monkey ward

bumblebee · Jul 6, 2017

Nothing has really changed, used to order from the Monkey Ward catalog, now we order on line.
Well, I spose some of you were no mature enough, sorry, should have said old enough.

pat sublett · Jul 6, 2017

Did you know that a Monkey Ward marketing manager created Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer in Fort Worth. Sleigh and reindeer were in a display window in the headquarters building on W 7th street and he stuck a red light bulb in the lead deer's nose and called him Rudolph, the rest is history.

donjr · Jul 6, 2017

Funny this thread has been created. I've been cleaning out my tool shed (so far close to thirty yards of trash and junk) and have been sorting thru some of the buck boxes I have collected at various sales. One of the items I found was a monkey ward seatbelt. NOS, still in the package. I just put a rops on my 2520, so I might just put this seatbelt to good use......

Russ from MN · Jul 6, 2017

I have a Monkey Wards sabre saw, bought it in about 67, still works well. All metal body and a soft rubber cord that never gets stiff in the cold!

Steve@Advance · Jul 6, 2017

I made many a trip to the Ft Worth store, in tow behind my mom!

That store had just about everything! What wasn't in the store could be ordered from a huge catalog. You could place your order and pay at a service counter, then walk around to the catalog department, take a number, and wait for the order to come out.

We used to get several of those catalogs a year, along with the sale catalogs and Christmas catalog. I would spend hours pouring through those things, looking at all the goodies I couldn't afford! Started out with the toys, but soon I could imaging being everything from a motorcycle racer to a scuba diver! LOL

Sure miss that place. The storefront building is still there, but now it's upscale condos on top, specialty restaurants on bottom. The warehouse is torn down, replaced with a Target store.
Montgomery Plaza

NEKS · Jul 6, 2017

When I was a kid we had a neighbor that said you couldn't make money farming unless you had Oliver tractors and Monkey Ward tires.

D beatty · Jul 6, 2017

Have a set of monkey wards tires on rear of my F20.

gab · Jul 7, 2017

A couple of years ago we were in Chicago to see our daughter and she took us on an architecture tour on the Chicago river. Had a real good girl on the boat explaining every thing about the buildings along the river. One huge building, maybe more I'm pretty sure she said was a monkey ward warehouse and in order to work there you had to be able to roller skate. Building was so big when an order came in it had to be found and shipped right now. That was a nice tour, girl new every building, architect who built it, how many floors, what kind of materials used, the different styles, date built and so on.

rrlund · Jul 7, 2017

Hey now! Here's my 70 with Wards Riverside tires. I'm makin a good enough living that I don't have to use it anymore.

1206SWMO · Jul 7, 2017

Heres my 1950 model ER Wards tractor..

The Dukester · Jul 7, 2017

Had an uncle who went to work at Ward's Farm Store in Hillsdale, Mi (our county seat) in the late 1940's, so we had Wards 11-38 tires on the Farmall H, 1 Wards-Avery 2-14 tractor plow, 2 Wards Lo-load wagon trucks under our 7 X 14 flat racks, a Wards 10 inch Grainbuster hammer mill, and a Wards Simplicity walk behind garden tractor. Farm store closed in 1952, department store stayed open several more years, I bought a new refrigerator there in 1980. Wards, Sears, Western Auto, Gambles, Penny's, and Woolworth's, were all there, now all gone......

Hayfarmer · Jul 7, 2017

I still use my Monkey Ward AC welder, I think it was made by Marquett. I bought it because a friend had one and I used it a lot and really liked it. I also have a Bar B Q grill from Wards. Heavy cast top and bottom. It will be 40 years old next year and still working good. I remember a Wards store in town. And of course waiting for the Wards and Sears Christmas toy catalog to arrive in the mail.

JMS/.MN · Jul 7, 2017

You mentioned catalogs....Montgomery Wards was physically taller and wider than the Sears book. Guess which one got picked up first? I think Wards might have lost some sales due to that.

Sprint 6 · Jul 7, 2017

My son mowed our yard yesterday with the Montgomery Ward 16 garden tractor my Grandpa bought new from the local Wards lawn and garden department in 1974.

PaGlenn · Jul 7, 2017

Found a stack of those catalogs next to the stack of sears catalogs in the Outhouse after buying the farm.

IA Roy · Jul 7, 2017

We had monkey wards in Marshalltown when I was growing up. Dad had wagon running gears and bought farm and car tires there. They had a farm store south of the courthouse and the department store on main street north of the courthouse. About 1971 or 2 they built a new store and it didnt seem like very long they went out of business and after awhile K-mart moved in. That was about the time it changed from Kresge 5 and dime.

NIK OWEN · Jul 7, 2017

is that down by the river??...be blessed, grateful, prepared...

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