{"id":24370,"date":"2010-12-27T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T03:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=24370"},"modified":"2010-12-26T22:56:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T06:56:43","slug":"remembering-the-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24370","title":{"rendered":"Remembering The Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fLNQY7VAiDI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/fLNQY7VAiDI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;BOY, DO YOU NEED US NOW!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24256\" target=\"_blank\">JCPenney<\/a> had a discount chain that operated in the 1970s. <\/p>\n<p>Similar to Target today, this odd Penney thing was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Treasury_%28retailer%29\" target=\"_blank\">The Treasury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Helvetica logo in place, our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/romleys\/2784876227\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">local Treasury<\/a> moved into a former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Front\" target=\"_blank\">White Front<\/a> locale &#8211; had midnight madness sales, aisles of cool stuff. They even sold comic books. And had the best damn snack bar pizza ever.<\/p>\n<p>The chain didn&#8217;t last past 1981. Tho a new company &#8211; The Home Depot &#8211; opened their first locations in former Treasury digs. <\/p>\n<p>Big Boxes were soon to take over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/TheTreasury.jpg\"><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Remembering The Treasury\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24370\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;BOY, DO YOU NEED US NOW!&#8217; JCPenney had a discount chain that operated in the 1970s. Similar to Target today, this odd Penney thing was The Treasury. With Helvetica logo in place, our local Treasury moved into a former White Front locale &#8211; had midnight madness sales, aisles of cool stuff. They even sold comic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-history","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24370"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24440,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions\/24440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}