Interview w/ Former Manager of Toys "R" Us Times Square Johnny Tammaro: "Meet Vinny"

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Kevin interviews Johnny Tammaro, the former manager of Toys "R" Us Times Square, who held many roles at Toys "R" Us including when he developed an interesting character named Vinny. The Honeyzoomers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClh0DE-NIYz2XQOv0JaKYvQ Vinny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=279NTppyqXI

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0:00.0	When you wish upon a lot.
0:05.0	Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.
0:09.0	Disneyland.
0:10.0	Just go to action park with no other park like it.
0:17.0	Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.
0:20.0	Paramount's Kings Island. Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.
0:27.0	Paramount's Kings Island. We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.
0:28.9	Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.
0:37.5	Hi, and welcome back to the Defunct Land Podcast. My name is Kevin Perger, and today I'm joining Now, here is your host.
0:39.5	Hi, and welcome back to the defunct land podcast.
0:47.1	My name is Kevin Perger, and today I'm joined by a very special guest, Johnny Tamaro, who worked at Toys R Us Times Square throughout its entire run.
0:48.4	Johnny, how are you doing?
0:48.9	Great, Kevin.
0:49.4	How are you?
0:51.4	I'm doing great as well.
0:56.0	I'm so happy that we got a chance to speak. For those of you that don't know,
1:01.7	and I don't want to get his title exactly wrong. Johnny, you worked at Toys R Us Times Square from day one to the last day. Exactly. And what was your, did you hold one position the whole time,
1:08.8	or did you move around? Oh, I had several.
1:11.3	I started out as a product demonstrator and they called us.
1:15.8	Oh, really?
1:16.3	Yeah, they called us ambassadors.
1:18.2	We were the ambassadors of toys.
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