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I don't recall who actually came up with the name, but Gene Autry came up with the name. As I said earlier...The web police are lurking and about to pounce...Let's "cease and desist" before it happens.
Pete
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From: Cy Svobodny <ctsvobodny@yahoo.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Dec 14, 2013 8:29 pm Subject: Re: MONKEY WARD is still around.......: Re: [CBQ] Re: 1956 mty stock cars eastbound I actually think Ruddy the red nosed raindeer was 1949.
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:41 PM, "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> wrote:
MW and Sears were both big shippers of LCL freight and express. The Q and other Chicago railroads ran "trap" cars to their warehouses.
They're doing strictly mail-order online operation. Monkey Ward was also responsible for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1939. And one more useless piece of BS was the mail-order war with Sears-Roebuck. Sears had their mail order catalog trimmed by a 1/4 inch or so on the sides so it was smaller than Wards. Now sitting on a coffee table with the Wards catalog on top it would look awkward so to make the stack look symmetric folk would naturally place the smaller catalog on top of the pile. Thereby the Sears catalog was always on top an easiest to reach..
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 2:45:42 PM Subject: Re: MONKEY WARD was: Re: [CBQ] Re: 1956 mty stock cars eastbound His name is Sewell Avery...It's just too easy to find this stuff out today.
Google President of MW and you'll get the whole story.
Now we better get off this thread before it's too late.
Pete
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From: Jpslhedgpeth <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Dec 14, 2013 2:43 pm Subject: Re: MONKEY WARD was: Re: [CBQ] Re: 1956 mty stock cars eastbound You guys are all correct...Almost...the name of the department store was Montgomery Ward...not WardS.
Noel thanks for the reminder of the President of MW being carried out in his chair...I had forgotten about that....I have forgotten his name, but I think I can find out....Just so YA KNOW...it isn't Montgomery or Ward.
Pete
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From: Noel Crawford <georgecrawfordsr@comcast.net> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sat, Dec 14, 2013 2:23 pm Subject: Re: MONKEY WARD was: Re: [CBQ] Re: 1956 mty stock cars eastbound Montgomery Wards aka Monkey Wards . Biggest competitor to Sears. Had really good products. I went through three of their life time car batteries for free. They got tired of seeing me coming. Like all good outfits in the 70' they went down the tube to total mismanagement. A famous picture in Life Magazine in 42 or 43 shows the President of Montgomery Wards being carried out of his office in his chair by soldiers because he refused to work with Roosevelt on the war effort. Had his own way which was probably better.
Noel
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