Ferndale's downtown shopping area, 9 Mile Road, featured many busy, popular stores in the 1940s to 1960s, including A & P Supermarket, State Supermarket ( which later became Food Fair, and eventually Farmer Jack ), Federal Department Store, Cunningham's Drugs, Hagelstein's Bakery, F & M Drugs ( the first store in the chain ), Sanders Bakery, Western Auto, several clothing and shoe stores, Ferndale Lanes ( a 20-lane second-story bowling alley over a group of stores on 9 Mile west of Woodward ), Kresge's, Woolworth's and Neisner " dime stores.

Charles Cone ran the Western Auto Store.

* Dollar General, located on Main street in the original Western Auto building.

* The Western Auto Store, located on main street directly across from the original U. S. Post Office, now occupied by Dollar General.

This building operated as a Western Auto Parts affiliate from the late 1960s until the early 1980s.

Paul Hunter ran the Western Auto Store.

Pepperdine had built a fortune founding and developing the Western Auto Supply Company, which he started with a $ 5 investment, but his prosperity led to his greater ambition to discover " how humanity can be helped most with the means entrusted to care.

A sign for a Western Auto Associate Store in Minden, Louisiana.

Remaining Western Auto store, Newport, Tennessee.

Western Auto Supply Company — known more widely as Western Auto — was a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories.

Sears sold most of the company to Advance Auto Parts in 1998, and by 2003, the resulting merger had led to the end of the Western Auto brand and its product distribution network.

Western Auto originally started as a mail order business for replacement auto parts.

Western Auto was known for its " Western Flyer " bicycle and " Performance Radial GT " tire brands.

Other Western Auto private labeled brands popular with consumers included " Davis Tires " ( likely named for Don A. Davis, a Western Auto president ), " Tough One " Batteries, " Wizard " Tools, " TrueTone " electronics and " Citation " appliances.

Western Auto was also the parent company of Auto America and Parts America stores, as well as acquiring National Tire and Battery ( NTB ).

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

Particularly was this true as laissez-faire capitalism became the dominant credo of Western society.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.

Six years ago French Indochina, though in troubie, was in the Western camp.

A short time ago all Africa was a Western preserve.

Their joint statement was welcomed by the Western delegations who will attend tomorrow the nineteenth plenary session of the fourteen-nation conference on the future of Laos.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

Note that by Western standards this plan was `` upside down '', as it put North at the bottom and South at the top, with the other directions correspondingly altered ; ;

it had a look of grim stark realism, resembling other cities whose habitual climate was cold, instead of the sprawling bumptious open-handed greedy Western city basking in eternal sunshine at the foot of mountains stored with endless riches and resources.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

Aristotle was one of the most revered Western thinkers in early Islamic theology.

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

Gulf + Western Industries also bought the neighboring Desilu television studio ( once the lot of RKO Pictures ) from Lucille Ball in 1967.

AT & T had also acquired many of the independents, and bought control of Western Union, giving it a monopolistic position in both telephone and telegraph communication.

In 1926, Glasgow Corporation bought the Cardonald estates, They gave opportunity to private development replicating Kelvindale cottage flats By Western Heritable and Council housing in the area.

It existed because at the time the złoty was not convertible and its official rate of exchange was set by the Government, and there existed several exchange rates depending on the purpose of the transaction and who was exchanging, i. e. given amount in złoty could be exchanged for say US dollars at one of several official exchange rates depending on what was to be bought for the hard currency and the company that was buying foreign exchange ; it worked similarly when a company had some earnings in Western currency and wanted ( or had ) to convert them into złotych.

Western produced games such as Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary until Hasbro bought that division in 1994.

Mattel bought Western in June 1979, and sold it in 1984 to private investors.

In 1921 they bought the first piece of an eventual site, due to its location close to good transport links from both the Grand Union Canal and the Great Western Railway's Great Western Main Line, and the West Coast Main Line and onwards to the Midlands at Willesden Junction.

The Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company subsequently bought all of the remaining land on January 7, 1886.

The Fort Smith and Western Railroad and the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railway ( bought by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1900 ) transported the products to outside markets.

Mulla Sadra bought " a new philosophical insight in dealing with the nature of reality " and created " a major transition from essentialism to existentialism " in Islamic philosophy, several centuries before this occurred in Western philosophy.

The practice of smoking marijuana was bought to Brazil from its African slaves, and with the eugenic positivist intellectual and political status quo of the Western civilization in the early 20th century, its use was deemed as a signal of decadence by its stigmatized use as a recreational drug of the poor, the rural people and the Afro-Brazilian.

Meanwhile, Ezra Cornell had bought back one of his bankrupt companies and renamed it the New York & Western Union Telegraph Company.

Western Union bought out smaller companies rapidly, and by 1860 its lines reached from the East Coast to the Mississippi River, and from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River.

In 1999 the company was bought by the American-owned distribution company Western Power Distribution and was split into two.

The Exeter and Crediton Railway ( opened on 12 May 1851 ), and the North Devon Railway ( opened on 1 August 1854 ) were leased to the London and South Western Railway from 1862 / 1863 and then bought out in 1865.

After Darlington bought the railroad bridge from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, he made his intentions with the five decade-old bridge clear.

Portugal owned several commercial facilities in Western Africa, where slaves were bought from African merchants.

In 1992, the company bought up the Western Canadian chain Pinder's Drugs, and followed this in 1995 with a chain of 24 Bi-Rite Drug Stores based in western Canada.

In 1930, the BCCSS bought Newcastle Island from the Western Fuel Corporation of Canada for $ 30, 000.

It got its name from the sailing ship Rockingham one of the three vessels bought by Thomas Peel to carry settlers to Western Australia ( the others being the Gilmore and the Hooghly ), arriving in May 1830.

In 1966 KVP was bought by Brown Forest Industries, a division of Charles Bluhdorn's industrial conglomerate Gulf and Western Industries.

* Chehalis Western Railroad bought a single high cab unit with Hi-Ad trucks.

Lionel changed hands again in 1995, when Kughn sold controlling interest in the company to an investment group that included Neil Young ( a longtime fan of model trains and of this brand ) and the holding company Wellspring Capital Management, which was headed by former Paramount Communications ( formerly Gulf + Western ) chairman Martin Davis ( he had left the board of Viacom, which bought Paramount the previous year ).

In 1872 Western Union, then financed by the Vanderbilts and J. P. Morgan, bought one-third of Gray and Barton Co. and changed the name to Western Electric Manufacturing Company of Chicago.