J.C. Penney first opened on Main Street in 1920, maintaining a popular shopping spot even long after it moved to the Forest ...
The first-ever JCPenney store was known as "The Golden Rule" and named by founder James Cash Penney as an ode to the popular idiom "treat others as you would like to be treated." The store was ...
The first of Penney's stores were called "Golden Rule," and introduced a no-haggling approach to shopping before the chain grew and adapted to its communities' customer bases. The store opened ...