Re: MONTGOMERY WARDS STILL ALIVE
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:51
Montclair was completely torn down and rebuilt.
Mission Valley San Diego became a Target.
Mission Valley San Diego became a Target.
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Two in Portland, OR were also turned into two-story Target stores:Jeff wrote:Montgomery Wards Huntington Beach, still sitting empty.
Former Wards turned into Target:
Eagle Rock
Rosemead
Fullerton
Lakewood
Rosemead was just gutted. The 2nd Level is empty, but the first level is Target. This store was huge. A MONTGOMERY WARD labelscar can be seen faintly on the northside of the building near the new Target enterance.J-Man wrote:As far as I can tell, the Rosemead Target was also a complete teardown/rebuild of the Wards. And the one in Covina (across from Eastland, which is in West Covina) was torn down and the location now houses an IKEA (relocated from Puente Hills--the former STOR.)
The Wards in Country Club Centre in Sacramento became a two-level Wal-Mart.
Prior to its Riverside Plaza location, MW was housed in a small, 3-story building located downtown at the corner of Ninth and Main streets (now the site of a small parking lot). Not exactly sure when this downtown store opened, but it was likely sometime during the 1950s as it replaced an earlier downtown MW store that was removed to make way for the Riverside Freeway (1957).ieguy441 wrote:When did Wards enter the Riverside Plaza? I know that the WT Grants opened after 1957 and it became Wards thereafter.
But when?
The location was torn down (with the rest of Riverside Plaza minus Harris') when the Plaza was redeveloped a few years ago into a small "lifestyle" center.
Wow that's incredible. How did you get into the old Hawthorne Plaza?Barstow2Needles wrote:Probably the most interesting re-use of a Montgomery Wards was the former store at the now abandoned Hawthorne Plaza (Hawthorne, California). The entire department store has been gutted and transferred into government offices for the City of Hawthorne. While visiting the mall a few months ago I took a picture of the Montgomery Ward mall courtyard--you can see how the exact same view looked like many years ago...
(http://usera.imagecave.com/djrun1/montg ... thorne.jpg)
Jeff,Jeff wrote:
Wow that's incredible. How did you get into the old Hawthorne Plaza?
I've been wanting to go in and look at it.
Hows the interior of the old Broadway and JCPenney stores holding out?
Heck I'd love to go if you set something up! As long as we can take pictures for a "location scout"/Barstow2Needles wrote:Jeff,Jeff wrote:
Wow that's incredible. How did you get into the old Hawthorne Plaza?
I've been wanting to go in and look at it.
Hows the interior of the old Broadway and JCPenney stores holding out?
Hi Jeff!
A real estate investment company currently owns the mall and makes money on the side by using the former mall for filming locations (was featured in Minority Report, Fast & Furious, and a Kings of Leon music video). Anyhow, I called the company and asked for a tour and next thing I know I'm traveling back to the 1970's as I stroll the old rectangular-tiled floor corridors.
The interior of JC Penney & Broadway are partially intact with a lot of rubble/debris from vandalism and general deterioration over the years. I didn't see much of the JC Penney department store because it was dark but the mall's skylight provided some light inside the Broadway -- pretty much in the same condition as Penney's but I spotted a "Fitting Room" with the sign still in place and an original store hours sticker.
Let me know if you want to see more pictures or need help visiting the mall...
The phone number to call to set up your "location scout" of the Hawthorne Plaza is: [contact author of post offline for this]Jeff wrote: Heck I'd love to go if you set something up! As long as we can take pictures for a "location scout"/
Wow. When I lived in Pico Rivera in the late 1980's; my now x wife and I used to go to that IKEA----------back when it was simply named 'StØr'. I tried to find the appropriate lower case o with the / but gave up on my character map.Dean wrote:Still have my WARDS charge cards. NEVER used them.
The San Bernardino CA store is still sitting vacant.
The West Covina CA site was demolished/transformed into IKEA, which had moved from the City of Industry.
The City of Industry IKEA was demolished.
Funny how this thread is up today...as I literally thought of MW last night.scanman2 wrote:Montclair was torn down and a Target is there. The Target in Ortario which was a FedMart closed when Montclair opened.