Our JC Penny store in Huntington Park, Cal looked very much the same in the 1950's and 60's. Our store had a See's Candy booth downstairs in the back! My FAVORITE place! See's Chocolates are still my favorite! All of my clothing as a child came from JC Penny. My Mom did not shop anywhere else for my clothes. They were good well made clothes then too. Penny must have used the original store as a template for the rest. Our other store back then was the "5 and dime" Montgomery "monkey" Wards.... These 2 stores are great memories now six and a half decades later.
As a young child, we had a store like that called the CC Store. I remember they still used that cable system for payment. It was already a very old store back in the early 70's Glad I had a chance to have that memory
As I find myself not feeling well today and probably not gonna be to productive. I have you guys to lighten my day and this video was a much needed medicine. May be watching several of your videos today. Did ya's ever think that you two would be movie stars? Enjoyed the jc penny history and ice crea.cream. what a neat little town.
Oh my goodness what memories thet store brought back. The one I remember was in Hermosa Beach California. It was laid out just like the one you should. I remembor the sales ladies putting the money in the tube and pulling the cord to send it up to the office. I am 85 and I can still recall the clean smell of the merchendise when you entered the store. Thanks so much for the memories they are priceless.
That is really cool about the J. C. Penny’s store. I remember the stores always had a good sporting goods section and a lot of good buys on guns. That was the good days. I believe I could of eat at least two of those ice creams. Around my part of the country, if you can find hand dipped ice cream cones, its five dollars for a humming bird scoop. Good to see you two. It’s amazing, you have to get off in the far off places to find a real store. Take care
I had forgotten about J.C. Penny's carrying sporting goods and firearms. I do remember my dad ordering a rifle and a shotgun from the Sears catalog and just picking them up (1956).
I can remember those cable payment carriers still in service in a couple of stores back in the 60s. There was quite a number of payment points around the stores and the little cable carriers were zipping all around the place. Thanks Rick & Linda, stay safe.
First... What an awesome history lesson on J.C. Penny. So nice his legacy lives on at his very first store. Thanks for sharing that. Now.... Those cones were as you said.... HUGE. Even Linda's kids cone was rather large. 🍦. You only live once. Enjoy everything you can.
I grew up in Independence, MO. My mom would take me to stores like this on the square, most department stores there, had the same layout with the mezzanine in the back. I recall that the Emory Byrd Thayer building, had pneumatic tubes at the cashier’s booth, there was not any cash register there, the clerk would fill out the sales ticket and send it up the tube where it would come back down with any change and a receipt, pretty neat to a 5-year-old like me.
That was SO interesting. My first job out of high school was at Penney's. We had an upstairs just like the one on your video. Fun walk down memory lane. Those ice cream cones looked massive. I'd be willing to give one a go😁. Hoping your weekend is a blessed one.
In the UK they had shops with cables going to the cashier. And some had a vacuum system I think mainly the idea was to stop staff fiddling. Great video.
re: The money and receipt carriers in JC Penney. We live in a house built in 1915, and have several of those wooden cups with clips in our basement. Couldn't figure out what they were until we saw your video!
Never thought history on JCPENNEY would interest me, but that was great. I stepped into my first JCPenney in Thief River Falls MN in the mid 70s and still remember my purchases as a very young teen. Great history.
I don’t remember ever tapping out from ice cream. I sometimes pay for it later though with a distended belly and difficulty breathing but it was so worth it. LOL
Hey U 2 you look Fabulous out in the sun there ! I sit on my computer with my morning Coffee looking out my window at snow and -7 !! Jealous , just a tad , but hey I'm Alive...lol Thanks for sharing your Adventure it warmed me up some.. I 'm trying to scrape up some spare change here to buy some fuel and go get my Deer. I got my draw so need some food . 3 more weeks of the season so see how it goes ?. Our government is Making Life so Very difficult that I just need to get out and vent in Nature like the Good ole Days . Take Care Rick and Linda least I can explore through your journeys . Bonus I say Thank you !
