayla likes My Neighbor Totoro such a wonderful movie! My favorite Ghibli movie is Howls Moving Castel
Do you like them too bro?
Castle*
Vacation time : DADDY , DADDY. STOP! ...BEN FRANKLIN. ! ..... NO..... 😭
Back in the olden days, there used to be a Ben Franklin craft store in my area. I had fond memories of wandering the store as a bored child while waiting for mom to get whatever it was she was getting.
The building I refer to originally started as a Food Lion, which I presume moved across the freeway. And today, its a Planet Fitness. Not sure if this is the same chain or not, but still, its pretty cool to see a Ben Franklin store, cause it takes me back to that memory.
It was most likely the same store. This one was but became more of a clothing and souvenir shop due to it being located on the Outer Banks. I love Food Lion btw. Wish we had them here in Pittsburgh. Giant Eagle SUCKS. Lol
It's funny you mentioned your childhood story from Ben Franklin. Reminds me of doing similiar things at Hills and Kmart when I was a kid and my mom was looking at things. Of course I couldnt run off as much since the stores were so much larger in size.
@@WallieB26 I got lost in a Kmart once as a kid. Back when my hometown had one. I swear as a little kid, I thought Kmarts went on and on forever, sorta like Click's interpretation of the beyond section in Bed Bath & Beyond.
Oh yeah, and Food Lion is good. Its good when you need the essentials. Although if you really wanna expand the ol' palette, Lowe's Foods is a step up. Only local store I can find 00 Flour & Cento sauce for pizza making.
Was this recorded before SHTF?
Early March.
Every video I have from the Outer Banks is from my trip back in early March before this virus crap got rolling.
@@WallieB26 It's okay. If you thought I was chastising you for going out, I wasn't. I was just curious because I heard people coughing and no one was running towards the exits fearing for their lives so I supposed that it was before all this happened.
@@doctorwhofan1989 all good. Yeah, there was an older gentleman complaining about his asthma while we were there who was coughing up a storm.
Man “i L A H V disss to....”my god man sum bs🤬🤬🤮
Hey wallie, truth or dare?
So. Many. Beachy. Things. And it doesn’t appear to be a tourist-y store. 😎
Elizabeth Orsillo oh, it definitely is to locals.
locals go in only if it’s “beach day” for the kids
i think it’s cause they don’t have beer.