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Post# 632287   10/17/2012 at 08:20 (4,180 days old) by franksdad (Greenville, South Carolina)        

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Does anyone remember when JCPenney stopped offering and selling electronics and major appliances?  I remember just before JCP moved to Haywood Mall in 1978 looking at appliances, electronics, and furniture on the basement floor of their Main Street store.  I can't honestly remember if they still carried appliances and electronics in their Haywood Mall store but I do know they still offered furniture.   If I'm not mistaken, JCP appliances and electronics were labeled "Penncrest."  Am I correct about that name?    Also, it looks like the washer in today's POD was manufactured by Hotpoint (GE).  Is that correct also?  Thanks!





Post# 632291 , Reply# 1   10/17/2012 at 08:30 (4,180 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I remember when JCP was clearing out their appliance and electronic departments, I bought a nice stereo receiver and a GE made television for a pittance. Charged on my newly-minted JCP credit card, about 1986-87.

The Penncrest name was gone even before I remember "shopping" the appliance department in our store. Maybe early 70's? I always wished JCP had put their appliances in their catalogs, what a fun resource we'd have today.

Today's POD is a GE-Hotpoint clone. When I was a kid in the 70's, all of the JCP appliances were from GE-Hotpoint except for a few microwave ovens and a Japanese made portable washer & dryer set.



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