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Thread Number: 32312
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
Sears or Montgomery Ward |
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| Post# 355295 7/4/2016 at 00:00 (2,850 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
I've always been a Sears guy. I never really knew Montgomery. I can only recall going to it once as a kid. We had Sears catalogs around but not Montgomery. We did have a Montgomery microwave and washer. Otherwise our stuff was all Sears.
So I still feel a connection to Sears today. And I spent many hours going through the catalogs as a kid and young teen. Sears always felt respectable, I always imagined a fancy colonial home in Chicago or a farmhouse in Iowa and them getting everything from Sears. To me the Home Alone house or Katherine's mansion would be all Kenmore and Craftsman. Lol | ||
| Post# 355348 , Reply# 2 7/4/2016 at 22:10 (2,849 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Sears. | ||
Post# 355401 , Reply# 3 7/5/2016 at 14:03 (2,848 days old) by jfalberti  (Visalia, CA) |
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We shopped both | ||
| Post# 355433 , Reply# 4 7/5/2016 at 19:21 (2,848 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH) | ||
We had a Montgomery Wards which carried rebadged Eureka's and Hoover's. We also had a Swallens about 25 minutes away that had a huge selection of vacuum cleaners. That was back in the 70's....when vacuums like Eureka and Hoover, were made to last a lifetime. We also had a Middletown Vacuum Cleaner store (owner closed and retired) and a Fussneckers, that is still in business in a few locations in Dayton Ohio.
The original Mr. Fussnecker would do specialty work. I once wanted the Eureka Twin Power Automatic 2070, but I wanted the square handle that came on the model 260. I agreed to buy it and he switched the handle at no charge. Just took a couple extra days to get. His son owns the business now and I tried to get specialty work done and they don't do any of that anymore. Long story short, I traded that specialty vacuum in for the new ESP models that came out several years later......I do have a model 260 with the original square handle and also had a 6 amp two speed motor in it. It is a great vacuum cleaner for daily use, however the 6 amp two speed motor was unnecessary as the 3.5 amp cleaned just as well.....live and learn. PR-21 Bud | ||
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Post# 355449 , Reply# 5 7/5/2016 at 22:16 (2,848 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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My late brother was a HUGE Sears guy! Craftsman and "Lady Kenmore" all over the place. He also had a Hamilton Beach canister, and a Hoover Convertible, which sat in a closet for years!! My sister-in-law went to the Eureka side. Never used Convertible attachments sat in the basement. She set the pace yearsago, for sure. I loved him, but........ what can you do?
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| Post# 355490 , Reply# 6 7/6/2016 at 10:07 (2,847 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
We had a nice Sears, the anchor store to our " mall" in the early 60s, still there, half dead looking now :( Our Wards parents called it Monkey also! Must be an okie thing? Was big too, this was in Marysville, where Sears was on other side of Yuba City. Reality about 4 miles apart. Sears seemed then to me have higher quality general goods?? Our Wards had a lot to pick from, hardware, paint, big auto. Long gone now of course. Mom had a Wards charge, so most times they got the business, some sears. My first vacuum I bought was a little hand held from Sears in the 60s, a Douglas I am sure. $20 I think?
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Post# 355560 , Reply# 10 7/7/2016 at 10:46 (2,846 days old) by Vinvac (Dubuque IA) |
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Brings back memories,
Monkey Wards...just what I remember it being called. My parents rarely ever bought anything new. They always bought someone else's junk...second hand shoppers. However we did have a Montgomery Ward washing machine and Stove. Gas of course for the stove. That washer lasted for many years. As a kid I would love looking thru the Sears and Wards catalogs. Now we don't have a Sear's store any where close. They closed out Dubuque store about 3 years ago. closest one is now about an hour away. | ||
| Post# 355572 , Reply# 11 7/7/2016 at 13:26 (2,846 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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#Dartman: Yeah, Danaher, Sears' supplier for Craftsman hand tools, moved all their manufacturing operations to China almost a decade ago.
I found this out about five or six years ago when I bought a Craftsman ratchet on eBay for next to nothing and found the mechanism to be frozen up when I received it. When I went to Sears to get a replacement, I was disappointed to see "Made in China" stamped on the new tools they had on display. The ratchets in particular, with their plastic direction switches, looked cheap compared to their American-made predecessors. But I thought hey, a working Chinese ratchet is better than a non-working American one. When I went up to the counter, the clerk (actually the department manager, according to his name badge) didn't mince words and to my surprise didn't pull a brand new Chinese made ratchet off the wall. Instead, he checked the model number on my ratchet and pulled an identical rebuilt American made one out of a toolbox behind the counter. He then rang up the replacement ratchet on the register for inventory purposes and handed me a receipt showing that I had been credited one penny for the trashed one I'd just turned in and charged one penny for the replacement, making a net transaction of $0.00. When I got home, I contacted the eBay seller to let her know what had happened and that the problem was solved. She was very apologetic and offered me a refund, which I declined since the rebuilt American ratchet I got from Sears was literally better than (Chinese) new. | ||
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