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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]
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.
[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 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 ...
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.
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.
The two wings of the L-shaped structure were joined in 1958 with the construction of the mall's anchor tenant, Montgomery Ward, which opened its doors in February, 1959. Easily the largest business in the center at 133,000 sq ft (12,400 m 2), a separate auto shop along Eureka Road was also built that year. [6]
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]