There was a store where I grew up (I'm 63) that had a system like that for handling money. I remember shopping there once or twice. We had a JC Penney but I don't remember the pulley system at Penney's--it was another department store, probably local to our town.
Half a baby size 😂 epic! Hard for me to realize I was born only 55 years after "gunslinger" days! As always-I love learning from you two. Next...😍🤗 🙏✌🌎💞
I would have thought the first store would have been in Missouri since he was born here. But I guess not. Very cool that the first one still exists. Looks vintage. Love it! What a cute little tiny house. I would love that on some land. I'd totally live in it. Haha she has ice cream up to her eye balls. Too funny! I can't eat too much ice cream or I don't feel well the rest of the day. Yeah half the baby doesn't sound real appetizing lol. Great video guys. I love this stop!!
As a kid I remember watching the money trolley going to the office at the local J.C.Penney store. Kemmerer is also where you can go to quarries and dig for fossils. Check out Fossil Butte National Monument. Kemmerer is on my bucket list!
Well I've been watching your channel now for about a year and I find it interesting I'm only 57 years old but you go to places that are really cool and I did not know that JCPenney started in Wyoming my mom used to shop JCPenney for all my school clothes and it was really cool and I thought it was from back east where it started I live in Utah and who would have known that north of where I live is where JCPenney started thank you for taking us there and showing us where it all started!
Great video Rick, If you're ever in Sheridan, WY stop into the old Sheridan Commercial Building ( True Value ), they still have that exact same cable system in there store. Those ice cream cones are great! JT
Gonna have visit the home of JC Penny , awesome video thanks for sharing this. The store reminds me of the Woolworth store in my hometown of Shawnee, Ok. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻
Another great adventure! I’m really enjoying your channel Mr. Rick, so much fun around every bend and dip in the road. Another one of my TH-cam V-loggers (The Carpetbagger) did go to this town and the original JC Penney store. It’s amazing that it started in such a tiny town. I worked at JC Penney in high school in my not so tiny town back east and it was connected to a shopping mall as so many were back then. Anyway that is one HUGE ice cream cone 🍦 holy cow!! Look forward to next video!
I remember the old Montgomery Wards store in our old downtown and they had similar system for sending a tube to the mezzanine for cash change and chart accounts. Those ice cream cones made the trip….
Our Montgomery Ward was like that too. It was the first pneumatic tube I ever saw and was fascinating I went halfway up the stairs once to find my aunt, everybody knew what I was doing, other kids must have done the same thing.
We have a place in CT that has huge ice cream shop. They serve the biggest ice cream cones I’ve ever seen. It’s a farmer house shop and they sell milk and cheese. My husband and I try to go once a year in the summer for their ice cream cones.
:) THANKS MUCH for another GREAT Share, video and history! Who would have thought that original JC Penney store was there AND still operating! ALL THE BEST and good think I am not an ice cream fan :) Eat for meeeee, and Cheers :)
Hey Rick just wanted to tell you we bought 2 majicycle bikes A Ocelet pro and à Cruiser Pro after your review We love them can't wait to take them coming soon !
A very interesting video, you could only wonder with the J.C. Penny success, was partly because of his innovative money handling, the system seems fool proof in many ways. Looking forward to your next video.
Our JC Penny store in Huntington Park, Cal looked very much the same in the 1950's and 60's. Our store had a See's Candy booth downstairs in the back! My FAVORITE place! See's Chocolates are still my favorite! All of my clothing as a child came from JC Penny. My Mom did not shop anywhere else for my clothes. They were good well made clothes then too. Penny must have used the original store as a template for the rest. Our other store back then was the "5 and dime" Montgomery "monkey" Wards.... These 2 stores are great memories now six and a half decades later.
It's great when we can step back into the past, in real time, by visiting these historical department stores.
As a young child, we had a store like that called the CC Store. I remember they still used that cable system for payment. It was already a very old store back in the early 70's Glad I had a chance to have that memory
As I find myself not feeling well today and probably not gonna be to productive. I have you guys to lighten my day and this video was a much needed medicine. May be watching several of your videos today. Did ya's ever think that you two would be movie stars? Enjoyed the jc penny history and ice crea.cream. what a neat little town.
