Anyone Remember GEMCO Stores?

That picture is of the store on Broadway in Sacramento CA. You can see the TOWER theater in the background. It is a TARGET now.
Back when GEMCO was around, they required membership to enter. My friends and I used to just blend into a group of people, sometimes families that went through.
Once at about the age of 10 I merged in with a black family and really thought I'd get stopped. I made it through.