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Across the Fence:  Montgomery Ward....they're still around?  |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 08:27:43 AM
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I was looking for a corner breakfast nook table and bench set for our kitchen, online, and ran across a really great one with a great price, to boot. But it's at Montgomery Ward. Now, I recall my gran talking about Montgomery Ward, but I didn't know they still existed...
Anyone ever by anything from them, or know anything about the store? Do they only do online sales, or do they actually still have physical locations?
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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Shi-anne
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cheryl
Ada
OK
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 09:01:19 AM
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There was a monkey wards store here years ago, but it has probably been 20 years at least. I don't know of any in our neck of the woods. I'm guessing they are either regional (somewhere) or strictly online.
Of course, OK only has one KMart store now too.
But yes, we bought our first freezer from Wards.
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 2:23:48 PM
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Originally posted by KYgurlsrbest
I was looking for a corner breakfast nook table and bench set for our kitchen, online, and ran across a really great one with a great price, to boot. But it's at Montgomery Ward. Now, I recall my gran talking about Montgomery Ward, but I didn't know they still existed...
Anyone ever by anything from them, or know anything about the store? Do they only do online sales, or do they actually still have physical locations?
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/
The montgomery wards when we lived in CA all went out of business and even some of the Kmarts, but I know some of them are around. We don't have either of those around here in TX. GET THIS.....my granny used to work in the sewing dept. of TG & Y!!! Remember that store???
AngiKay
For he is faithful that promised. Hebrews 10:23
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 2:30:25 PM
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AngiKay - Not only do I remember TG&Y, my friend Mike and I just talked about it a few days ago! :D He took a cedar box of vintage material out of his late mothers attic and a lot of it still had tags from Roses and TG&Y. She sewed a lot.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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Jami
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jami
Ellensburg
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 3:10:15 PM
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They closed up out here...but do you know, I still ride my horse in a monkey wards western roping saddle I bought with my 4-H lamb money in 8th grade? I love that saddle and prefer it to my newer one. It has MW stamped on the cinch holder and everyone always laughs that I have a saddle from Monkey Wards. Maybe someday it will be a collectors item?
Jami in WA
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 08 2008 : 3:18:03 PM
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Oh my...Angi we had a TG&Y store back when I was growing up. Pre-wally world, exciting stuff. It was beside the dollar movie place. Both sadly went out of business. We use to travel to Lexington to Roses. They still have one down in Somerset.
Dawhares here in Kentucky was a mainstay clothing business in a lot of towns throughout the state. Sadly though, all of the stores are closing up by October. :(
~Jessica in Kentucky & Farmgirl Sisterhood #137~
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:07:40 AM
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I heard about Dawhares on the news last week. So is Montgomery Ward's really still in business? I had no idea. And just as an online thing?
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:15:42 AM
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Well, I think it might be a mostly online thing...but not exclusively. They do have very good prices, though, and the shipping didn't seem too outrageous. Does anyone remember Rinks? That was about the only place in town to shop when I was little--that, and Ben Franklin.
Dawahares...gosh. We had one in the Florence Mall that opened in 1977...I scared my mother TO DEATH there by hiding in the clothes racks...she lost me and I lost her and I ended up out in front of the store crying and hollering "MY MOTHER LEFT ME!!!"...and two very lovely girls with angel-feathered hair, and flared trousers found me and then my mom found me, and it wasn't so lovely :)
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:20:01 AM
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Oh My gosh! I have fond memories of going to the local Ben Franklin's as a kid. My mom would be in the sewing section and I would go drool over the Breyer Horses in the toy section. It was a pretty sad day when Ben Franklin's had to go out of business in my home town, but I recently found out that Billings has one! How cool is that?!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:21:15 AM
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I remember Ben Franklin, but not Rinks. We had Kresge's and Rose's. I miss all those old 'five and dime' places.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 09 2008 : 08:30:04 AM
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Ben Franklin's used to be a 5 & 10 in my area. In Cheney and Spokane, WA they have a Ben Franklins that is unlike anything I have ever seen. They have lots of stuff. Wish we had one locally.
Betty in Pasco |
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Montgomery Ward....they're still around?