When it comes to life, you never know what's around the next corner. We're having a lot of fun with this channel!
Oh my goodness what memories thet store brought back. The one I remember was in Hermosa Beach California. It was laid out just like the one you should. I remembor the sales ladies putting the money in the tube and pulling the cord to send it up to the office. I am 85 and I can still recall the clean smell of the merchendise when you entered the store. Thanks so much for the memories they are priceless.
Love your videos, I learn so much, it is like I am with you ❤
Love that!
That is really cool about the J. C. Penny’s store. I remember the stores always had a good sporting goods section and a lot of good buys on guns. That was the good days. I believe I could of eat at least two of those ice creams. Around my part of the country, if you can find hand dipped ice cream cones, its five dollars for a humming bird scoop. Good to see you two. It’s amazing, you have to get off in the far off places to find a real store. Take care
I had forgotten about J.C. Penny's carrying sporting goods and firearms. I do remember my dad ordering a rifle and a shotgun from the Sears catalog and just picking them up (1956).
I enjoyed this episode of the first J.C. Penny's store and the biggest ice cream cones I've ever seen.
In the 1950’s in Fairfield, Ca there was a JCP with the same layout. Ahhh, the memories.
I can remember those cable payment carriers still in service in a couple of stores back in the 60s. There was quite a number of payment points around the stores and the little cable carriers were zipping all around the place.
Thanks Rick & Linda, stay safe.
Stay cool down there.
First... What an awesome history lesson on J.C. Penny. So nice his legacy lives on at his very first store. Thanks for sharing that. Now.... Those cones were as you said.... HUGE. Even Linda's kids cone was rather large. 🍦. You only live once. Enjoy everything you can.
Baby cone for me next time and a half baby for Linda, that single is too big!
I grew up in Independence, MO. My mom would take me to stores like this on the square, most department stores there, had the same layout with the mezzanine in the back. I recall that the Emory Byrd Thayer building, had pneumatic tubes at the cashier’s booth, there was not any cash register there, the clerk would fill out the sales ticket and send it up the tube where it would come back down with any change and a receipt, pretty neat to a 5-year-old like me.
That sounds exactly like the JC Penney store. It must have been a "thing" in retail. What a cool memory.
@@gonagain JCPenny's name was Jame Cash Penny
That’s awesome the J C Penney is still in operation. Great video. Couple more places to add to my bucket list.👍🏻
Linda was talking to the clerks there and they are trained both as clerks and museum experts because the store is both.
My first job after getting home from the Army back in the mid 70’s was at J C Penney. They laid me off after six months. I’m not bitter.🤣
That was SO interesting. My first job out of high school was at Penney's. We had an upstairs just like the one on your video. Fun walk down memory lane. Those ice cream cones looked massive. I'd be willing to give one a go😁. Hoping your weekend is a blessed one.
Now you made want some ice cream! I'll have to check the freezer to see if my granddaughters left me any...
@@gonagain Lol, common over, we have plenty😅
Wow, I did not know that about JC Penny, thanks! You can’t bet that wonderful lunch for $4.00 each.
Charles Kuralt would be proud.
Well done Rick.
P. S., for me, that is High Praise.
My best to you and Linda.
Thanks for saying that. I always enjoyed his programs.
In the UK they had shops with cables going to the cashier. And some had a vacuum system I think mainly the idea was to stop staff fiddling. Great video.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Thanks!
Thanks, Son of Dad!
Loved that old store. I remember shopping for school clothes at Penny’s
Awesome video... I totally enjoyed the history lesson and humor 😄
Thanks, Teresa. I hope your ready for winter, but I'm not!
Very Cool!!
When we were there a few years ago, the store was closed. Thanks for showing us the inside.
