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I'm not sure exactly where, geographically, Terry and the guerillas are at this point, but it seems like they have to be reasonably close to a decent sized town and not out there in warlord country, if only for the fact that we see a lot of vehicle traffic coming and going. Or maybe they've got radio-telegraph going.
Add to the just-like-a-movie quality of the holdup story the fact that the poor cop was "scheduled to retire in a few weeks." Oooweeee.
I also have to wonder what the reaction was of the shoppers in Altman's when all this erupted. "Why, they're used to this sort of thing in Woolworth's certainly -- but Altman's? My deeah, it just isn't DONE."
I can't imagine swapping labels, but I suppose some people might do that for a label that might be seen, like inside a coat. Otherwise, it sounds like something pretty desperate -- the same type of people who, today, leave the label on the *outside* of a coat.
When I first got to NYC in the '80s, that Altman's store was still there and it was a beautiful old store, surprisingly not crazy expensive, but you could tell it was dying as it was always pretty quiet in there. I liked to walk through it (you could enter on Madison and exit on 5th or vice versa, same with 35th Street) on my way to somewhere as it was that cool architecturally.
As presented in the TV show "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," set in the early '60s, Altman's does seem like it was the type of store you describe back in its day.