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Post by kenlarsson on Apr 8, 2024 19:53:04 GMT -5
I'd almost forgotten this alternative to Sears that was around when most of us were kids. I thought they probably had gone out of business, but today out of the blue we got their latest catalog in the mail. Claire and I commented on it and this evening she was thumbing through it and came across a two page layout of sex toys, dildos for the ladies, suction devices for the men. Not the Montgomery Ward I remembered.........
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Post by millring on Apr 8, 2024 19:58:06 GMT -5
I was delivering those catalogs today. I didn't look inside.
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Post by factorychef on Apr 8, 2024 20:24:27 GMT -5
The quality of some of their products aren't very good.
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Post by Dub on Apr 8, 2024 20:40:03 GMT -5
I'd almost forgotten this alternative to Sears that was around when most of us were kids. I thought they probably had gone out of business, but today out of the blue we got their latest catalog in the mail. Claire and I commented on it and this evening she was thumbing through it and came across a two page layout of sex toys, dildos for the ladies, suction devices for the men. Not the Montgomery Ward I remembered......... You're not dealing with the real Montgomery Ward, you're dealing with a shadowy marketing group that acquired the name, logo and intellectual property of the defunct retailer. From Wikipedia:
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Post by John B on Apr 8, 2024 21:30:58 GMT -5
So it's John Baumann's fault?
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Post by Dub on Apr 8, 2024 21:35:56 GMT -5
So it's John Baumann's fault? Well duh.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 8, 2024 21:39:27 GMT -5
So it's John Baumann's fault? < Bauman >
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Post by Marty on Apr 8, 2024 21:49:48 GMT -5
I'd almost forgotten this alternative to Sears that was around when most of us were kids. I thought they probably had gone out of business, but today out of the blue we got their latest catalog in the mail. Claire and I commented on it and this evening she was thumbing through it and came across a two page layout of sex toys, dildos for the ladies, suction devices for the men. Not the Montgomery Ward I remembered......... Wud ya order?
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Post by John B on Apr 8, 2024 21:54:32 GMT -5
So it's John Baumann's fault? < Bauman > < Did you not read the article Mark posted >
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Apr 8, 2024 23:17:59 GMT -5
< Did you not read the article Mark posted > Bill's correcting the spelling of the Bauman who is our millring.
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Post by John B on Apr 8, 2024 23:37:54 GMT -5
Yes.
My post was funny if you saw "Baumann" in Dub's post, and then realized it sounded just like "Bauman." So pointing out it's John Baumann's fault makes it seem like I'm saying it's John Bauman's fault, but that's not wnat I'm saying.
This horse is dead.
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Post by howard lee on Apr 9, 2024 6:52:23 GMT -5
In the early days of the 20th century, a person could order the components of an entire house from the Sears catalog and assemble it on their home site. Sears was at least 75 years ahead of Ikea...
People must have been more resourceful one hundred years ago.
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Post by Village Idiot on Apr 9, 2024 8:08:34 GMT -5
There are two Sears houses in Vinton, still being lived in.
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Post by Marty on Apr 9, 2024 8:13:24 GMT -5
Sears did a LOT of home models over the years. I caught a YouTube video about people that find and photograph those homes like a collector.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Apr 9, 2024 8:24:39 GMT -5
In the early days of the 20th century, a person could order the components of an entire house from the Sears catalog and assemble it on their home site. Sears was at least 75 years ahead of Ikea... People must have been more resourceful one hundred years ago. I noticed the disclaimer "Not cut or fitted." So you better have some skills. Our nickname for Montgomery Wards was "Monkey Wards." I think my first guitar was an Airline from Wards, their version of the Harmony guitars that Sears sold as Silvertone.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Apr 9, 2024 11:25:00 GMT -5
It seems completely wrong to me that anyone can buy some defunct trademark and use it and whatever goodwill the namesake created for their own ends.
Mike
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Post by epaul on Apr 9, 2024 12:43:37 GMT -5
Guild, Recording King, Silvertone, (Gibson?)
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Post by Russell Letson on Apr 9, 2024 13:03:33 GMT -5
Guild has been acquired a couple of times, but not, as far as I know, by venture capitalists. The current ownership is Yamaha, which, like previous owners Fender and Cordoba, is actually an instrument-making outfit. Which does not, I suppose, mean that the funding didn't somehow come from the venture-capital world--just that Guild is not necessarily burdened with a bunch of debt that its new ownership will somehow shed while stripping all the assets for a quick return.
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Post by Marty on Apr 9, 2024 13:36:50 GMT -5
StewMac owns the Waverly brand of high quality tuners. The original Waverly's were fairly nasty tuners used by just about everybody. StewMac also offers Golden Age tuners, a very good tuner line that are direct replacements for those old Waverly and Kluson tuners. If you order the correct set they will match the original screw holes. I've used them on many of my rebuilds.
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Post by epaul on Apr 9, 2024 13:40:16 GMT -5
And Swiss Colony (current owner of Montgomery Wards is an actual catalog company that has an established reputation as a mail order company. And it sounds like they are trying to reestablish Montgomery Wards as a decent outfit.
True, the original Montgomery Wards didn't sell sex toys back in the day. But, that was a different day. Today, Amazon sells "adult toys" and Target sells things that can be used as sex toys (with a little imagination). And the most successful fund raiser our church had in the last year by a country mile was its "Adult Playtime" promotion (people felt so much more comfortable buying their "adult playthings" from the church rather than some seedy store downtown).
-Ok, so the church shot down my idea of having an "Adult Playtime" fundraiser. Their mistake, I'm sure it would have brought in a bundle. Maybe next year?
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