HALLMARK - Life in America
Vložit
- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Thank you for watching, please consider supporting Recollection Road by clicking the THANKS button on this video.
You can also contiribute on Patreon for only $3:
/ recollectionroad
=========================
Subscribe to Recollection Road:
/ recollectionroad
Subscribe to Recollection Road - Movies and Television:
/ recollectionroadmovies...
=========================
#recollectionroad #nostalgia
I worked on the Hallmark account for an ad agency in Kansas City. I'm proud to have written and produced several commercials for Hallmark Keepsake ornaments. The one I'm most proud of was the commercial for the Klingon Bird of Prey ornament. Being a Star Trek fan, Don Hall Jr. liked and approved my concept and I went to Paramount Studios to film it. Thanks for this video. It brought back some nice memories.
Congratulations!
bravo!
I worked for Hallmark during the '80's. Best employer I ever had.
Yes , back then .
You voice and the music you choose go so well together. It is very pleasant and soothing and I hope you never change this style.
I worked for Hallmark Cards (manufacturing) for 40 years. They knew how to take care of their employees.
Back in the good old days .
What a great story. I had no idea the history of this company.
We lived at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, across the river from Kansas City, MO. Hallmark generously donated their excess products to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the surrounding community. I have been a loyal fan since that time!
In 1988 my daughter went to a costume party as Rainbow Bright and won for best costume. She still has the picture and the Blue ribbon for 1st place. She is in California and I am in IL. and when I go to see her we look at them. It make us so happy to remember that time!
What a great company. Thanks for all of your American stories. Your channel is fantastic!
I never knew the backstory to this iconic company! Thank you.
I am a vendor for Hallmark,servicing several stores, been with the company about 17 years,and love it! Thanks for this interesting video!
Love these stories. Some bring me so many memories....and tears of happiness.
The best cards are always found in a Hallmark store, typically I will make an effort to go to a store over the selection at a grocery store. Great video…thank you for making these!
I almost always buy Hallmark cards.
I wish there was a Hallmark store near me😕
@@Les445 Those were the days, when boy's knew they were boys, and girl's knew they were girls, and knew which public bathrooms to use.
Sadly , everything is cheap now and made in China .
support made in the USA
I have wonderful memories of John Hall when I was a child in Grand Lake Colorado. He would come and give us a ride in his high-powered speed boat, he was so unpretentious, so personable a great favorite with my parents, friends and other neighbors at bonfires they would have at night and share drinks and stories. He was warm, friendly and a great favorite amongst the summer residents.
Years later when I was working in Kansas City in addition to my full-time job I was very involved and committed to animal rescue.
The Hallmark complex was huge and had many interesting employees who greatly contributed to our efforts by promoting animals who needed new forever homes. Some of the Highly talented artists contributed immeasurably to this wonderful effort of love.
Hallmark Cards are the Best. I used to be a Hallmark Christmas
Ornament collector many years ago. I enjoyed seeing and buying
The newest ornament of that year for my collections. I also
Remember when the Card stores
Would send out flyers to their
Customers about the Holiday
Christmas Open House which
Introduced all of its new
Products for the
Christmas season. Lots of
Good Memories.❤️❤️
I love the Hallmark movies & have always thought of the best when I think of a card
I bought a birthday card for my son last week. $8.99!!! Thanks Hallmark.
Used to love the Hallmark stores. I haven’t been in one in years. I can get cards in my grocery store now. Always remember having the little calendars in my pocketbook in HS 😆
As a child, I loved receiving Hallmark cards from my Pittsburgh Grandma.
Now I love shopping and browsing in Hallmark Crown stores.👑👑👑👑👑👑
Having lived in Kansas City my whole life, I can't imagine Christmas without Hallmark ornaments and Crown Center lit up with people skating on the ice rink. As a kid, one of my favorite school field trips was going to Kaleidoscope at Crown Center. It was a place for kids to make their own arts and crafts
I love everything Hallmark. Thanks for putting this one together.
I loved everything Hallmark . It's not the same anymore :(
Hallmark stores in the malls were a must visit during Christmas time. Fond memories.
That was so interesting. What a great company!
Great Video! I love there cards, ornament, thanks for sharing.👍❤️
We always went to Hallmark stores and their card sections in stores for decades,more recent my Mom loves to watch Hallmark movies till this day
Since I have been around right at 3/4 of a century Hallmark has been a house hold name. I first discovered their cards as a small kid at Christmas by my grandmother. The only cards she ever purchased were “Hallmark” cards. In the mid 50’s there were 2 places in Wilmington, NC to purchase these cards.
One was a small card shop on Main Street and at Belk-Berry’s 2 streets up. I remember going with her at Christmas time and we went to both locations. Belk-Berry at Christmas had a huge Santa display in one of their large windows and a slot in the window to drop your letter to Santa. I always carried one anytime I made a visit to the Belk-Berry store.
