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Montgomery Ward announced Thursday that it would file for bankruptcy and close its 250 stores throughout the country, including its store at Longview's Triangle Mall. The move will put 37,000 ...
Montgomery Ward operated its retail store in the building ... Described as a “pedestrian mall” with shops, restaurants, and galleries. The enterprise only lasted until November 1979.
Montgomery Ward Inc., the country’s first catalog retailer ... out as shoppers flocked to nearby competitors. At the Panorama Mall in Panorama City, the Wards store was quiet while the original ...
The 1920s art deco building is a landmark of the Capital Region. Towering eight stories over Broadway, it welcomes drivers to Menands. What was once home to retail giant Montgomery Ward, the ...
As general manager of a Cedar Rapids' Westdale Mall, Mike McCue says the shuttering of the Montgomery Ward store is both a disappointment and an opportunity. ``Anytime you lose a tenant ...
Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, announced that within a year a chain of 150 retail stores would be in operation under their name. Anticipating anxiety in the minds of small town luncheon club ...
CHICAGO (AP) Montgomery Ward, the 128-year-old retailer that helped invent mail-order and ran stores in 30 states, is closing after losing customers to newer chains from Target to the Gap.
In 1939, Robert L. May was working as an in-house advertising copywriter at Montgomery Ward, a Chicago-based department store chain and catalog company. May dreamed of writing the great American ...