Dan Barber remembers when he was a child growing up in his father's Western Auto store on Main Street, a landmark in downtown since it opened in 1948. "My family grew up in that store," Barber said.

A chain of stores where those items could be found in metallic form no longer exists – the Western Auto Supply Stores. The company was founded in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri by George Pepperdine, ...

Dan Barber remembers when he was a child growing up in his father’s Western Auto store on Main Street, a landmark in downtown since it opened in 1948. “My family grew up in that store,” Barber said.

Editor's Note: This is the 263rd in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. HUNTINGTON — For years, youngsters would dream that Santa would bring them a fancy new bicycle for ...

When was the last time you went shopping for a bicycle? Not recently? Me neither. I was 9, I think, when Dad took me to the Western Auto in Shreveport, La., to pick out a bike for my 8th birthday. I ...

STEVENSVILLE — Forty years have passed since the Western Auto Store on Kent Island opened for business, and store officials are planning to mark that anniversary this week.

Some residents of the Western Auto building in downtown Kansas City are hoping to relight its iconic roof-top sign. Long a landmark in Kansas City, the building has gone through many changes, and the ...

Georgia Drumwright figured if you are going to remain in business, you have to change with times, and in her 42 years at Western Auto, at 1475 S. Highland Ave., in South Jackson, she has seen plenty ...