I guess later other stores carried Hallmark cards but it was always these 2 stores which I remember. I was all of 6 when the trips first started. I have such fond memories of my grandmother and grandfather. They were truly 2 very special people in my life. In later years I went to live with them and it was a real joy.
I will close with this. Neither were never old and both were significant in the man I am today. I have purchased several Hallmark programs for my PC to make cards. People tell me I make some of the most beautiful cards. In part of my life, I worked in a print shop and learned many tricks. I learned about papers, card stock and have a wide assortment of materials. Each Christmas I make cards for those on my list and for many other occasions. THANK YOU FOR THIS WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE.
Nice to know this company is still going srong in 2022! I get a wet eye everytime i hear this song in one of recollection roads videos!!
My memorie(s) Is still looking on those vast shelves and choosing the right card. I like the stores as well & all the "goodies" you can find there. I still have a box full of cards given to me that I still cherish. If I want to smile or get misty eyed, I pull out that box. I also loved the TV broadcast specials. Wizard of OZ was one of my favorites. Thanks for the great history!
Growing up in Olathe, KS, I remember several school fieldtrips to Hallmark's headquarters in KC to go to Kaleidoscope, Hallmark's children's workshop, where you could do arts and crafts with Crayola crayons and markers. Hallmark's visitor's center was next door and you could learn the company's history and get some free souvenir bows. Of course, Crown Center and Union Station are must see areas of KC.
Hey I have the same memory! Hi John! lol
Rainbow Brite also had a breakfast cereal. I used to buy it all the time because the colors were so bright it would wake me up in the morning. It was like my bowl was glowing lol'
Sweet! I loved rainbow Brite when I was a kid. All these years I had no idea that she was started by Hallmark. I Live in Kansas City. Its now dull and unassuming. But stories such as this reminds me that it hasn't always been that way. Thanks for the memories.
When you care enough to send the very best. Even Nancy McKeon was in a hallmark commercial. It just paints a lovely picture with her in it.
Love your videos keep it up !
Awesome,,,i collect all of the hallmark lionel train xmas tree ornaments ,,,,i love them
I was hoping you would do this one! My parents always bought Hallmark. I still have their cards. My Grandma and Grandpa sent a Hallmark card every year for my birthday, with $10.00 in it. What a thrill!
I still love Hallmark and drive to their store. The other store by us closed down.
Too bad that many of their stores closed down recently.
@@mrath yes, a shame. I go out of my way to go to the remaining store here about once every few months. So many stores from my childhood gone. 😞
Hallmark is the best. I got my first diary from a Hallmark store in the 80s. My mother was very big on giving only Hallmark cards and I continue to do the same. Thanks for sharing this.🥰
I got a Norman Rockwell Hallmark diary from my neighbor for my high school graduation. My dad and mom only bought Hallmark cards.
Thank you for this video! I've been hoping you'd do a video about Hallmark!
I worked for the last
Hallmark store in
The Bronx before
closing in early 2014.
The community still
misses it 😔
No other store like it!
Another fascinating compilation. Thank you for sharing your gifts and talents with all of us here. God bless you.
I love everything Hallmark. Hallmark Christmas movies are my favorite.
I collected the "Star Trek" series of Christmas Ornaments in the mid-80's.
Then after collecting them all, sold them for more money than paid for them. Highley collectible indeed.
When someone says the more you spend on a card , the more you mean to the sender of the card is pure crap. My most treasured memories are letters and any message written on any card…. Pure garbage to say the more you spend the more you care! My aunt (RIP) was extremely poor and the fact she sent a card with a dollar and a heartfelt message meant the world to me. If she thought sending a cheaper card would make it seem she didn’t care, I cry thinking she would be embarrassed and not send anything.
Even MORE SO in this digital era, I love getting PHYSICAL greetings cards, Much more personal than an eMail!
Cleaned the Enfield, CT facility during the 80's. Good people. Fun place.
That's the only channel that my wife watches she watches every movie they have regardless of how many times it's been ran
Their movies are all the same storyline! Boy meets Girl. Girls Father owns country Inn. Boy loses Girl. Girls kids love Boy. Boy wins heart of Girl. The End.
Have seen a myriad of these on this channel and this one is in the TOP 5; the narrator for this genre is golden, as good as it gets IMHO and TYVM.
I would have never drempt the link to Hall's Crown Center until a high school friend of mine who was one year ahead worked there. Years later I moved to eastern Pennsylvania, thinking crayons were made out there IIRC, I know etch-a-sketch was. At that time Hallmark stores were appearing slowly, we tried to get a ornament a year. Eventually our cable systems carried the Hallmark channel. Now we have a handful of them, and Christmas in July all year long. As with my family tree shrinking our holidays have less importance. The nearly 80s don't want to be reminded of their birthdays until they want to remind you how old they are, and you have to remind them you were born when they were 20
I worked just down the street from Hallmark, at the iconic, Western Auto HQ building.
