--WebTV-Mail-16194-1032 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sam & Jim--I think we are all correct! We sent our mail orders way back when to Albany, the store was in Menands, it had at least 7 floors, and was a complete department store as well as a distribution point. I think they went to Chicago after closing the store operations there. It was a great place to visit--lots of items not found in one's local stores or the big and sale catalogs. Nina Searching: SWIM, GINNER/GINGER, PIANO, BUTLER; PAVEK, DREW, CURRY, VOUGHT; BRUSH, BAILEY, RYERSON, WEYANT; Orange County, NY http://community.webtv.net/grannycatz/MYSWIMMINGPOOL --WebTV-Mail-16194-1032 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-2114.public.lawson.webtv.net (172.16.213.124) by storefull-2334.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.41]) by smtpin-2114.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id E447FFE35; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:41:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id h771dimi020475; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:39:44 -0600 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:39:44 -0600 Message-Id: <200308070139.h771dimi020475@lists5.rootsweb.com> From: NY-HUDSONRV-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 #105 X-Loop: NY-HUDSONRV-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NY-HUDSONRV-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume03/105 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: NY-HUDSONRV-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com X-Brightmail: Message tested, results are inconclusive ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 105 Today's Topics: #1 [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D Diges [grannycatz@webtv.net (nina brush)] #2 RE: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D D ["James Brady" <brady.j@att.net>] #3 Re: [HudsonRV] Re: Mapquest, etc. [SwimBails@aol.com] #4 Re: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D D ["S. Ferguson" <samf1@ghg.net>] #5 Re: [HudsonRV] Re: Mapquest, etc. ["Chris Andrle" <chris@andrle.com>] Administrivia: Please visit the following URL to review the guidelines for subscribing/unsubscribing, etc. to the list: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/HudsonRV/ To contact the NY-HUDSONRV-D list administrator, send mail to NY-HUDSONRV-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:26:55 -0400 (EDT) From: grannycatz@webtv.net (nina brush) To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <26515-3F30595F-1755@storefull-2331.public.lawson.webtv.net> Subject: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 #104 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Does anyone remember that Menands was the home and main offices of Montgomery Ward, the big mail-order company, back in the 30s and 40s? Just beyond the northern border of Albany. Nina ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:18:10 -0400 From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000001c35bd1$ecf99d20$5a52590c@its-temp1.worldnet.att.net> Subject: RE: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 #104 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nina, Maybe I'm wrong, but I remember those Montgomery Ward's catalogs as showing the home office in Chicago. Did they have a regional warehouse operation or something in Menands? I do seem to remember seeing a very large warehouse-type building near Albnay Rural Cemetery when I visited last year. Jim -----Original Message----- From: nina brush [mailto:grannycatz@webtv.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:27 PM To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 #104 Does anyone remember that Menands was the home and main offices of Montgomery Ward, the big mail-order company, back in the 30s and 40s? Just beyond the northern border of Albany. Nina ==== NY-HUDSONRV Mailing List ==== The NY-HudsonRV Mailing List Website http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/HudsonRV/ Site good for unsubbing, changing subscription, archives, links, etc. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:50:00 EDT From: SwimBails@aol.com To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <91.3162b5da.2c627da8@aol.com> Subject: Re: [HudsonRV] Re: Mapquest, etc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't know where Expedia and Mapquest get their maps from but i have heard that the major map makers make small errors each year as a way to copyright their products. If the errors show up in something that is sold, they sue. Usually they take some very small street (like North St.in North Albany) and either move it or wipe it out completely. One year, our little one block dead-end street was wiped out by Rand McNalley and we had an awful time with deliveries of UPS, pizza and other things for one year. Then they picked on someone else. :-( Perhaps this is what happened to you, Katherine. Jean In a message dated 8/5/03 11:08:52 AM, kgb2@centurytel.net writes: << I don't know about Expedia, as I have never used them, but Mapquest places the house that I presently live in about 10 miles from its actual location, and on a completely different road. Kathryn >> ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:44:51 -0500 From: "S. Ferguson" <samf1@ghg.net> To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3F313E93.8AC97DB@ghg.net> Subject: Re: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 #104 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It was a regional distribution facility. A 7 story store (as I recall), with a catalog order counter on each floor. You could place a catalog order at the desk, shop around for a few minutes, and then pick up the order. Sam James Brady wrote: > > Nina, > > Maybe I'm wrong, but I remember those Montgomery Ward's catalogs as showing > the home office in Chicago. Did they have a regional warehouse operation or > something in Menands? I do seem to remember seeing a very large > warehouse-type building near Albnay Rural Cemetery when I visited last year. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: nina brush [mailto:grannycatz@webtv.net] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:27 PM > To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [HudsonRV] Re: NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 #104 > > Does anyone remember that Menands was the home and main offices of > Montgomery Ward, the big mail-order company, back in the 30s and 40s? > Just beyond the northern border of Albany. Nina > > ==== NY-HUDSONRV Mailing List ==== > The NY-HudsonRV Mailing List Website > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/HudsonRV/ > Site good for unsubbing, changing subscription, archives, links, etc. > > ==== NY-HUDSONRV Mailing List ==== > The NY-HudsonRV Mailing List Website > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/HudsonRV/ > Site good for unsubbing, changing subscription, archives, links, etc. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:42:06 -0400 From: "Chris Andrle" <chris@andrle.com> To: NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <012a01c35c85$1c89bb20$2b2bfea9@chrissq7uvv1g7> Subject: Re: [HudsonRV] Re: Mapquest, etc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Both Expedia and MapQuest use the US Census Bureau's TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) map files to produce their maps. The TIGER files contain errors because the Census Bureau did not have funding to correct them beyond their immediate need which was to facilitate census taking. Some companies make their own corrections to the census data, others use them as is. Chris Andrle ----- Original Message ----- From: <SwimBails@aol.com> To: <NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [HudsonRV] Re: Mapquest, etc. > I don't know where Expedia and Mapquest get their maps from but i have heard > that the major map makers make small errors each year as a way to copyright > their products. If the errors show up in something that is sold, they sue. > Usually they take some very small street (like North St.in North Albany) and > either move it or wipe it out completely. > > One year, our little one block dead-end street was wiped out by Rand McNalley > and we had an awful time with deliveries of UPS, pizza and other things for > one year. > Then they picked on someone else. :-( > > Perhaps this is what happened to you, Katherine. > > Jean > > In a message dated 8/5/03 11:08:52 AM, kgb2@centurytel.net writes: > > << I don't know about Expedia, as I have never used them, but Mapquest places > the house that I presently live > in about 10 miles from its actual location, and on a completely different > road. > Kathryn >> > > > ==== NY-HUDSONRV Mailing List ==== > The NY-HudsonRV Mailing List Website > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/HudsonRV/ > Site good for unsubbing, changing subscription, archives, links, etc. > > -------------------------------- End of NY-HUDSONRV-D Digest V03 Issue #105 ****************************************** --WebTV-Mail-16194-1032--