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Western Auto Supply Co... (3)
Automobile Industry (1)
Automobiles -- Early (1)
Pepperdine, George (1)
Western Auto Building (1)

Creator
Joel Laner (1)
Dorothy Lamoree (1)

Date
April 71959 (1)
June//1981 (1)
May/12/1971 (1)

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1. Major Tune-Up at Western Auto Major Tune-Up at Western Auto June//1981 Photos and article about the Western Auto Supply Company's "conversion of company stores into automotive supermarkets" under chief executive officer John Lundegard, with photos of "[t]he first Western...
2. Western Auto Supply Co. Opens 500th Retail Store Western Auto Supply Co. Opens 500th Retail Store May/12/1971 Photos and article about the history of the Western Auto Supply Company, established in "1909 as a mail-order business" for Model T Ford parts by "George Pepperdine, a Kansas City bookkeeper." Photos of...
3. Western Auto's First Fifty Years in Kansas City: The Story Began with a Young Man's Idea to Supplement Western Auto's First Fifty Years in Kansas City: The Story Began with a Young Man's Idea to Supplement His Meager Wage April 7, 1959 History of the Western Auto automobile parts company in from its beginnings in Kansas City in about 1910, established by George Pepperdine for parts for Ford automobiles. Description of its growth and...