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Forgotten America: The Rise and Sad Fall of Montgomery Ward — The Store That Invented Santa Claus

Forgotten America: The Rise and Sad Fall of Montgomery Ward — The Store That Invented Santa Claus Once the beating heart of American retail, Montgomery Ward was more than just a store — it was the company that invented how ordinary people shop, built on a single radical promise: that farmers in Nebraska and miners in West Virginia deserved the same prices as anyone in Chicago. For 129 years, it delivered on that promise, growing from one sheet of paper into a 100,000-person empire that mailed its famous Wish Book to 7 million households every single year. From the first mail-order catalog in American history to the creation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Ward shaped not just retail but the cultural fabric of the country. But behind the success was a decade of frozen ambition, a leader who hoarded hundreds of millions while competitors rewrote the map, and a company so attached to its own mythology that it couldn't see the ground shifting beneath it. This video tells the full story of how America's original retail giant rose, stalled, and disappeared in six months — and what 129 years of history still have to teach. #MontgomeryWard #AmericanRetailHistory