Date:  Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:18:27 -0800

From:  William Seaburg <seaburg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Subject: Re: Monkey Wards and Kame-apart



My 87 year old father (born and raised in Washington State) always used

to tease us kids as we were growing up about shopping at the Monkey Wards

catalogue store.



Bill Seaburg





On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Dan Moonhawk Alford wrote:



> My two older girls growing up in Placerville (shopping in Sacramento)

> with a mom whose folks were from Iowa said "Monkey Wards" as well as

> 'Kame-apart' for K-Mart.

>

> On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Tom Uharriet wrote:

>

> >   How wide-spread is the name, "Monkey Wards"?

> >   Have any of you heard of it?

>