This has been posted on a french website. Not sure you know these pics as they were made by French dealers in 78 while touring in NYC..pics that emerged recently. One is a 1:1 Darth Vador with a strange apparel. If translation is needed please let me know. Not sure if this was the right place to post...

See hereunder the link:

http://www.toyzmag.com/2014/12/vswv-il-y-a-35-ans-aux-galeries-lafayette/

looks like Chewbacca/Ewok love child!!!

Oh God.................too........much..............awesomeness!

Thanks for the share, Alex. What a great article showing the relationship between two giants of retail.

Here in France, Galeries Lafayette is a long-established department store. So back in '79 they send some employees over to Macey's New York on a mission to learn and document how their cousins across the Atlantic operate a big store - in the hope of improving their own store back in France.

Fantastic that GF published those photos of Star Wars goodies from their archives

very cool

found this :











at Woolco ...



http://www.plaidstallions.com/toystores/toystores.html

quite a bit more pics there

just found this too ...





a bunch more pics here :

http://www.kennercollector.com/2014/01/vintage-star-wars-toy-store-photos-from-1979-1983/

wow very cool it reminds me of going to the malls when the star wars figures first came out awww the memories