Turn-Style, Mom and Me

Store sale flyers. Every week, tons of these things show up –
crammed in the mailbox, stuffed in the Sunday paper, sliding out onto the
living room floor. Do people ever save these things? I certainly don’t.   



Well, except for this one, that is, and not for the reasons
you’d think. Mod 70’s styles at crazy 70’s prices. A long gone classic discount
chain, Turn-Style, and a great

The Modern Side of J.C. Penney

“Picked at random, a single J.C. Penney Co. store can be a remarkably unimpressive establishment.” So went the opening line of a long and generally laudatory September 1950 Fortune magazine article about the then nearly 50-year old retailer. The statement was true enough of the majority of J.C. Penney stores of the day. While certainly not unpleasant, a “low-key handsomeness” was about the