I was replacing the tip on my dads old glass fly rod and I noticed that it said,
Revelation
Western Auto Stores
V-1103
I believe this was a bit before my time, was western auto store a type of general store, hardware type store?
How can I figure out the weight of the rod?
Any info would be great.
I found one artical when I googled by Castwell that mentioned the stores.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/cst/cst011303.html
Thanks
Western Auto’s headquarters was in Kansas City.
It was a chain of stores and franchices that carried auto parts such as tires, sporting good like fishing equiptment, outboard motors (Wizard was the brand of OB motors, guns and ammo.
Sear bought them out some years ago and kept the name for a bit…I’m pretty sure Sears sold Western auto or just desolved it…Western Auto stores around here are now “Auto Zone”
The old Western Auto headquaters building in KC has been turned in to loft apartments.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the hardware store was where you went to get fishing stuff, especially in smaller towns that couldn’t support a store dedicated solely to such foolishness as fishing :lol:
I have a Revelation automatic reel also from Western Auto. I got it on a rod that belonged to my grandfather. I don’t remember who it was that made the revelation line (I’m thinking South Bend, but I could be wrong).
Hehe thats kinda funny since the Western Auto in our town was turned into apartments too.
I still have my Revelation BB gun in the cabinet with the rest of my guns. I take it out once in awhile when my son wants to shoot his Red Ryder.
Western Auto stores are gone???
How come nobody told me… 
Western Auto Stores now that brings back memories. We used to have one in Nampa. Bought my first rotertiller there. I finally bit the dust last year. It was at least 23 years old replaced the moter one time. Got a remington model 788 in a 308 caliber there also paid I think $100.00 lot of money back then. Sears bought them out and look at sears now they ain’t worth their weight in salt Oh well that is progress right 
The old Western Auto Stores must have been an inspiration to old Sam Walton when he was thinking about his Wal-Mart store creations. Our little town Western Auto Store use to be the big place that sold everything automotive, from tires to getting your brake shoes re-lined, to buying a refrigerator or a washing machine. Plus there were aisle after aisle of hardware and sporting items (especially bicyles), and all kinds of indiscribeable bric-a-brac. The only thing I think Western Auto left out of their stores were groceries! It was not uncommon for many items to have a Western Auto label … which would be the same stuff under a different label somewhere else. Sears ruled the larger cities, but in suburbia and little town America, Western Auto was the big chain store.
Dale
Actually, Sam Walton’s claim to fame came from selling large volumes of ladies unmentionables at the lowest price in town. He was inspired by a five and dime retailer other than Western Auto. Just a little trivia.
Joe
Unless I miss my mark (which is common), I think Pat Summerall was Western Auto’s announcer for TV commercials.
Blessings,
A long time ago? We still have a local hardware store here that does that :D.
I use to duck hunt down at the Oregon coast back in the 60’s and 70’s. I knew if I needed anything to do with hunting while down at Tillamook, I could find it in the Western Auto store. They had an asile of pots and pans, toasters and mixers, the next asile would be automotive parts and then tools, around the next corner would be greeting cards and then on down to womens make up then the asile of candy. I use to by Western shot shells, they were made by Winchester and Western is also no more. Well, the ice cream parlor across the street is no more either. Is anything anymore? Probably have to by salt water taffe in a bag made in China? Thanks for the memories.
I am old enough to have been around when stores like Western Auto were big business.
We have lost something of Americana with the demise of stores like Western Auto, Higbee’s, G.C.Murphy, Montgomery Wards and the local hardware and barber shops. I miss them all. Most were mom and pop owned or franchised. Just like the real filling stations we are worse off for their lose.
Hawk’s hardware and general store in Grove City, Pa. used to gift wrap your purchases for you free of charge.
I think this fellow could help you:
http://members.aol.com/canerodz/homepage.html
Send him an email.
Thanks,
I sent him an email. I am more curious for sentimental reasons than anything else.
Anyone else ride a Western Flyer…my “big” bike. I rode it all over Carthage, MO
You mentioned Western Flier!!!
Something when kachang :!: :!: :!: in my memory.
I don’t know if I inherited the thing or if my parents bought it for me, but I believe my wagon, Sled and my first bicycle where Western Flier!!! I am pretty sure the tricycles were Western Flier.
Red with white letters?
I was just a young young pup, like over 5 years old or so and used to ride the Western fliers down the potato celler in the back of our house. Sled in the winter, wagon in the summer.
Now, that was a fun time. :lol: :D.
I guess I knew more about Western Auto than I thought I did.
I believe the bicycle had a big bannana seat, streamers in the handlebars and flags. I rode that bike from the middle of the fields up to the house and back more times than I can possibly count.
I even got in trouble for riding it on the highway that ran in front of the house.
The wagon finally had the black wheels wore to nothing by the weather. I remember one winter pulling the thing out of the ice and the bottom of the wheel stayed in the ice. We still used the wagon, but not for riding unless someone was pulling.
We also hooked that wagon up to the old honda motorcycle and dragged it with a rope for rides.
I sincerely hope you used clothes pins to put old baseball cards into the spokes so you made a cool noise riding down the street.
I didn’t have a street, just the highway. My mother went into coniptions if she caught me on the highway, almost as bad as when I shot my sister with the bb gun. Most of my riding was on the pump road to the field, in the dirt around the cellar or on the grass.
I wish I knew about the baseball card thing, because I never did it. Our closest neighbor growing up was about a mile away. I was only able to have friends over once in a while, so nobody trained me on the card trick.
BB gun + angry mother + concrete steps = pile of rubble.
The last time I was in Salida, Colorado, there was still a Western Auto there - all sorts of good stuff.
I had a western flyer bike and a flexible flyer sled.
I think their wagons were called Radio flyers.
I often wonder how many dollars went up in smoke when we ruined all those baseball cards in the 1950’s and 1960’s . Some of them are worth a lot of money now. Along with the cards you had to have streamers flying from the colored handlegrips.