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This Was J.C. Penney: A Century Of James Penney’S Main Street Department Stores In The Rocky Mountain West, David Delbert Kruger
This Was J.C. Penney: A Century Of James Penney’S Main Street Department Stores In The Rocky Mountain West, David Delbert Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
The article discusses the history of the department store chain J.C. Penney in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. West, particularly focusing on Montana. It comments on founder James Cash Penney's early retailing efforts and his time working for the Golden Rule chain of stores. The author examines the configuration, size, and logos of J.C. Penney stores, and describes the shift in the location of stores from main streets to shopping malls. The impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s is also addressed.
Security In A Fully Functioning Academic Library During Renovation, David Delbert Kruger, Sandra M. Barstow
Security In A Fully Functioning Academic Library During Renovation, David Delbert Kruger, Sandra M. Barstow
David Delbert Kruger
The University of Wyoming Libraries are currently experiencing a major expansion and renovation of the William Robertson Coe Library, the flagship library. From the standpoint of security, the challenges of creating a new addition adjacent to the existing structure are minor in comparison to the difficulties of renovating the existing building in several phases while providing a safe working environment for the library employees, providing patrons with access to the collections and technological infrastructure of a re- search library, and enabling construction personnel to work safely in various parts of the building at all hours. Communication is key to coordinating …
Idaho And The Development Of The J.C.Penney Chain, David Delbert Kruger
Idaho And The Development Of The J.C.Penney Chain, David Delbert Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
Aside from Joe Albertson’s supermarket, most retail chains in Idaho today seem to have very little in common with Idaho’s past. Department stores like Falk’s, C.C. Anderson, and even Bon Marché have all given way to ubiquitous names like Macy’s, Target, and Walmart, and the thought of any national department store ever lining the Main Streets of Idaho’s small towns is almost an absurd concept. At first glance, the current JCPenney stores in Boise, Pocatello, and Idaho Falls seamlessly blend into this postmodern retail landscape. However, their modern and massive mall locations belie the fact that in 1902, the first …
Earl Corder Sams And The Rise Of J. C. Penney, David Delbert Kruger
Earl Corder Sams And The Rise Of J. C. Penney, David Delbert Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
As the Union Pacific train carried him across the Great Plains in the summer of 1897, James Cash Penney had no choice but to see Kansas as a four-hundred-mile means to a better end. Just four days earlier his hometown doctor, and subsequently his widowed mother, had ordered him to leave the familiar confines of northwest Missouri for the dryer climates of the West. Penney was only twenty-one at the time and heading to Colorado without any thoughts or dreams of someday owning a chain of department stores.
Main Street Empire: J.C.Penney In Nebraska, David Delbert Kruger
Main Street Empire: J.C.Penney In Nebraska, David Delbert Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
The April 1914 opening of downtown Grand Island’s J. C. Penney store was as significant for the company’s thirty-eight-year-old founder as it was for the crowd waiting along the Third Street sidewalk. For James Cash Penney, the Grand Island opening marked not only his first store in Nebraska, but also the closest he had come to operating near his hometown of Hamilton, Missouri. Nebraska’s first J. C. Penney store was also, arguably, the first of the franchise’s stores in the entire Midwest, as the next closest location was over three hundred miles away in Fort Morgan, Colorado. 1 For nearly …
“It Pays To Shop At Penney’S”: A National Department Store On The Main Streets Of Arkansas, David Delbert Kruger
“It Pays To Shop At Penney’S”: A National Department Store On The Main Streets Of Arkansas, David Delbert Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
ON THE MORNING JAMES CASH PENNEY opened his first Arkansas store in 1923, the mastermind of Walmart was just five years old, and the founder of Dillard’s had yet to see his ninth birthday. At the same time, the lives of Arkansas department store magnates Joseph Pfeifer, Gus Blass, and Mark Matthias Cohn were all coming to an end, while prominent national retailers such as Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward were still only selling merchandise via catalog, with no conventional department store presence. The very idea of a national department store chain operating in Arkansas, much less a store that …