Posted: 7/30/2014 6:42:47 PM EDT
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I remember Western Auto well. They are now Advanced Auto Parts kind of From wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Auto |
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Damn it. Your avatar and the mention of Pepperidge farm, now I am hungry for Dutch butter cookies.. 
ETA: oops, Danish butter cookies. You people all look alike to me.. 
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Pepperidge Farm remembers Damn it. Your avatar and the mention of Pepperidge farm, now I am hungry for Dutch butter cookies..
ETA: oops, Danish butter cookies. You people all look alike to me..
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Quoted: I remember flying, the original, Ozark Airlines. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Airline/Ozark%20Air%20Lines%20MCD%20DC-9-40.jpg  Quoted: Quoted: No, but I remember flying Western Airlines. I remember flying, the original, Ozark Airlines. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Airline/Ozark%20Air%20Lines%20MCD%20DC-9-40.jpg UPS purchased most of their jets in 1986 |
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I bought my Mossberg 500 at Zearl Young's Western Auto in Hobbs, NM in 1991.
That place had been around as long as I could remember. They would give credit to anybody. Of course they would come get your shit if you missed a payment too. They had everything from appliances, auto parts, carpet, guns, ammo etc. |
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I remember flying, the original, Ozark Airlines. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Airline/Ozark%20Air%20Lines%20MCD%20DC-9-40.jpg
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No, but I remember flying Western Airlines. I remember flying, the original, Ozark Airlines. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Airline/Ozark%20Air%20Lines%20MCD%20DC-9-40.jpg
It used to scare the shit out of me to have to fly them. They didn't seem to hire the best and brightest and I got to overhear WAY too many airport conversations while enduring long airport waits flying standby as a broke college kid. |
| Yes I worked at the largest (Well we sold more merchandise than any other store) Western auto west of the Mississippi while in high school. some of the best times I ever had at work. Great Boss hard and fair, He was a WW2 veteran that I respected very much. He was the commander, and friend of Silvestre Santana Herrera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvestre_S._Herrera they both gave the Germans hell. |
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"Wizard" appliances, FTW!
Here in San Antonio, they actually had one in a major mall. You could get sloshed at the Chelsea Street Pub, crawl down to the Western Auto to buy one of those spiffy new 8 track portable tape players, and then hit the Woolworth's next door for some iron-on patches to mend the holes in your trouser knees...
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We had both. OTASCO had a pretty good gun counter. FWIW, every hardware store in town sold guns. Quoted:
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We didn't have Western Auot we had OTASCO (Oklahoma Tire ??????) We had both. OTASCO had a pretty good gun counter. FWIW, every hardware store in town sold guns. We also had both. Otasco indeed had an excellent gun counter for a fairly small store. |
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Quoted: "Wizard" appliances, FTW! Here in San Antonio, they actually had one in a major mall. You could get sloshed at the Chelsea Street Pub, crawl down to the Western Auto to buy one of those spiffy new 8 track portable tape players, and then hit the Woolworth's next door for some iron-on patches to mend the holes in your trouser knees... Ah, the memories of the lunch counter. BLTs/ Clubs, fries and a shake. |
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Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia:
The building that once housed its corporate headquarters, located at 2107 Grand Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, was transformed into loft condominiums; the Western Auto sign remains atop the building and is illuminated nightly.[14] 
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