"THE STORY OF A MAIN STREET MERCHANT" 1954 J.C. PENNEY DEPARTMENT STORES COMMEMORATIVE FILM 91594

[@DrMatey215]

Amazing piece of history.

[@scratchdog2216]

This is great. What a gem of a production. Bravo.

[@kennethjohnson9370]

This episode brings back many memories growing up in the sixties we would shop at JC Penney at the time they had great merchandise and very good service and friendly people to bad they to close down

[@huf67]

I'm 3 minutes into this film and I'm wondering where these times have gone !!

[@TreeofLiberty1791]

Ohhhh where to start

[@richmodelmaker]

Ask the Democrat and Republican Parties, they run the show….good luck!

[@davenone7312]

I have never seen so many stars in a production like this. Wish I had the time to go thur and introduce them all.

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

Store clerk “Hilda” is played by Virginia Christine (Mrs. Olson from the Folger’s coffee commercials) at 31:25

[@TreeofLiberty1791]

We still have a JC Penny It's like the only store I'll go to the mall for

[@fromthesidelines]

13:52- Jimmie Dodd (the future "Chief Mouseketeer" of "THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB") is "Bill", and Madge Blake appears at 13:52.

[@kellyhill430]

This j.c.penny is going places! Where are they now? But hey they had a great run.

[@Richard_K1630]

JC Penney used to be in my area. Then the store closed and re-opened as an outlet store. That's gone now. That part of the mall was knocked down and grounded up.

[@fromthesidelines]

29:14- Robert Foulk, veteran character actor who portrayed a *lot* of cops- and people in authority- appears at 29:15.

[@sugarplum5824]

I worked retail full time back in the 80s and couldn't afford a bare bones apartment with a roommate. Some nights I didn't eat because I couldn't afford food. One of the merchants I worked for was J. C. Pennney's. It's no wonder there's a labor shortage when full time employees aren't paid a living wage.

[@davenone7312]

@sugar plum Not every job is a living wage job nor ever intended to be! Want a living wage job earn it! Now that women have entered the workforce in droves it made our economy a two full time wage earning society making nearly any single job fall far short of a living wage period!

[@sugarplum5824]

@@davenone7312 Bless your heart. If one is working full time, one should be able to support themselves. I wasn't raising children or paying off a mortgage or new car. I was sharing a living space and all expenses yet still could not make ends meet. Simply basic survival needs for one person were impossible to attain.

[@fromthesidelines]

35:01- "Hilda" is Virginia Christine- who'd use a similar accent as "Mrs. Olson" in Folger's coffee commercials from the 1960's through the 1980's.

[@Plus_P_Plus]

This is an artifact from when America was great.

[@bradjohnston8193]

Swedes aplenty in this film. Mrs. Olson is in it, and the needlepoint at the beginning says "to travel is to learn". Growing up in Minnesota was great in the old days. Not like today.

[@tomservo56954]

Then why was it in the same place for 37 years before she bought it?

[@Johnny_Tambourine]

20:45 Great advice that you won't hear these days. The whole film is about a long gone era when corporations like Amazon, Google & KZbin didn't ooze evil.

[@ekcamelot]

Nonesense. This was just propaganda of the day.

[@jethro1963]

@@ekcamelot Indoctrinated much?

[@jma8352]

so sad how far down we have gone

[@FromSagansStardust]

Ah, I hear Lt Tragg & expect Perry Mason to walk in!

[@tomservo56954]

Well, he WAS dealing with someone who had planned to be a lawyer...

[@mikedrown2721]

There's Ellen Miller from Lassie and Lt. Tragg from Perry Mason

[@BELCAN57]

"Hilda" is Mrs. Olsson from the old Folgers ads.

[@davenone7312]

What a small store! Especially to bring in the equivalent of in todays money over $14,000 dollars on new years eve!

[@idiotwind2248]

1952 , looking back to at great days of the past & looking forward to the future. We get it.. When POC couldn't shop in & couldn't get any employment in stores like this. This story of white economic,s in the retail business., circa 1950. After WW2... Anyone who questions the way systemic racism works , just needs to find youtubes documentation of these type of practice, s of the "Good old Days"

[@BELCAN57]

Back in the day when retail was a CAREER. Nowadays all these companies want is a few low cost drones that'll rake in more dough for corporate.

[@TreeofLiberty1791]

Well you voted for politicians that over regulated every Industry, that comes with a cost. No one to blame but yourself bud.

[@jagboy69]

look how skinny Roscoe P Coltrain was! (James Best)

[@donaldcarter4324]

I was a Dukes of Hazard fan and didn't catch that LOL 😂

[@jagboy69]

@@donaldcarter4324 You'll see him as a rock n roller on The andy Griffith show too. He drives a sweet SL Mercedes. Then gets it repo'd.🤦‍♂️

[@tomservo56954]

@@donaldcarter4324 The voice had the same qualities...

[@donaldcarter4324]

Come to think 🤔 of it I do remember Roscoe on an episode of Andy Griffith!

[@donaldcarter4324]

I did meet Enos at the world of wheels auto show in Charleston S C. 1982 Tweekey from Buck Roger's was there too.

[@Playsinvain]

Honor, confidence, service and achievements….I’m a liberal who says…yes!

[@Plus_P_Plus]

This guy has Jimmy Stewart vibes.

[@kellyhill430]

Jeff is ROSCOE P. COLTRAIN on the dukes of Hazzard. Coot coot

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

1952, not 1954.

[@Playsinvain]

Telegrams are great plot twist devices

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[@ekcamelot]

Hilarious content.

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[@tomservo56954]

Even with makeup, Jan Clayton doesn't look credible as a grandmother--especially for the 50's.

[@kellyhill430]

The old manager would have been fired for sexual harassment today. He said that wo.an was beautiful then he touched her without being given permission. Don't we live in a much better time now? Not exactly.

[@ekcamelot]

Yeah, we kind of do. Things are much better now, in so many ways. Including opportunities for women nonexistent then.

[@kellyhill430]

@@ekcamelot yeah your right. Sometimes it's easy to forget that these are heavily romanticized and written and approved by the corporation that is funding it. They had just as many problems as we have today the only thing about that Era is they didn't talk about it. It's amazing to watch an old educati[al film about drug use in the 40s. I'm not talking about Marijuana cause they were way off base about that but heroin use. I was surprised that heroin and cocaine were even a thing in the 40s but there are films about ther use in the 1st and 2nd world War. So even though some of their problems were the same and some different they had problems just the same. Notice how diverse the cast of this film were ? Not very much diversity in these corporation films but watch the drug films and its quit diverse so even when they were trying to be educational they were sending a message loud and clear very racist films .

[@bradjohnston8193]

I miss the old days, but not the rampant piggery that went with them. I don't like Feminists, but even a busted clock is right twice a day.

[@tomservo56954]

@@ekcamelot Today you can see pictures of women and non-Caucasians on the manager's wall

[@tomservo56954]

Even today she knew he was not being untoward...she would likely correct him if she did feel a little uncomfortable.