55: JC Penney Becomes Rich *and* Cool (Part 3)
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Currey, Mary Elizabeth. Creating an American Institution: The Merchandising Genius of J.C. Penney. Dissertations-G, 1993.
Kruger, David Delbert. J.C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
Penney, James Cash. Fifty Years with the Golden Rule. Harper and Brothers, 1950.
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| 0:00.0 | Here ye, hear ye. You are listening to an old-timey podcast. I'm Norman Caruso. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm Kristen Caruso. And on this episode, it's part three of my series on J.C. Penny. |
| 0:13.3 | Norm, I'm in no mood. |
| 0:15.7 | Oh, should we cancel this recording? |
| 0:19.0 | Ideally, yes. But here I soldier on. Are we cancel this recording? Ideally, yes. |
| 0:23.1 | But here I soldier on. |
| 0:25.9 | Are we recording this early in the morning? |
| 0:27.6 | No, that was terrible. |
| 0:29.6 | We did that once and we shan't do it again. |
| 0:31.2 | But I'll tell you what we're doing right now. |
| 0:34.6 | We went to a graduation party, very lovely. |
| 0:39.3 | Afterward, we went out for a lovely meal with our friends Kate and Tim. |
| 0:45.9 | Did I just have a gigantic cheeseburger covered in onion rings with a side of tater tots and a cocktail? |
| 0:47.1 | Yes, I did. |
| 0:47.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:50.7 | I feel like a gigantic brick. |
| 0:53.5 | And now I'm expected to podcast. |
| 0:56.6 | You've got the idas. You're kind of sleepy. |
| 1:02.1 | You know, coal miners are listening to this and they're like, she's got a tough job. |
| 1:07.9 | You know, it's where we went to that graduation party. We just showed up at some high school kids' house. Norman! Oh, who's graduating? |
| 1:11.2 | We knew that child fair in square. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah, we did that. |
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