A JC Penney catalog from 1977. It's not often blog fodder just falls in my lap, but holy hell this was two solid inches of it, right there for the taking. I thumbed through it quickly and found my ...

JCPenney's "Big Book" catalogs used to span 1,000 pages. — -- In a blast from the past, sort of, JCPenney is bringing back old-school mailings to draw customers to its website and ...

It’s difficult to really get your head around a moment in time that’s not your own. Even with a deep knowledge of the dry facts and figures of history, and even with a period as recent as the 1970s.