Anyone remember seeing these in the JC Penny furniture department ?

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I wonder if there was a matching Barrel shaped stereo console so you could play your Roll Out the Barrel polka LPs. ?
And you'd definitely need a barrel shaped chandelier to hang over the barrel shaped card table wouldn't you think?
And some barrel shaped beer steins
 
We saw a model home in 1972 with these in it out at Champions on FM1960 in Houston.  That was out in the real county then was awfu to us.  We ended u buying home in Spring north of the Airport off Aldine Westfield road off the FM 1960 which at that time was 2 lane road.  We moved from Oak Forest area,
 
Those game chairs look every bit as uncomfortable as the lattice-bottom ones found in (almost always mediocre) Mexican restaurants.
 
Ugly!

It would appear to me, that anyone who bought this set, would have taken it up
their rumpus! With no room left to boot! LOL

Hugs,
David
 
One of our neighbors bought the side chairs, ottoman and an end table for their den back around 1972 or so. They didn't look so bad then. But by 1975 or so the backs of the armchairs and ottoman Naugahyde split and the stuffing was coming out.

They were considered cute for the time, but they didn't hold up to use very well. Quite a few furniture stores sold variations on this theme at the time.
 
Did Penny's have a furniture department? When did they stop selling appliances? The thing I remember most about Penny's was their Treasure Island stores that sort of had the Biblical life span of grass: "In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth." They lasted a few brief years and then closed, probably when the economy went stinko after the oil embargoes. We had one near us that opened in the late 60s. They had everything from tires and gas for the car to groceries that would give gas to humans and housewares, health & beauty, records and lots of cheap clothes. The one by my parents' house became the first Home Depot or the first attempt.
 
What's more fun than a barrel of monkey's?

Coming up with fun things to say about that lovely barrel furniture.

Can you imagine being on the Wheel of Fortune or Let's Make a Deal and you won that. What the hell would you do?
A: Vomit
B: Clobber Pat or Monty
C: Have an instant heart attack
D: All of the above
 
I hate that barrel furniture so much I would burn it if i seen it in my house. They made a stereo console also a radio am and a tv stand omg that in the wagon wheel lamps make me want to poke my eys out.
 
Someone that designs things for Pennys has a BARREL FETISH!!Ugly furniture!-This is the furniture you would LOVE to see crushed to staves in the Leech or EZ-Pak RL trash truck!I never saw these-the Pennys I went to mostly sold clothes-guess that furniture was sold from the Pennys catalog?The Pennys store in Greeenville is getting remodeled.Hope that furniture isn't shown after the remodel!
 
I remember seeing this in their catalog...

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">It was revolting then, it's revolting now. The biggest JC Penney in the chain (in San Juan, Puerto Rico) has a rather extensive furniture department located on the fourth floor. </span>
 
Penney's started with a furniture department as they moved into the malls in the very early 60s. They stopped selling hard goods in about 1984 or so as they moved (back) into their clothing/fashion business. There's some good information in Pleasant Family Shopping blog. Interestingly, they didn't get into the catalog business until the early 60s also...they never though set up a catalog which had everything (furniture/appliances) like Sears/Wards. They were the first computerized catalog house so were unusually efficient. Believe that the catalogue business they bought (General Merchandise from Milwaukee) was also the precursor to their Treasure Island stores which were apparently very early hypermarkets (think Meijer or Fred Meyer or Smitty's). Apparently they were pretty well-liked in the areas where they operated (Milwaukee and Atlanta primarily), but they weren't very expandable (which makes sense as several of the early discounters with limited locations in a city--think Korvette's) struggled and closed. In Atlanta several of the locations became early Home Depots.
 
Thanks, Jamie, for the answers. I did not know that Treasure Island had such limited locations. About the same time that TI stores opened, we, in Atlanta, got Richway Stores, a gift from Rich's Department Store. The buildings were very distinctive with huge angled projections from the roof for skylights. They were painted with LOUD early 70s color combinations like pink/orange & lemon/lime and, like TI, had grocery operations. I guess both were casualties of the 70s recession. It was sad after they, too, closed because when you drove by one, even from a distance, you knew it was a dead Richway because of the architecture and colors. The parking lots for stores in both chains were generally very full. I guess both were casualties of the 70s recession. Richway tried something very radical at the time: every item, excpet in the grocery part, was given a bar code sticker for the price and the checkout registers used bar code scanners to read prices. The glue was very hard to remove from hard goods, especially from plastic items. What made this early attempt so bad was that, instead of being able to program sale prices into the computer, every tag on every sale item had to be changed at the start and end of the sale and, for some reason, the computer could not count what had been sold or if so, the count had to be verified, so we had to count stock inventory at the beginning and end of the sale as well as change the price stickers. I heard it said that the store went broke because so much merchandise left the stores without being paid for or sold for the wrong price due to errors in the computer and the checkout system. That summer I spent at Richway is one I won't forget for a long time.
 
Pete,

Your Wheel of Furtune/Let's Make a Deal comment almost made me spew my coffee!!!  Too funny.  As for Treasure Island in the Milwaukee area that explains alot.  When my dads aunt & uncle lived in Oak Creek there was a location near their home.  That store, along with their catalog return outlet, were side-by-side.  You could find some really great deals, and also alot of stuff that should have just gone into the dumpster behind the store.  One year when we happened to be visiting them I got all of my school clothes there.  Mom liked shopping there because she got a 20% discount rather than the usual 15% for JC Penney employees.  And if items were already marked down, the savings were even better.  It was great not having the same clothes as my schoolmates.
 
I'm afraid you are mistaken Jamiel...

<span style="font-size: medium;">JCPenneys still sells "hard goods" in many of their stores.  Along with their flagship store in San Juan as mentioned above, Penney's at Queens Plaza Mall in NYC also sells "hard goods" among others. Look it up in their website. </span>

 

 
 
Jamie, why do you say that Treasure Island stores were not very expandable? Do you mean into new territories? I thought there were JC Penney stores all over. Did they not share resources with TI?

The only time I saw appliances at Penney's was my one visit to the store in Northlake Mall at Lavista Rd and I 285 in suburban Atlanta.

I will admit to not having much experience with Penney's, mostly with the store in the Laurel, MD mall which closed long ago and now the mall is being torn down, but it was mostly a soft goods store with clothes, linens and shoes along with a teeny tiny housewares dept about the size of a baker's rack. Penney's had good men's underwear & socks in the late 80s thru the early 90s.
 
That's exactly like our local JCP is here. It's a large two story store in a mall and they carry men, women's and children's clothing, linens, shoes and lamps. The section for clothing is about 75% of the story.

Back in the 70's we used to shop Penny's quite a bit, but I think around 1983 or so we stopped going there. I forgot the reason why. But last year we did go into JCP and were pleasantly surprised at the selection and prices. When we were growing up all of our underwear came from JCP. It really wore well. Last year we went to buy some more and I was shocked to see that JCP doesn't carry their own brand anymore. They now carry "major brand" underwear.

When I was a kid the JCP we used to shop at sold kitchen appliances and washers and dryers. In another section of the store they sold portable stereos. The kind with the cart and separate speakers. But one of my aunt's bought a Penncrest console stereo so she must have bought it there, even though I never saw one there. Wasn't it around the mid 80's that JCP stopped selling appliances?
I know Foley's in Houston used to sell those and television sets too, but one day they were all gone around the same time.
 
Here in NC

The Winston-salem Penney's went out of the furniture and white goods in the mid to later 80's, in Greensboro, NC the store was remodled in the early 90's and furniture was kept in that store, however I don't know if it is still there or not. by Donald not Hans
 

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