The JC Penney First Store and Homestead in Kemmerer, Wyoming
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Kemmerer, Wyoming is a coal mining town located in the south western part of the state. It was in this small town where a 27 year old James Cash Penney started his first store in 1902, beginning an empire that would become one of the largest retailers in the United States.
In Kemmerer there are a number of sites linked to JC Penney, and in this video we explore the city's Triangle Park, where we can find a statute of Mr. Penney, the location of the his second store, his home, and the JCPenney mother store, which is still in operation today and looks much as it did almost 100 years ago.
Historic photographs from wyomingtalesandtrails.com
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Every week, you show us a little history that is nearly lost. That’s really cool and is really appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I bought a swimming suit there with my Dad around 1959. The trolleys were operational. My swimsuit went up the trolley in a basket with the money and returned in a basket with the receipt and the change. I had never seen such a wonderful gizmo.
It's so nice to see someone giving love to my hometown ❤️
Seeing the store I can smell it through the video. It's weird, but that place has the most unique smell that I love.
I was first in Kemmerer in the 1960's on vacation with my family. Dad always took us to Wyoming. It's a very nice small town.
Wonderful that you were able to add the personal connection of your grandmother.
My visits to Kemmerer and Penny’s Number 1 seem flat in comparison with your rich story.
Thank you for your happy story!
Hamilton Missouri is James Cash Penney boyhood home and museum. This town is so cute. It is also home of the Missouri Star Quilt Company. You can buy fabric right from the company and most everything else they sell. They also have the Missouri Quilt Museum. Home to largest spool of thread. The town has several beautiful murals on the old buildings. It’s called Quilt Town USA
Man! You really put on some miles with this trip! Never stopped to think about where JC Penney started. Love love love the old house though. Always something about entering those old structures and how they might have looked with period pieces. And the hole in the floor is such a real little touch that they added.
Yeah, it just so happened that the fastest way to eastern Colorado from Salt Lake was cutting through Wyoming, so had to make this side trip.
The Clark County Museum here in Las Vegas has a nice handful of old historic houses (that were also moved from their original locations) with period furnishings inside. They did a really nice job setting them all up.
Crazy to learn about! My grandmother worked for JC Penny for 40 years
Wow, that's quite the run at JC Penney. Its amazing it has been around so long.
Very heartfelt look. Thanks.
Our pleasure!
Reminds me of the JCPenney in Bishop CA which is still in operation. There’s a vintage JC Penney in Bisbee AZ that’s been converted to a local business
The Bishop one was gone last time I drove through unfortunately.
@@SidetrackAdventures we were last up that way pre-pandemic so it isn’t surprising. Beautiful old brick building with tile and moldings.
Ive been through Kemmerer in February and that place is like frozen tundra!
I can only imagine how cold it gets there.
I was thrilled to visit this location. My family shopped at JC Penny in San Diego for years. My husband and I were in Kemperer several years ago. We retired to Oregon so decided to follow the Oregon Trail. We are life-long learners who love to stop in off the road places. I enjoyed shopping in the store, many bargains. But, mainly I wanted to see if the money was still sent to the second floor. My father had worked at a JC Penny in the Boulder CO area and had told his daughters about how the money was sent to the office. When my family first shopped in the University Ave. location in San Diego in 1952, a pneumatic system was used. The canister quickly returned with your change. Having been fortunate enough to travel all over the world, we still love our country the best. Be safe, Steve.
What a cozy looking lil home. Thank you for the history lesson and tour
Nice story about your Grandma. Very cool store. There was an older Penney's in the town square of Prescott, AZ, now it's a restaurant and shops. The pictures remind me a lot of that store that we shopped at when vacationing in that small town. It was originally built by a local family and was their department store.
I wonder how many of the old downtown Penney's locations are still around. There was one in Bishop but it closed not too long ago.
Nope first one was is WY
My mother worked in his store in Jacksonville Fla when she was 20 yrs old ....
Actually drove through there on a business trip through Wyoming. Thank you for the great info
Its a cool little town. Lots of historic buildings to look at.
That was a very interesting piece of history. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for the video, over the years I driving through Kemerer,Wy and always wanted to check the JC.Pennys museum, THANK YOU,SAFE TRAVELS.
Our pleasure!
I think the idea that your Grandmother heard that bell when she was a little girl. Pretty cool!!! Thanks for your channel. Its relaxing to me, listening to all the spots you visit.
Great place to work !I was and associate for 42 years.
We had a JC Penney in my town, right next door was a vandekamps Bakery. Now the JC Penney is a pawn shop and the bakery is a parking lot.
I was born in Kemmerer too. Only stayed a week though. Mom was traveling and the car broke down. She stressed out and I got out. Only been back to pass through.
Very Cool an looks like another place I’ll have to visit. Growing up in Vancouver WA we had a store named ‘CC store’…least that’s the name I remember and it finally closed in the early 1980’s. Anyways, they had that same wire an balcony set up. The gal would write down all the info on a ticket (I think they did all the totaling an then sent it back)…you’d give the the gal the money/check/credit card an it went back to the balcony an came back with change it what not. Great memories forsure!
