In 1939, Robert L. May was working as an in-house advertising copywriter at Montgomery Ward, a Chicago-based department store ...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, created by Robert L. May in 1939, began as a promotional story for Montgomery Ward, a Chicago department store. Intended to replace their annual Santa-themed coloring ...

“Sears and Montgomery Ward — that’s pretty much where ... Wood opened the first Sears retail store in Chicago in 1925. By 1931, retail sales had surpassed mail-order sales.

Draped in multicolor string lights and blasting Christmas music, a group of over 20 skaters weaved through the streets of ...

A quiet, cold air settled over the nearly abandoned shopping center in Gary, broken only by the faint creak of a door and the ...

We won’t give away the ending – if you nose, you nose – but here are a few facts and historical tidbits surrounding a ...

2001 - PUEBLO - Jim and Enid McCurdy walked slowly, hand in hand, through the Montgomery Ward store that anchors ... and four months in the same store, said, "It feels kind of sad; I hate to go." ...

The clerk at the Montgomery-Ward store promised the Christmas present would be promptly ... After the “California” sank, he ...

Chicago department store Montgomery Ward saw the potential of a Christmas campaign for drumming up business, and they commissioned copywriter Robert L. May to create a character who they could ...

The clerk at the Montgomery-Ward store promised the Christmas present ... After the “California” sank, he joined the crew of the U.S.S. “Chicago,” a heavy cruiser that steamed into Pearl ...

After she moved to Chicago in 2001 ... roller skate factories and the Montgomery Ward mail-order warehouse where employees traversed the large space wearing skates. Grosspietsch, who has been ...