In 1988, I bought my first diary at a Hallmark store in Stroudsburg, PA. It had a well-functioning lock, and 12 year old me was thrilled to have some semblance of privacy! My mother always gave my uncle the current year's racoon ornament for Christmas. And admit it! We all looked at the price on the back of the card to see how high up the ladder of importance we ranked, or to see if the sender was a cheapskate! 😆
I love them Hallmark Christmas ornaments they are the best. Also there cards are the best. Also another great video from Recollection Road.👍👍
Use to be 8 hallmarks in a thirty minute radius of me..............now only one!I was also very upset that they canceled The Morning hallmark talk show.You didnt even mention the show that was on for almost 20 years.
They employed my Grandmother for 20+ years and gave her financial stability. She always spoke highly of the company. I wish I would have visited her at work more often
A CZcamsr Falon Moss always watches and mentions the Hallmark Movie Channel and continuously watches all the Christmas Movies :) :)
Love Your Videos. Thanks for Sharing.
I think there is only 1 Hallmark store left in Houston - there used to be 5 or 6. I liked them because you could find nice little gift items along with a really nice card for whatever occasion.
I remember going to a store about Hallmark in Kansas City.
Thank you for this awesome video
I shared it with my friend who is one of Hallmarks best customers
The Hallmark Company owes a lot to the advertising person who came up with the saying: "When you care enough to send the very best." That was a brilliant way to boost sales by capitalizing on two strong human emotions: guilt and shame. I've actually seen people turn the card over to check for the Hallmark logo -- apparently so that they can assess how much the sender of the card "cared."
Not Hallmark? Guess they just didn't care.
Amazing how easily well-intentioned humans can be manipulated into spending $7-8 that they might not have for a piece of paper that may well be at the bottom of the waste bad within a week. Just to signal to another person a feeling that they could easily put into their own words with more authenticity. Sad.
I send my family overseas cards from the Dollar Store/Family Dollar/Dollar General because 1) they are more affordable and 2) my family being foreign don't know about Hallmark.
Fifty years ago, I always sent Hallmark greeting cards, for every occasion. When Hallmark cards started costing $3 and up, I couldn't justify spending that kind of money for something that the recipient took a quick glance at, then trashed the card, but happily took the check/cash I included.
Now, I just send a check. No card. 🤷♀️
I worked at the Liberty distribution plant in the late 70s, My mom worked at the crown room
My neighbor growing up worked for Hallmark and I was fortunate enough to appear on 2 cards with her daughter who was the same age as me.
I love Hallmark, but their cards are too expensive. No way am I going to pay $6.00 for a card.
but you will pay $10 for a Big Mac cardboard sandwich
Having driven for a trucking company whose primary customer was Hallmark, I can sadly say that their greeting card division has been decimated by email the same way taxi cabs were by Uber. I used to pick up pallets of sheets of thousands of greeting cards in Georgia and bring them up to their plant in Topeka. That plant is closed now. So is the printer.
Thanks for sharing👌
I enjoy sanding cards to my friends and family And I am a member of the hallmark ornament collectibles
Love Hallmark!❤️
Fun finding out this history...lovely story!
I love all the ornaments and I wish I had every one of them.
Hallmark is today the #1 in greeting cards in America.
As always - thanks for the well presented history.
Love your channel, great work (speaking as a former TV critic). Many memories relating to Hall's. My later father worked right across the street from the Hall's store on the Country Club Plaza in KC. I taught Joyce Hall's granddaughter in a Speech class at a private school in KC. As a young reporter for The Kansas City Star, I covered a story or two about the construction of the downtown KC Hall's in the 60s. Then, while working for a small newspaper in Pasadena (Calif.), our artist, who had come out of retirement, reportedly helped design the Hallmark crown. Finally, when I moved to a larger paper (The San Diego Union-Tribune), I often contacted Hallmark's PR man Jim Price for color transparencies and background material about the history of various holidays, and these became a colorful and popular feature for some years. A checkered career! At any rate, many wonderful memories related to that company and you've brought them back beautifully. Thanks again. Really enjoy your mini-documentaries, they really get it right, a valuable tool too in informing and connecting generations.
My mother collected many of the Hallmark ornaments. She knew the guys in the family would like the cars and train ornaments especially. I have a few myself.
Myself personally --I think Hallmark has some really nice things for any given Holiday !!
Hallmark stores were a staple of malls in the 60's/70/s/80/s. I remember the one at Southcenter in Tukwila WA when I was a teen in the late 60's. In the 70's I actually bought cards and stuff there. Love the Hallmark movies too...a lot of really solid "family" shows.
