1944 The Story of Your Store: History of Gimbel's Department Store
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2014
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Wonderful film from 1944 about the history of Gimbel's Department Store. Originally shown as a recruitment and orientation film for new employees at Gimbel's Philadelphia store on Market Street.
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I worked in Gimbels 33rd st NYC one Christmas period in late '60s...selling in mens shirt area...was great fun...a happy time....
Do you miss those days, mister?
I worked there from 1974-1980 loved it!!
@@MADR1265 I remember shopping there in the 60s and 70s.
my friend Valerie Hawkins Godmother worked at Gimbels for 40 years....she retired in the early 80's.....she worked at the Gimbel's on 8th&9th Market Street in Philadelphia...Her name was Miss Margie Taylor.......she passed at the age of 92.....RIP Miss Margie!!!!!
1940s and they had paid vacation, disability pay, on-site medical and dental care, continuing education, hot meals ... pretty nice for retail sales employees.
Did you have a relative that worked there in the 1940s? Im looking for my dads bio family. I believe his bio mother worked there late 1940s.
Agreed. Pretty nice for the masses of American workers.
Back then, people qnd companies had a much higher sense of civic pride and responsibility to make life better for society. Unlike today, when it's everyone for him/herself, and companies consider their main duty is to make their executives and shareholders as rich as possible, and to hell with their "disposable" little employees.
Early in the 20th century, Henry Ford, the ultimate cold-hearted capitalist, had had the earth-shattering idea that if you pay your employees well, and give them job security, respect, and benefits, they'll be so loyal to you that they'll work extra hard. The business community was outraged, and predicted economic disaster. But Ford went ahead with his idea, which worked so well that it became the standard throughout big business.
Unfortunately, all this has been forgotten through the years.
@@OofusTwillip also CEOs made a fraction of what they earn now as well.
Never see these days again
When you bought an item back in this time you bought quality. Now... quality is lost and replaced with quantity. Sad
I love watching videos of the 30s and 40s. Thank you for sharing this video. 💖
R.I.P. Grandmom they will never forget you and when you dressed every Christmas, Easter! So on! H. Winters Love you
I shopped at gimbals with my mom when I was a kid in the early 70 s it was so clean so nice! I can't believe it's gone
Aaaahhh, the days before the "retail apocalypse" of late 2000s.
"Earning a livelihood."
A livelihood. *Livelihood.*
I can't make a livelihood these days working from retail.
If I could, I'd be a lot happier working.
Always loved that you could clearly see the 'Gimbel' on the roof of the store from the observation deck on the Empire State Building, barring that there wasn't thick fog lol. I have a pic of it that I took with my little Brownie camera in the early 60's.
Thank you for showing this elegant shopping experience. I'm so jealous. Target has improved products but over half the employees are dressed so shabbily probably because they aren't treated well or don't get paid enough in wages and benefits.
One of the Gimbel heirs built a country home in my town. Our homes were built on the old estate back in the 70's. Beautiful old stone mansion Far View.
This is amazing....Says a lot about the Store, the Family, and American Culture during one of its' most respected eras....Sad to see how far we have fallen.
Boomers messed up.
An old dear friend of mine always said that you could carve out a future in retail then and it led to many of their opportunities. She met the salesman for Marbro Lamps and her future began in 1947...They moved to Los Angeles and worked with Saks,k I. Magnin, Bullocks, and The May Company selling them beautiful lamps for home decor. Then they moved to Dallas and began an art gallery. What a story!
You used to be able to have a good career and livelihood in the restaurant industry too. Not any more. But maybe, now that so many restaurants are desperate for staff, things will get better.
What a lovely legacy of Adam Gimbel. And to know they weren't an "also ran" to Macy's, like in the Miracle on 34th Street movies. I see that Ellis A Gimbel was portrayed in those movies. And to know their underlying philosophy was from the Bible. Wonderful legacy. And to know that it continues to this day. And Saks Fifth Avenue continues to this day. They were more than an retail institution. To know they had daycare, and a radio station and a bank. What a great place it must have been back in the day.
WIP still exists in Philadelphia. Originally on 610 AM, they now broadcast sports talk on both that frequency and 94.1 FM.
OldsVistaCruiser I remember when 94.1 was a rock station WYSP
@@samanthab1923 - Me, too!
Thank you for posting this video. Grew up in Pittsburgh in the 60’s and 70’s. My mother worked across the street from Gimbels in the Oliver Building on 6th and Smithfield. Saks was on the 6th floor in Gimbels. Brass elevators.... miss those good old days 🙏🏼💔🙁
I didn't know there were this many Gimbel's stores, nor that Saks was part of the same company.
The era when freestanding department stores of such size - one of these is 14 stories tall - dominated urban retailing is now gone.
Wonderful! I had no idea Saks was once a sister store to Gimbel's. So interesting! Thank-you for posting!!!
what a great place it was to work !!
Rhonda Hoeft Thanks Rhonda! Did you work there?
lol no I wish :-)
Before computers it was required for people to be educated ,today's problems come from children growing up whit out a father or a mother and the violence on video games and movies and disrespect for authorities and the hate we see in the news media .
While I am sure that an overly sunny picture was painted in this little film, it appears that people were treated exceedingly well even in a retail employment situation. Today, if you are highly educated and skilled you are still treated as disposable in most corporations. If I was a young person looking for a job today, I would have similar disrespect for authority knowing I would be unlikely to get any respect in return. BTW, FOX television twenty four hours a day is not good for you. At least get some exercise by going out and yelling at kids to get off your lawn once in awhile.
