Kmart In-Store Music: Christmas 1974

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Well, why not?

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I know I sound nuts but I miss the sounds of my youth.

I miss having a Sears Christmas Catalog in my hands to choose my gifts, to see the Andy Williams and Bing Crosby Christmas shows on TV. I need something that feels sane right now.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. One word: YouTube. NT

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Gee thanks I would not have thought of that (sarcasm).

[pansypoo53219]

9. or ebay. explains why my grandma's hoarded 74 sears? wishbook did so well.

[malthaussen]

10. Funny you should mention that.

I picked up the Fall 73 catalogue recently for nostalgia's sake.

Oh, the prices, the prices.

-- Mal

[SCantiGOP]

12. Sears catalogues:

the 1970s version of internet porn------------
Hey, to a 10 year old boy those brassiere sections were pretty hot.

[tblue37]

4. +1. nt

[meadowlark5]

5. I like how announcements break in LOL

I'm just letting it play in youtube for now because it's kind of fun.

I've been told to get my personal check cleared at the customer service desk before going to check out and also no smoking in the store, only at the snack bar

[gratuitous]

6. I went to a K-Mart once

It was brand spankin' new in my little hometown and I was headed out of town for another year at college. I thought I'd stop in and buy a pair of flip-flops ($3.50) and write a check for a little over ($5.00) so I could buy dinner when I got to my destination. I had never been in a store where you had to get pre-clearance for a check, so I innocently got in the checkout line with my purchase and my checkbook.

As I said, I was heading off to college, and had deposit slips hanging of my checkbook for the tuition check I was going to need to write the next day. I was good for it, you know? Besides, $8.50 didn't seem comparable to the Great Brinks Heist. But the cashier proceeded to yell at me that I needed to get my check pre-cleared, and what was wrong with me anyway, and now she was going to have to call a supervisor over, who grumpily stomped over to look at my check, with four people standing behind me witnessing the whole show, and the supervisor scrutinized my check with the care of an Egyptologist looking at the Rosetta Stone, and finally pronounced the check acceptable (risking her career as a K-Mart supervisor, I'm quite sure), and the cashier then told me in no uncertain terms that I'd better not try to pull a stunt like that ever again.

Don't worry, K-Mart. I've never tried it again.

[meadowlark5]

7. LOL I guess you weren't in the store when the announcement was made

People used to write bum checks all of the time back then. I worked in a Ben Franklin store in high school and it was always a loss for the store because people would write checks with no funds to cover them. Sometimes they were able to recover the money many times not.

Kmart seems like it would have been ripe for that kind of shenanigans.

But they didn't need to be so rude about it. Maybe they should have posted it boldly at the cash register line so people wouldn't have to happen to hear it over the announcements.

[47of74]

11. Our Mart of K closed last year

It was the first one in Iowa so it had been around over 50 years.

I remember a fair number of Saturday afternoons spent there shopping with my mom and grandma.

In later years not many people shopped there until it was announced that it was closing then it seemed for a while like everyone wanted to shop there.

I kind of miss our local K-Mart at times because they were in a convenient location and sometimes good deals could still be found there. The staff was all right.

Part of the building is now being converted in to a VA clinic.

[Phentex]

8. Call me sick

but I kinda like this music. I think October is the right time to enjoy holiday music before we get sick of it.

Thanks!

[FSogol]

13. Maybe you get sick of it becasue you start listening in OCTOBER?

Bookmarking for Nov 23rd.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. In just over a month, WASH will start playing all Christmas music, all the time.

I think it would be fun to have a radio station make a slight alteration to that theme, by playing Christmas-related radio and TV advertising from the '60s and '70s.

[FSogol]

15. You might be able to put together a youtube playlist of those items. We are fans of

OTR and have a bunch of the Jack Benny Christmas stuff, most includes the old ads.

[flibbitygiblets]

17. In just over a month, the trumped up War on Krismus will begin

And the rubes will get all goggly- eyed with rage once again. Ah, Krismus.

[llmart]

22. By the time Christmas actually gets here...

I'm sick of it and that's because of everything starting in October. The stores already have their Christmas merchandise out. I just truly wish they would wait until after Thanksgiving.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

16. dazzling camera work there.... hahahh nt

[Polybius]

18. That is amazing!

I really miss K-Mart, all I have is Target around here. Like another poster said, I'm bookmarking it too, but for me it's December 1st.

[lindysalsagal]

19. Proof that humans are getting smarter: We would never tolerate that crap now.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

20. Its stilll 1974 in all the Kmarts I go into - we dont have any remaining in my neck of the woods but

I always like to stop in if I see one when Im on the road. If they survive (are they going under wit Sears?) they really should market that retro vibe - I think it would be a hit!

[llmart]

21. Well, now I am really nostalgic for the '70's.

Or maybe I'm just wishing I were 20-something again. Ah, those were the days my friend.

I had a K-Mart within walking distance of my apartment complex. I had very little money then, and my husband of the time and I only had one car, so it sure was convenient.

[flibbitygiblets]

23. Pretty sure that's my grampa's Chevy stepside out front

Probably just ducked in for some Pall Mall unfiltered.

[LeftInTX]

24. Depressing

Muzak and K-Mart....and Christmas



The place always smelled funny. The merchandise was displayed haphazardly...Muzak always made me want to avoid shopping....anywhere......

[Polybius]

25. Curse YouTube for taking this down!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

26. Yes. Maybe refind and repost.

Ive had a few do that.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. Oh, darn. Well, maybe next year.

I'm headed to Kmart Monday evening. The ones in northern Virginia have shuttered their doors, but the one in Hyattsville, Maryland, is still a going concern. Someone answered the phone and said that they would not be closing.