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Title: The romance of a great store
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hungerford, Edward, 1875-1948
Subjects: Macy's (Firm)
Publisher: New York, R.M. McBride & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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a hot day in midsummer he would begin to think ofthe cooling lager that flowed at The Grapevine, a fewblocks down the avenue. That settled it. He wouldhave to slip down there for five minutes. And slipdown he did, while I stood guard at the ThirteenthStreet door. I felt that Miss GetchelPs far-seeingeye was forever upon us or that Mr. Macy might turnup quite unexpectedly. In return for all this, Mr. S would occasionally stand guard while I would slip over to John Huylersbakery at Eighth Avenue and Fourteenth Street—sometimes to get one of his wonderful pies, and othertimes to buy the lovely new candies upon which he was beginning to experiment. We were great pals—S and I. Nowadays in the great department stores they orderthis entire business of collecting both cash and packagesin a far better fashion. The merchant of today hasa variety of wondrous mechanical contraptions—notonly cash-carriers but cash-registers—which do thework they once did, much more rapidly and efficiently.
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THE FOURTEENTH STREET STORE OF OTHER DAYS By the early seventies Macys had absorbed the entire southeastern corners of 14th Street and 6th Avenue, and had come to be a fixture of New York Fourteenth Street Days 35 Even in those long ago days of the eighties the Macystore was beginning to install pneumatic tubes forcarrying the money from the saleswomen at thecounters to the high-set booths of the head cashiers,who seemingly had come to regard it as a mere com-modity, to be regarded in as fully impersonal a fashionas boots or shoes or sugar or broom-sticks. Put thatdown as progress for the eighties. The Macy store prided itself during that secondgeneration, as now, upon its willingness to take upinnovations, particularly when they showed themselvesas possessing at least a degree of real worth. Mr.Macy, with his old fashioned prejudices against inno-vations of any sort, was gone. His successors took aradically different position in regard to them. Herewas the electric-light—that brand

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