... Here in Georgia, we had a major department store known as Rich's.Rich's. My grandmother worked there in the 1950's. They were a main fixture in Atlanta since the 1920's or earlier. They branched out and had Walmart/Target style stores called Richway. I remember shopping there as a kid with my folks all the time. But alas, Rich's was swallowed up by Macy's, and Richway was eviscerated by Target. But Macy's was nice enough to hijack all of Rich's christmas tradition that Atlantans have enjoyed for years, like the Pink Pig ride that I remember riding on with my dad every year as kid at the old Rich's downtown location. Actually... that ride used to scare the living shit out of me, lol. It was a rusty old suspended chain driven ride that was mounted on the edge of the roof of the old Rich's building. The cars would sway and creak and had rust all over them. Being on the rooftop, it was exposed to the December air, and the cars had no windows or heat in them, so you'd freeze your balls off riding in this thing, looking about 6 stories down off the side of the building, thinking that any moment the thing was gonna break and send you hurtling to the street below where you'd surely die in a heap of twisted pink rusted metal and bodies of other passengers. Good times. As far as I know, Macy's redid the ride at their Lennox Mall location and it's now an indoor MUCH LESS DANGEROUS choo-choo train kinda thing rather than a suspended rusty coaster thingy. I think they still have the old Rich's pink pig cars on display there though. I feel sorry that my nephews will never get to know that special Holiday terror like I did.
No video, just an interesting pic I found.Left to right: Leon Wilkeson (bass - Lynyrd Skynyrd), Lou Reed, Ronnie Van Zant (vocals - Lynyrd Skynyrd), Leslie West (guitar/voc - Mountain)
Another interesting pic...Ozzy Osbourne and Sam Kinison. ......
Just got off the phone with my ma. Mentioned it to her, and she said she remembers the Montgomery Ward catalog (says they used to call it the "Monkey Ward catalog") (... I dunno was that a thing, or just my nutty folks being nutty?), but doesn't really remember any of the stores. She grew up in the Avondale Estates and Stone Mountain area and doesn't remember ever seeing one, but said that there might've been one somewhere in downtown Atlanta.
...it was indeed referred to as the "Monkey Ward catalog"...