Making Macy's | If at First You Don't Succeed | 1
Business Movers
Wondery
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
After a series of failed enterprises in California and Massachusetts, Rowland Macy launches his latest retail store in New York – in the fast-growing metropolis he finds not only success at last, but also a new family to take his legacy forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can listen to BusinessMovers ad free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:05.0 | Download the app today. It's late summer 1858 on 6th Avenue in New York City. |
| 0:28.0 | 36 year old Roland Husse Macy is a man in a hurry. |
| 0:32.0 | The sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians and |
| 0:34.9 | shoe shine boys, street vendors and flower girls. But Roland marches along at |
| 0:39.7 | such a pace and with such determination that his wife Louisa struggles to keep up. |
| 0:44.0 | Roland, slow down. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm sorry my darling, here, take my arm. |
| 0:48.0 | And have you dragged me off my feet? No, thank you. |
| 0:50.0 | Whatever you want to show me, it cannot be this urgent. |
| 0:53.6 | But it is, and it's just around the corner. |
| 0:55.9 | What is it? |
| 0:56.9 | Our new store. |
| 0:58.9 | Roland points across the road. |
| 1:00.9 | One door down from the corner between 14th Street and 6th Avenue stands a slender four-story brick building. |
| 1:07.0 | Isn't it wonderful? We were so lucky to find it. |
| 1:10.0 | The pair wait for a horse-drawn carriage to clatter past, |
| 1:13.5 | Then Roland leads his wife across the road to their new store. |
| 1:17.0 | What do you think? |
| 1:18.0 | R. H. Macy, dealer and dry goods, carpets, oil cloths, matings. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm already having the sign made. goods, carpets, oil cloths, matings. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm already having the sign made. |
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