Had Gibsons in MS when i was a kid. 80’s. Gone a few years later..
Bought several old timer knives from there.
I can remember the knife display cabinets that sat on the counter top.
Had plenty of fishing gear also. Still have a few zebco 33 and zebco one classic reels that likely came from there.
Yep. Biggest and best Sporting Goods Department.
Most of them closed in Texas about 1983 or 84.
A company called Strike it Rich took over a lot of the stores. They didn’t last long. Walmart moved on those old buildings about 5 years later. They were “okay” at first, but nothing like Gibson’s as far as the phenomenal amount of sporting goods.
Walmart SUCKS.
What Walmart has in any given location is an indication of the location and the manager.
One I go into in AK has powder, bullets, dies and so on.
I've been in some that have almost nothing and no guns.
Ones close to fishing areas. Lakes, rivers etc.... have normal fishing gear and sometimes lots of special to the area stuff.
As a whole the world moves on and Walmart is the current trend and we make use of it how we have to.
Academy has a larger selection of sporting goods but it should, its all that store does basically....
