Old School shopping

[Matt Deckard]

What sales used to be like.

 

[GOK]

Wonderful, wonderful images, Matt but what a nightmare. I don't like shopping at the best of times, so those pictures look like utter hell on earth to me! Thank goodness for the interweiser!

The man in the dark suit, on the left hand side of the last photo (looking upwards) - is he wearing Scott's perfect pants?

 

[SinatraStyle]

Look at all of those well dressed patrons! Do you know when the picture was taken (don't say 9:17 as seen in picture #2 )?

 

[Kim_B]

My goodness! And I thought it was bad the day after Thanksgiving! They certainly don't look as mean as a lot of the patrons do these days! lol

 

[Feraud]

Ugh, shopping with the crowd. I hate it no matter how nicely dressed they are!
I wonder if those "Dollar Day" shoppers push and step over each other like our modern day bargain hunters?

- is he wearing Scott's perfect pants?

What brand of pant are "Scott's"?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Look at all of those well dressed patrons! Do you know when the picture was taken (don't say 9:17 as seen in picture #2 )?

Since "Song Of The Islands" with Betty Grable and Victor Mature is playing across the street at the Rialto, it's probably around springtime, 1942. (The Second Big Feature is probably Dorothy Lamour and William Holden in "The Fleet's In.") Anyone want to grab an early matinee?

 

[Fletch]

What sales used to be like.

Almost entirely female, you'll notice.

The picture playing across the street in shot 2 is Song of the Islands, which dates that shot to 1942.

 

[Fletch]

Liz, this is really getting eerie...

 

[Feraud]

You all can have the shopping and I will be across the street at the movies.

 

[Fletch]

Based on the Grable-Mature cue, a more appropriate title would've been I Wake Up Screaming.

 

[scotrace]

Ugh, shopping with the crowd. I hate it no matter how nicely dressed they are!
I wonder if those "Dollar Day" shoppers push and step over each other like our modern day bargain hunters?

What brand of pant are "Scott's"?

These. And those are not they.

 

[Feraud]

Doh! I was thinking of a particular brand..:eusa_doh:

 

[Matt Deckard]

I do have to say that Macy's doesn't belong on the west coast.

 

[HadleyH]

I love those pictures!!!!! and the people, place and time!!!!
Thanks for posting them!

 

[LadyDeWinter]

Nice pictures Matt, thank you for posting them.

 

[duggap]

Nice Pics

I was struck by the number of women wearing hats in those photos, compared to the number of women who wear hats today. Some nice hats on the men.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Was this one taken in Pasadena? There's the Rialto Theater in Pasadena.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Does Pasadena have a Broadway? (Rochester does.) Stores had different exits with the street name presented above.

 

[Atomic Glee]

Sigh. Today, the image out the doors would probably be a blank, depressing suburban parking lot. Back then, it was a living street, with a thousand stories that were never told but existed in those signs and buildings.

Sigh.

 

[CharlieH.]

Wow! How could I miss this one? That's great stuff, Matt. I love to see vintage crowd photos.

Now I must ask - What is that girl to the left of the Dollar Day sign wearing on her feet? Bandages?
(Get a load of those fonts!)