More like the Hate Mongering that is perpetuated by the Media!##
The Internet was a great invention but also ruined so many things
Thank you for sharing. I loved it back when working in retail was a great job to have
Thank you for your feedback. If not for curators of vintage reports and documentaries we wouldn't have these memories. I remember Gimbels and other department stores in Philadelphia.
michael caputo I can remember crying when the Gimbels New York flagship on Herald Square closed
Produced in 1944. Note the "War Bonds" signs in front of every Gimbel's store, and the "event notices" at 10:29.
I remember going to Gimbels in NY for years. Then I went to college in Milwaukee and was thrilled to find a Gimbels there!!! In NY, it was Gimbels and Macy*s....
Do you recall Schuster’s on the other end of Wisconsin Ave? It was the other anchor type store of the shopping area!
Such a great country we once were.
The store in Milwaukee is still there. Among other things it's now a Planet Fitness and a Residence Inn. I like it, it's a nice building; Milwaukee has a lot of those still around, thankfully.
Say no to the WALMART monopoly and those ridicules blue smocks and bring back the good old day stores!
That can never happen anymore.
dude target is a good example of a good store that has an old vibe
Those who love this Nation are true Americans. Not Globalism but Nationalism!!!
Bless your heart.
Nationalism is a disease.
Wayne ovila I absolutely agree these his ty oth films on the great departments store form my childhood. Only focus on what was bough sold and lost not really the truth of it. Walmart I have heard said took their time growing and expanding slowly and that that was what started in art downfall expanding quickly. I GREW UP BBN IN A GARMENT FACTORY AND I SAW THE REAL TEUTH OF IT. wWalmart would build a store I. A town that had other stores and they would slash their prices below all the others no matter how low they had to go. This would in effect in a matter of months take the others stores devoted customers. And force them one by one to close and then walmart would be the only one left standing besides the dollar senerals and grocery store them walmart would slowly raise their prices to make the customers not notice. The layout of discount racks and such gives the illusion of items staying cheaper. By the time customers realize the prices arent as cheap as they believed there is no other store close to shop at so walmart has them stuck
this is great..thank you for sharing
I remember when Gimbels closed down on Long Island
I live here in Vincennes and the original store burned down a few years back. It's now planned to be a park called Gimbel Corner
Thank you for this excellent footage. Unfortunately American mercantilism has deteriorated since the days of Gimbel's. Big box stores like Target and Walmart are like shopping in a third world ghetto. Employees don't know product, and are barely literate or interested in helping the customer. People dress like slobs, and have lost the arts of courtesy and manners. I mourn for this country, and how so much has been lost due to avarice and greed. I would have preferred to live during this time when things were fair
If people were paid enough to have the livelihood Gimble Bros. provided their previous employees, then maybe people wouldn't act or dress like slobs, and actually care to know their product.
Poorly trained, uncaring employees are a result of the disposable employee culture that American capitalism is. If companies actually paid properly and gave security and benefits, employees would be professional and hard working. It’s a proven fact.
This is awesome thanks for this :-)
Rhonda Hoeft You are welcome. We love this footage, one of our favorites from our entire collection.
Your logo is rather large and kind of takes up a bit too much space in the upper left hand corner, distracting, but love the video. :)
Wow the whole QC department to check product, you will never see that again.
awesome
Your name is Edward but you look like Herman. Hmmmm
I don't have any opinion other than what a shame, we still need it. The bridge between the buildings. I crossed it once as a messenger.
How wonderful...opening up with a scripture verse ! We certainly were a Christian nation !
I worked at Gimbels in the 1960s
I wish it was still open. Too bad you have all that stuff on the screen, would be better without it.
+Marca Fragili I agree, too much extraneous information in a film can obscure the essential visuals. If watermarks must be used, they should always be placed in the lower-left or lower-right corner of the image, not blocking any more than necessary. Sometimes, perhaps, it is not a choice about the counter being present. But wherever possible, that should also be disabled.
I think it’s disgusting he even needs to put a huge trademark on a video he never made making this basically unwatchable for me
@@xr6lad - I agree. I hate when posters (coughPeriscopecough) put counters and watermarks on public domain films.
@@OldsVistaCruiser you are free to scour the thousands of library stocks and government films and create your own videos to show on RUclips. I hate when whiny people ..cough (OldsVistaCruiser) watch something someone else did the work making and wants to tell them how to produce it. 🤣🤣😂😂
@@rapman5363 - Exactly. SOMEONE ELSE made it.
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, i need a name for a department store annnnnnnd, gimbels is a great name
These stores survive only when wage earners can afford them… as wages declined… the foot print of these stores declined.
"Back to gimbels basement"
Whos here after watching ELF
What happened to Gimbels...Lord& Taylor....B.Altmans.....J.Kleins?
Korvettes.
Bring that backs
Anyone know what the Gimbles 100 club was?
White Flowers/Red Flowers on management employees.
I had identified it as a philly store.. we have a Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston to this day but I did not realize the association..FDR &Wilson SUCKED.. who came up with the parade idea first?
Executive Training Program.
Wait? I thought Gimbels was made up for Elf movie
Gimbels went out of business in 1987.
Your "My Footage" tag is too solid and distracting. I like your content, but that's annoying and kept me from subscribing.
And now it looks like Macy’s is on its way out, closing stores and death of the Mall anchor store concept. Malls, Walmart and now Amazon struck the final blow to department stores. Good bye Macy’s Parade, a part of America will die with these closings...only to be seen in these historical archive films, thank God!
Don’t worry, the parade will never go away. It’s too entrenched in our holiday culture. I guarantee a company like Amazon would gladly pick up the tab for it. They can afford to afterall.
Wanamakers rules.
why do these treat us like little children???and quote from the book burners book?
Your footprint on this film makes it unwatchable!