Birthplace of mom is far more important than Penney's first store. But nice to hear about the store my mother used to frequent when I was a kid in Albany, Oregon.
Great vido. Your grandma, her 2nd grade school bell and JC Penney store all in one little Wyoming town.
Thank you for our jobs at JCP, Mr. JCP♥
Nice job on the story! How cool you lived there!
The Savory Museum towards the Colorado/Wyoming border is another great place to visit!
That there's the dry goods store. I think it was the '70s when an in-law asked my mom for some advice: The in-law's father, who was losing some of his faculties in old age, asked her to go to "the dry goods store" & get him some new overalls. She had to ask my mom what that was, and mom told her to go to J.C. Penney's. Mom also had some relatives in rural PA when she was little who still had one of those hand-crank phones. Their phone number was two longs and a short.
I loved this episode! But, Steve, you should have co-featured where your grandma lived and a picture of her! Ok, back to my bingewatching your vids!
Another great video! Love me some J. C. Penny. Safe travels.
Thank you!
Very cool and cool the store is still open..Safe travels..
Shootout to grandma! Lol
Nice video, crazy to think of how old J.C Penny's is.
Yeah, its crazy that has been around so long.
@@SidetrackAdventures Especially, considering so many of there competitors have gone like Foleys and Mirvens.
I gassed up in Kemmerer in early August on the way to South Pass City, WY.
The 3rd Golden Rule store was in McGill Nevada, closed long ago, but still standing.
My Aunt worked for the Casper Star Tribune, Elona Kearns, and was sent to Kemmerer to do a story on J. C. Penny. My Aunt later moved to Jamesport, Missouri where she and my Uncle operated the Tri County Tribune in Jamesport, Mo. She said she had stopped at a small store with a cafe one day. She was at a table when a man wearing just coveralls and no shoes had walked in. The owner had rushed over and grabbed the bearded older man and shoved him out the door yelling at him, no shirt or shoes, no service. My Aunt hurried over to the owner and said, you just tossed J. C. Penny out of your store.
This was sometime after he had moved back to Missouri, and may had retire. Maybe the 1940s or 1950s. Bob Specht of Casper.
My son and his wife just moved there. Thanks
Seems like a nice, quiet town from the little we were there.
That's the area I used to hunt deer and elk. Very fond memories.
So nice to hear "Kemmerer" pronounced correctly!
Luckily my grandmother had talked about it enough over the years.
Never knew about James Cash Penny! Awesome video!
Thank you, we appreciate it.
Used to drive thru there often on US30 before the bypass.
Been by several times in a truck just couldn’t stop
Nice tour! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Wow That was really cool. Thanks
Another great vid! Nice Job!
Thanks again!
That was nice. Thanks. 👍☮️🌞❤
Glad you enjoyed it.
My husband used to get the best railfroad looking cover-alls from this j.c. Penny story , wondering if it's still open ? Nìce coverage of a Wyoming town, live outside of Cody 10 miles or so.
Excellent☺️
I visited the JC Penny store.
I was born in kemmerer and so was alot of my family
I’m from that area wow
Great video
Thanks!
As a kid in the 60's-70's was told he used to tithe to his church...not 10% but 90%.
DANG wyoming? im glad you are going farther but soon your gonna be in NYC!
I was last in NYC in 2009 or 2010. I wish I was filming videos then because I got a private tour of the Mad Magazine offices lol.
Need to fix the cane seat on that chair in the pantry.
Hey just so you know, you might want to visit Point Mugu missile park off of PCH in Ventura and get up close and personal with decommissioned cruise missiles, F14 Tomcat and an F4 Fantom.
Also there is a 100+ foot Marilyn Monroe statue in Palm Spring.
The Point Mugu site was originally for Nike Anti Ballistic Missiles. That was when the government believed in defending the US. The ill conceived Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties (SALT) put an end to that under Nixon/Kissinger/Ford and the sites were decommissioned in the mid 1970's. I grew up just theee blocks away from the one in Redondo Beach, CA (unless it crossed into the Torrance border). We didn't even know it was there until long after decommissioning, though we drove by it many times during an average week. In an aerospace area (I long worked as a materials engineer/scientist in the field) you learn not to ask too many questions. We still had hidden emplacements from WWII into the 1980's at least. It's a nature park now and the silos are filled up. Point Mugu is one of the best places to see these. Huell Howser did an episode on this.
Ghost of Jerry Buss: Most famous? Whatever, how many championships did he have? Yeah that's what I thought.
Kemmerer so cold extra er.......been there few times.
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Levi’s originated Kemmer
I bought a shotgun from JCPENNEY'S
Golden Rule went bankrupted.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fine people of Wyoming thanks for getting rid of that evil Witch Liz Cheney !!!!
If witches defend the Constitution, we need more witches.