Gold Circle debuted here in 1975 with stores in Irondequoit, Henrietta and Gates. The chain was a division of Federated Department Stores, then the world’s largest department store group ...

Hens & Kelly locations closed the following year, while Twin Fair was bought by Federated Department Stores. Many of the Twin Fair locations then became Gold Circle stores, before they were sold ...

When it was time to go back to school, we bought pencil boxes and protractors from Gold Circle. The notebook and ... memories are littered with names of stores that have come and gone.