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The repair shop occupies about 3,000 ft 2 (280 m 2) of space in the Elderly building. [22] A number of notable guitarists have sent their instruments to Elderly for complete restoration or other major work such as refinishing and refretting. [11] Elderly's repair department services other fretted instruments such as banjos, ukuleles, and ...
[5] [9] Plans were also made to divide the former Montgomery Ward space into smaller shops. [10] Eventually, occupancy at Universal Mall rebounded to 75%, [5] although by 2007 it had declined to 48% (in part due to the closure of Mervyns' Michigan operations in 2006). [11]
The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the original Montgomery Ward shut down.
In 1932, the Duff Building was leased to Montgomery Wards, who purchased it in 1939. [2] To contain the Montgomery Wards store, the Duff building was combined with the Grow Block and a third building to create more space. Montgomery Wards remained in the building until the early 1980s. It was rehabilitated in 1983. [2]
A 1958 article in the Detroit Free Press described it as the "largest regional shopping center in western Wayne County". [1] At the time of opening in September 1959, the Montgomery Ward store at Wonderland Center was the largest in the chain. [2] One month later, Federal's opened for business as well. The store was the 31st in that chain. [3]
Northland Center was an enclosed shopping mall on an approximately 159-acre (64 ha) site located near the intersection of M-10 (the John C. Lodge Freeway) and Greenfield Road in Southfield, Michigan, an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Construction began in 1952 and the mall opened on March 22, 1954.
Summit Place Mall, originally Pontiac Mall, was a shopping mall in Waterford Township, Michigan, United States.Opened in 1962 as the first enclosed mall in Michigan, [1] [3] it was built on a 74-acre (30 ha) site.
Recording King started as a house brand for Montgomery Ward in the 1930s. [2] Guitarist John Fahey played a 1939 model. [7] [8] The original guitar was similar to the Gibson Advanced Jumbo, discontinued in 1939. [9] The brand was revived in 2007 by The Music Link in Hayward, CA.