Did You Know Montgomery Ward Is Still A Thing???

For some reason it will not let me post a link to www (dot) wards (dot) com

Yes, they sent me a bathtub and a crosscut saw!

I bought a blender my mother's birthday gift. When we started it up, it broke, and pieces of it went flying across the room. It didn't even chop up the food that was in it. I took it back, and the cashier sighed that he had been accepting returns all day long. This was in 1990.

No, I did not I thought it was completely defunct.

r3

What unholy thing did you use it for before giving it to your mother.

It is around, but is a completely different company. Direct Marketing Services Inc. bought the intellectual property, after Wards was liquidated. Later Swiss Colony bought DMSI.

There are still a few White Front stores, sadly no Ohrbach's.

Yes, I did know that MW still existed as does Spiegel.

Can't wait to order my lawnmower from MW and bedding from "Spiegels, Chicago, 60611". Let's see if anyone else remembers the TV show where the Spiegels address was always stated with the zip code?

My parents bought a shed from Montgomery Wards and put it together in our yard. It was quite the occasion.

OP, Cirxuit City and CompUSA are also still around too.

They are? I will meet you over in the stereo department: Electric Avenue.

Wow, I didn't know Montgomery Ward was still around or are they doing catalog stuff only?

My dad was a manager at Montgomery Wards for a few years. The set-up was weird. The town we lived in was only 14,000 people, so the store was small. The Wards was basically an small auto department, a small electronics department, some appliances, and it was a pickup location for catalog orders. That said, I never went to any other Wards in my life, so I'm not sure what the norm was for a Wards store.

There is exactly one Blockbuster video store left, in Oregon. The national chain is gone but this store had always been a privately owned franchise store.

As mentioned above there are several nationally known store/brand names that are still around but only in in the sense of new owners bought the intellectual property rights to the old names. I think that both Brink's and Bausch + Lomb fall into this category but I'm open to correction.

[quote]Can't wait to order my lawnmower from MW and bedding from "Spiegels, Chicago, 60611". Let's see if anyone else remembers the TV show where the Spiegels address was always stated with the zip code?

I don't remember the show—The Price is Right?—but wasn't the Spiegel zip code 60609, as in "Spiegel, Chicago, Illinois, 60609"?

Elders used to call it " Monkey Ward." Couldn't do that today.

R15, you beat me to it about the zip code. You're right.

Worked a summer job at Montgomery Ward in the late '70s at Oak Park Mall in Overland, Kansas. Was pushing polyester in the men's department, me and a bunch of pompadoured old guys smelling of Brylcream. Only lasted a few weeks and then got a better job working at a deli in the same mall.

Before ZIP codes, quiz shows originating in New York gave a Post Office box number plus "New York 46, New York." Zone 46 was created for radio and TV "Contest Mail.

I want to sat The Newlywed Game, but maybe it was Let's Make a Deal?

Answer...Monty Hall on Let's Make a Deal, the door would open and Monty would say, Jay Stewart, "What Did they Win"?. Jay Stewart respond by providing a detail of the prize and if it was from Speigel, he would say "........ from Speigel, Chicago Illinois 60611"

It’s only online now. I think it’s called Wards.

When the evil Bain took it over and squeezed all the wealth away from the employees, they couldn’t resist stripping it all the way down, even its name.

from Spiegel's Wikipedia page:

[quote]Spiegel benefited from television exposure and advertising in the form of prizes given away on several game shows, most notably The Hollywood Squares and Let's Make a Deal. Announcers emphasized Spiegel's large catalog offerings in on-air promotional announcements and [bold]included Spiegel's Chicago zip code, 60609[/bold]. Often these programs would award contestants gift certificates of a certain dollar amount toward catalog items, giving winners the flexibility to choose their own prize.

That's 60609, r21. What's this 60611 business?

R22 They use the Wards.com address that the original company had established before going out of business. But their header on the website and catalog is Montgomery Ward. They employ a version of the classic 1980s Montgomery Ward logo.

I just took a huge dump.

R23...Thanks for the correction. I was wrong about the Zip Code but remember Let's Make a Deal.

[quote]My parents bought a shed from Montgomery Wards and put it together in our yard. It was quite the occasion.

Dreadful hillbillies

[quote] Only lasted a few weeks and then got a better job working at a deli in the same mall.

Translation: I got fired for inviting the male customers into the restroom for unholy acts

Monkey Ward had a store and auto shop in my small town. My parents, would buy from MW or Sears before any other brand name appliance, lawnmower, tires, etc. When we cleaned out my parents house this past summer, we noticed a number of MW items that still worked after being used for 50 or more years. Maybe they were right??

I remember an episode of Bewitched when some snooty wives of one of Darrin's clients having lunch with Samantha. One of them says how sweet her wardrobe is and asks who designs her clothes. Samantha says, "I have two. Their names are Sears and Roebuck." I always thought it would have been more apt for her to say "Montgomery and Ward."

r28, I wish. Was way too closeted at that point, even to myself, to have ever taken the chance.

I bought my 1st rape whistle there.

[quote]Later Swiss Colony bought DMSI

I love their beef logs

Wards where America shops

My first job, between hs and college, was at a Wards. I am a bit nostalgic about it. Probably just about my youth.

The eldergays will remember Dicker & Dicker Of Beverly Hills from all the game shows in the 60s-70s. They're still around, selling dead animal skins. How, I don't know.

My parents were always loyal to Montgomery Ward because they were the only store who would extend them credit when they first got married. That was back in the early 70s when credit cards weren't as common and it was much harder to get one.

[quote]Before ZIP codes, quiz shows originating in New York gave a Post Office box number plus "New York 46, New York." Zone 46 was created for radio and TV "Contest Mail.

And Spiegel was "Chicago 9, Illinois."