On the Lighter Side of things.
 

Here is a real gem. This contains excerpts from a 1977 JC Penny's catalog, very funny.



http://www.crewchiefpro.com/jcpenny.pdf



Don

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Dude, your frickin' funny! Far out! I seriously laughed my *** off on your commentaries. And did you find the lingerie section?

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Don--Wore suits just like those when I sold new Fords in the seventies---probably still have 'em--you know they are going to make a comeback someday soon.............

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What's wrong with that stuff? I thought it looked pretty good. I think I had that much hair back then. Does anyone remember (other than me) when J.C. Penny used a pull cable system to make change? You went to a counter, the clerk prepared the sales ticket and put your money and the ticket in the little container (about the size of a large coffee mug) which was attached to the cable. The clerk pulled the cable and sent the container along a cable to the second floor where all change was made. Then the upstairs sent the container with the receipt and change. There were probably 10 or 15 cable stations in the store. I am now in the early 50's.

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Did Pennys have an auto department in the mid-'70's, repairs and sold performance parts?

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HEY JEFF, our store was high tech. They had the same deal, only it was run with air.

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Don, that is some funny **** right there! Laughed so hard I stopped breathin' for a couple of minutes. My wife will be sending you the ER bill.

Jeff, I remember something similar. Only my recollection is of those vacuum tubes like bank drive-up windows use. Or maybe they still use those in big retail stores. We ain't got any here in the boondocks.

Myron, you bet they did! I drove over to Salem to buy two pairs of slicks at JCP back in the early '70's. They worked pretty good too. One pair was 6&5/8ths wide with "cheater" grooves in 'em. I was told they were made by Kelly Springfield.

Don, you realize the Writers Guild is on strike don't ya'? You could probably sell that stuff. I know that I'm never throwing out another catalog, that's for sure!

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The worse part is we thought clothes like were cool.

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Doug,

What even worse is that in spite of those clothes the sexual revolution was at its peak in the seventies. The only thing I can figure is that the clothes were so horrific that people were willing to do anything or anyone to get out of them.

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Hey, I graduated from high school in 1977............... What the heck were we thinking???? I think I tossed my leisure suit years ago. Those wide collered silk shirts were way cool. I may have some of those around still. The wife may have tossed those........