Loved your video, please add more of Miss Linda because I love her sense of humor and your fun banter with her!! 👍🏼
Thanks, Karen, I'll try! See you on the next one.
re: The money and receipt carriers in JC Penney. We live in a house built in 1915, and have several of those wooden cups with clips in our basement. Couldn't figure out what they were until we saw your video!
Wow, they must have been in common use at one time! I just thought they were particular to that first store.
@@gonagain We're assuming they came from the local Montgomery Wards.
Never thought history on JCPENNEY would interest me, but that was great. I stepped into my first JCPenney in Thief River Falls MN in the mid 70s and still remember my purchases as a very young teen. Great history.
I don’t remember ever tapping out from ice cream. I sometimes pay for it later though with a distended belly and difficulty breathing but it was so worth it. LOL
Thanks for the belly laugh!
We had a pulley system like that in Victorville California. That was in 1970's.
Hey U 2 you look Fabulous out in the sun there !
I sit on my computer with my morning Coffee looking out my window at snow and -7 !!
Jealous , just a tad , but hey I'm Alive...lol
Thanks for sharing your Adventure it warmed me up some..
I 'm trying to scrape up some spare change here to buy some fuel and go get my Deer.
I got my draw so need some food .
3 more weeks of the season so see how it goes ?.
Our government is Making Life so Very difficult that I just need to get out and vent in Nature like the Good ole Days .
Take Care Rick and Linda least I can explore through your journeys .
Bonus I say Thank you !
Good morning, Murray! We're having coffee with you, hope you get out and bag a deer to fill your freezer. Thanks for spending your morning with us.
@@gonagain No Worries There, Your Great people Take Care and Enjoy ALL .
The JC Penny store was very cool.
Great job , Rick. Loved the J.C. Penney info. Drive safe.
Thanks, will do!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
There was a store where I grew up (I'm 63) that had a system like that for handling money. I remember shopping there once or twice. We had a JC Penney but I don't remember the pulley system at Penney's--it was another department store, probably local to our town.
Half a baby size 😂 epic! Hard for me to realize I was born only 55 years after "gunslinger" days! As always-I love learning from you two. Next...😍🤗 🙏✌🌎💞
I never thought about that, but you sure put it into perspective,
Enjoyed the video! Safe travels and look forward to the next one. 😊
Oh man, those ice cream cones were massive! They look so good!
They were! Thanks for watching, Cynthia.
I would have thought the first store would have been in Missouri since he was born here. But I guess not. Very cool that the first one still exists. Looks vintage. Love it! What a cute little tiny house. I would love that on some land. I'd totally live in it. Haha she has ice cream up to her eye balls. Too funny! I can't eat too much ice cream or I don't feel well the rest of the day. Yeah half the baby doesn't sound real appetizing lol. Great video guys. I love this stop!!
I would love to live in that house myself. Our place has gotten too big with it's upkeep. Thanks for watching and we'll see you on the road someday.
Very cool seeing the JC penny store ! Thanks for the history! I’ve cream looked yummy!! 👍😁
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tip about Farson Mercantile.
My butt is usually pretty tired by the time I reach part of 191.
I will stop in there next time!
I remember the cable system from when I was a boy in the 1950’s the local Penney’s, CR Anthony’s and The Fire Store all had them
That's interesting. I didn't know they were in such high use. The other purpose for them was to try and eliminate employee theft.
As a kid I remember watching the money trolley going to the office at the local J.C.Penney store. Kemmerer is also where you can go to quarries and dig for fossils. Check out Fossil Butte National Monument. Kemmerer is on my bucket list!
Years ago we went to the Fossil Monument and it's fantastic! We decided to save that for another video in the future.
@@gonagain Hope to see you there!
Loved your video, you guys always make me smile.
😊 thank you, Teresa!
Well I've been watching your channel now for about a year and I find it interesting I'm only 57 years old but you go to places that are really cool and I did not know that JCPenney started in Wyoming my mom used to shop JCPenney for all my school clothes and it was really cool and I thought it was from back east where it started I live in Utah and who would have known that north of where I live is where JCPenney started thank you for taking us there and showing us where it all started!
