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  2. JC Whitney - Wikipedia

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    The company closed its Chicago location and opened a new location in LaSalle, Illinois, in 1997. In 1934, Israel's son Roy joined his father at the company after graduating from the University of Chicago. Roy proposed expanding from the Chicago area with a nationwide catalog and placed an ad in Popular Mechanics for sixty dollars.

  3. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997. Service Merchandise – closed all its retail stores by early 2002; the name was resurrected in 2004 for an online retail operation [41] [42] Witmark – operated in southwestern Michigan; founded 1969, liquidated 1997 [43] [44]

  4. Victory Auto Wreckers - Wikipedia

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    Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...

  5. Service Merchandise - Wikipedia

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    After leaving the wholesale business, they opened Service Merchandise, Inc., the first of what evolved into a chain of catalog showrooms. It opened in 1960 at 309 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. [1] Older logo mainly used in the 1970s–1985. During the 1970s and 1980s, Service Merchandise was a leading catalog-showroom retailer.

  6. ‘You just can't make this stuff up’: An Illinois man had to ...

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    Wells Fargo told Monroe that he was incorrectly issued starter checks, and that his son at the University of Illinois would have to visit a Chicago branch in person to access any of the money.

  7. K's Merchandise Mart - Wikipedia

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    K's Merchandise Mart, Inc. (usually known as simply K's Merchandise) was a catalog showroom department store based in Decatur, Illinois. [2] It offered furniture, jewelry, and general merchandise, including electronics, at 17 locations in 5 Midwestern states at the time of its closing.

  8. Walker Electric Truck - Wikipedia

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    Walker Electric Trucks were battery-powered vehicles built from 1907 to 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. Initially designed and manufactured by the Walker Vehicle Company (not to be confused with the Walker Motor Car Company ) in Chicago, they were bought by the Anderson Electric Car Company of Detroit in 1916, then sold to ...

  9. Montgomery Ward Company Complex - Wikipedia

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    The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000. [7] In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City. [4] [5]