I remember the one in Federal Way in the mall that had a QFC and Barnes and Noble as anchors, built in '95 just up from the (then) Seatac Mall on Pac Hwy.
@@pianomaly9859 I grew up in FW and remember cruising sea tac mall weekly …. Such great memories! Do u still live in FW ?
@@sonhuynh8222 No, out in Maple Valley/Black Diamond/Covington unincorporated area now.
Back when Printing was an art
My first "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV show was about Joan of Arc, starring Genvieve Bujold, when I was in sixth grade. In Fredericksburg, VA, beginning in 1979, Dameron's Hallmark store in The Fredericksburg Park And Shop was the source of many of the greeting cards I sent my future ex-wife during our college years. Cards that she threw away after she left me in 2011. This was a good show.
Foe years,I sent most of the greeting cards made by hallmark to my relatives at Christmas time and Easter too. I got some greeting cards too. I enjoyed hallmark cards.
Growing up we shopped at Hallmark quite often. My parents were very much involved with the American Legion and the V. F.W. and, so, was I. That was also one of the biggest reasons my mom shopped at Hallmark for years, because, in those organizations you are assigned each year to a secret pal, the Ladies Auxiliary and the Jr. Girls are. So, we would get a portion of our holiday and birthday gifts there for them. Especially the cards and, on the holidays by the checkout they had holiday 3D cartoonish pins and, back then, Hallmark stores were much cheaper and we would also find some different rare and unique gifts there and every once in awhile we were able to get the rest of our gifts there than rather running from one store to another, which was fine by me, because, my mom loved to shop.
The Kansas City Royals crest logo and script wordmark were designed by a Hallmark artist.
Cant forget the 1980s Scratch and Sniff sticker series Silly Scents!
I look forward to the Hallmark Holiday movies each year starting in the Fall. I live in Arizona where after a 7 month period of 110 to 115 degree (f) temperatures daily, those cool Fall colors and locations are very welcomed.
Really enjoyed. Thanks
Recollection Road is also a very enjoyable continuing education channel for me. Greeting cards are yet another little tidbit I'm sure people don't think much about, but I was amazed at the different aspects Hallmark expanded into. When you talked about the Hallmark Channel, I thought *duh!* why didn't I ever connect the two before this video?! 🤣
I miss the Hallmark Stores
I remember the Hallmark store.
My parents own two Hallmark card stores.
Blue bird of happiness
Hallmark Channel is on a whole lot during Christmas time in this household!
I am hoping Recollection Road will please do a video on Macy's, I mean it is my favorite department store and happens to be the oldest department store in the United States. I want one of my favorite CZcams channels to do a video on my favorite department store
Literally just left Hallmark in Kansas City about an hour ago! Cool content ❤️
Hallmark is original, creative and probably will not be duplicated. great American company. All good things.
There's a Hallmark plant in our town
Don’t know if you’ll see this at this late date , but my godfather and uncle is John Wagner who is the creator of Maxine We always had the best cards!!
My aunt Betty would alway check the back of all the greeting cards she received; just see if it was a hallmark card . Before she ever read the greeting
And..... to check the price. 😁
Awesome video
Thank you
I put in a request for you to get information from Gaffney SC. I know you haven't been covering old malls. This mall was built in late 60s are early 70s.l use to love that mall it was big enough with a Rose's and Belks it had a Bridal store and I think it had a drug store and ice cream shop. It had a little bit of everything. All the local kids loved it there. It also had a Radio Shack too. It's been torn down but it had a big parking lot. It was the place to hang out. Please try to cover that story. I'm from Blacksburg s.c. I loved going there to shop with my mom. She always had to go inside Belks. Thanks for letting me tell my story. Love your shows. You are the best!!!!
What was sold at Rose's and Belk's?
@@bostongirlsandy it was a big mall for the small town of Gaffney SC. It had Rose's, Belks ice cream shop and Radio Shack Anita's bridal shop and it had a small grocery store in the back.It was the perfect place to take your family and even Christmas shopping.
I got the black and white picture but I can't get it on your face page or message format.
@@bostongirlsandy I tried sending you a classic picture before they tore it down. It was big mall for that time of a decade. There were different stores in side and you could walk outside while you ate your ice cream that you just bought.It was built in the late 60s and with Wal-Mart building there store across the street it finally closed up and demolished it in late 70s or early 80s. You can find records of it at Gaffney SC library or maybe in Blacksburg s.c. library. It was amazing mall . you keep asking me what did they sale. A little bit of everything you wanted you could get it from that one mall.
best place i ever worked
this company is on life support. It has let so many employees go ion the last 10 years.
every year i always buy a keepsake ornament for my christmas tree
I ❤ this
Hallmark had a store in Deer Park, Texas.