2000: Montgomery Ward & Co. — one of the nation’s oldest retailers and a venerable Chicago institution — announced it would ...

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. It was a ...

Baltimore historian Fred Shoken reminded me that two Baltimore institutions shared a 100th birthday celebration this year. He should know. He’s worked in both buildings. The big white concrete ...

SHEBOYGAN - The Sheboygan Press featured a nearly full-page story touting the June 1936 opening of the new Montgomery Ward store at 817-819 N. Eighth St. The 36,000-square-foot store featured three ...

Montgomery Ward, which filed for bankruptcy liquidation last week, will begin a chain-wide going-out-of-business sale today at each of its 258 stores across 30 states. Montgomery has two stores, ob ...

When did the Montgomery Ward store on the north side of Maine Street between Fifth and Sixth street close? Then a catalog store opened on the south side of Maine between Sixth and Seventh. When did it ...

Did you know... where the Montgomery Ward store was located? Ward was located at 1215 Willis Ave., there is an empty lot there today next to the Sinclair station. Montgomery Ward opened in 1928 and ...

It was a sound that hasn’t been heard in a while among the racks of windbreakers and sweatshirts in the active wear section. “Next in line, please!” sales clerk Gerald Rivera shouted Saturday to those ...

Take a nostalgic trip through 20 Detroit stores we still miss, from Blockbuster and KB Toys to Montgomery Ward and Fretter.