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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.
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.
Because Montgomery Ward's catalogs were widely distributed in rural areas, country music was a large part of Montgomery Ward's catalog, including many releases of importance to collectors. [2] [3] The records were priced for consumers at well below industry average, 21 cents per record or $1.79 in groups of ten. [3]
They are differentiated from later Gibson banjos by their scarcity. Banjo sales plummeted during the Great Depression, for lack of buyers, and metal parts became scarce into the 1940s as factories shifted to support the war. [1] As parts became scarce, non-standard versions came out, made from a variety of leftover parts, called floor sweep ...
Jack White (The White Stripes) playing red Montgomery Ward Airline Res-O-Glas (a.k.a. J. B. Hutto, Jetsons) [1] Airline was a store brand of consumer electronics and musical instruments originally marketed and sold by American retailer Montgomery Ward through their catalog and retail stores. Products included radios, televisions, record players ...
Richard I. Berger (born 1952) is the president. Before becoming president, he had overseen the Trophy Grover Company and Grossman Musical Products, which in 1983, was one of the largest distributors of musical instruments in the U.S. Grossman Musical Products was founded in 1922 by his great uncle, Henry Saul Grossman (1898–1995) [5] who, from 1953 to 1966, owned Rogers Drums.
Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000-square-foot (190,000 m 2) Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward's operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors ...
Samuel Swaim Stewart (January 8, 1855—April 6, 1898), also known as S. S. Stewart, was a musician, composer, publisher, and manufacturer of banjos. [3] He owned the S. S. Stewart Banjo Company, which was one of the largest banjo manufacturers in the 1890s, manufacturing tens-of-thousands of banjos annually. [4]