You're welcome, Kenneth. Thanks for watching!
Great video Rick,
If you're ever in Sheridan, WY stop into the old Sheridan Commercial Building ( True Value ), they still have that exact same cable system in there store.
Those ice cream cones are great!
JT
I never noticed that system before, but now I'll know what it is if I see it.
@@gonagain
I had never seen one either until we moved to Sheridan.
Got my breezer hat,love it.Cold in Tucson this morning 38 brrrrrrrrr
Now you need a felt one to match for those cold days.
@@gonagain It's on the way !
Gonna have visit the home of JC Penny , awesome video thanks for sharing this. The store reminds me of the Woolworth store in my hometown of Shawnee, Ok. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻
We were going to ask if they had pie, but then you surprised us with Ice Cream.
Your Videos never Disappoint.
Another great adventure! I’m really enjoying your channel Mr. Rick, so much fun around every bend and dip in the road. Another one of my TH-cam V-loggers (The Carpetbagger) did go to this town and the original JC Penney store. It’s amazing that it started in such a tiny town. I worked at JC Penney in high school in my not so tiny town back east and it was connected to a shopping mall as so many were back then. Anyway that is one HUGE ice cream cone 🍦 holy cow!! Look forward to next video!
Thank you for taking the time to share your memory. I'll check out the Carpetbagger.
I remember the old Montgomery Wards store in our old downtown and they had similar system for sending a tube to the mezzanine for cash change and chart accounts. Those ice cream cones made the trip….
Our Montgomery Ward was like that too. It was the first pneumatic tube I ever saw and was fascinating
I went halfway up the stairs once to find my aunt, everybody knew what I was doing, other kids must have done the same thing.
Yes, they did. Go to Farson, WY! Nice folks there too.
We have a place in CT that has huge ice cream shop. They serve the biggest ice cream cones I’ve ever seen. It’s a farmer house shop and they sell milk and cheese. My husband and I try to go once a year in the summer for their ice cream cones.
Only once a year?! Yeah, I can't do that very often either, but it sure is fun.
:) THANKS MUCH for another GREAT Share, video and history! Who would have thought that original JC Penney store was there AND still operating! ALL THE BEST and good think I am not an ice cream fan :) Eat for meeeee, and Cheers :)
That's funny, Marty. Come along with us and I'll try to eat your share!
Hey Rick just wanted to tell you we bought 2 majicycle bikes A Ocelet pro and à Cruiser Pro after your review We love them can't wait to take them coming soon !
Both are really great bikes!
A very nice video guys. Hope to get that way someday. My brother lives in Rock Springs
Wyoming is a great state to live in. It also has some nice places to visit!
My folks called it the working man’s store. My dad bought all his work clothes
Not these days I'm afraid. I think they'd do better if they went back to that.
I wish I was there I could of finished the ice cream you left
I didn't leave too much behind!
A very interesting video, you could only wonder with the J.C. Penny success, was partly because of his innovative money handling, the system seems fool proof in many ways. Looking forward to your next video.
Now I know what I want for Xmas... A slingshot money machine!
And a half a baby... 🤔
Be a good girl and Santa may come to visit!
@@gonagain hot dog!
You need some pie with that ice cream, I got my RO filter from Itehil yesterday
We used ours a lot on the last trip and you'll be seeing it in the videos.
Rick , To get the half baby cone your name has to be Solomon. :-)
Good one!
No pie?🤣🤣🤣
There's a lot of pie coming up in the next series!
Have you stopped in to Neilson’s in Kemmerer?
No, but we go through there often and can check it out. It looks like an interesting store.
Even the baby cone is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haahaahaahaahaahaa
JC Penny....."Long Time Gone" ? I scream, you scream, we all scream ..................! Yea!
I could go for some of that ice cream again now.
I almost went in to a diabetic coma just looking at those cones
Tapping out HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
$4 lunch!
If you get half a baby Want the half that smiles
Oooooh.
far out