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James Cash Penney, (1875-1971), founder of J.C. Penney; his farm home has been moved to town and is a museum. Zack Wheat, (1888-1972) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The company was incorporated under the new name, J. C. Penney Company. In 1916, he began to expand the chain east of the Mississippi River, and during the 1920s, the Penney company expanded nationwide, with 120 stores in 1920, most of which were still in the west. By 1924, Penney reported income of more than $1 million annually. [4]
In 1940, Sam Walton began working at a J. C. Penney in Des Moines, Iowa. Walton subsequently founded retailer Walmart in 1962. [11] By 1941, J. C. Penney operated 1,600 stores in all 48 states. In 1956, J. C. Penney started national advertising with a series of advertisements in Life magazine. J. C. Penney credit cards were first issued in 1959.
The J. C. Penney Co. Warehouse Building, ... due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reopened in 2022 as an OYO Hotel. It is set to be renovated, at a cost of $46 million ...
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Nance Museum, Lone Jack, collection of Saudi Arabian art and artifacts, [69] donated to the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri in 2003 [70] Ozarks Afro-American Heritage Museum, Ash Grove, closed in 2013, collection now online [71] Roy Rogers - Dale Evans Museum, Branson, website, moved from Victorville, California then ...
Across JC Penney Drive from the two commercial buildings is a small park, in which stands the J. C. Penney House, now a historic house museum. It is a small 1-1/2 story frame house, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It was probably built about 1900, and was home to the Penney family from 1902 to 1909.
The mall was expanded in 1972 with a new location of J. C. Penney, but began losing major stores in the early 1980s. J. C. Penney closed in 1983, but was soon reopened as an outlet store, while Stix, Baer & Fuller was sold to Dillard's in 1984 and closed only two years later. Tenancy continued to decline throughout the 1990s, culminating in the ...