That was the first-of-its-kind promise made by Aaron Montgomery Ward, who founded the original mail-order catalog in 1872. Ward, a native of Chatham, N.J., moved first to Michigan and then Chicago in ...
In the 1960s and 70s, the Montgomery Ward's department stores offered something called the Wendy Ward Charm School for teenage girls. Once a week the girls would meet in a room above the ...
It housed warehouse operations for Montgomery Ward department stores until it closed NW Portland operations in 1982. Portland developer and Naito Parkway namesake Bill Naito purchased the flagging ...
“Lost Chicagoland Department Stores” will debut at the ... fashion displays from Marshall Field & Co., Sears, Montgomery Ward, and Carson Pirie Scott; plus interactive displays, including ...
She was on the cover of Life magazine and performed for Johnny Carson. She was, her daughter said, “a badass and a goody two-shoes at the same time.” ...
And when she started skateboarding, or “sidewalk surfing,” she was one of only a few girls to join the boys in her neighbourhood, flying down a hill on Loring Street atop a makeshift board her brother ...
After more than half a century, a holiday classic is headed home. The beloved Rankin/Bass Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is leaving CBS and going back to NBC. The telecast is ...