Montgomery Ward

Former Montgomery Ward in Augusta, GA. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Mike Kalasnik from Fort Mill, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

 Department Store December continues with Montgomery Ward. It had left Syracuse by the time I could remember, and Utica was the closest. I only got to go in Poughkeepsie (that area could use a post of its own since I picked up so much from that time). Wards survives today as an e-tailer, but that's just too easy, of course. We like to remember a simpler time when you either got out to shop or ordered from the catalogue through the post or even over the phone (I'm getting on now!). Most of these were catalogue stores as opposed to full-fledged locations, especially in smaller plazas and areas (even though the Hudson and Mohawk Valley stores were mall anchors from later years). They also owned Lechmere in its final three years, which would be better off in its own post, but I only know of a few of those stores along the Thruway corridor (including Dutchess County).

Syracuse (Lyncourt)  - Shop City Plaza; TBD (just too old to figure out exactly where it was)

Syracuse (north side) - Carousel Center (now Destiny USA) - Lechmere; later Circuit City and DSW; now Hobby Lobby

Cheektowaga - Walden Galleria; Lechmere; later JCPenney Home; now DSW*

Albany - Northway Mall, NY 5; also had Lechmere; now Target*

Cicero - Marketplace Mall, US 11 & E Circle Dr

Lockport - Lockport Mall, NY 78*

Poughkeepsie - Poughkeepsie Galleria, US 9; now DSW and Dicks; also had Lechmere*

Fulton - NY 3?

Utica - Riverside Mall, NY 5/8/12/49

Augusta, GA - Pictured*

Baldwinsville - Tri-County Mall

Johnson City - Oakdale Mall*

Cazenovia - Town & Country Plaza, US 20

Plattsburgh - Pyramid Mall, NY 3*

Menands - Office building, NY 32*

North Syracuse - North Plaza, US 11

*Non-CNY