In August 1992, 31 years ago this week, Hurricane Andrew struck, leaving 250,000 homeless across Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas, caused more than $30 billion in damage and took more than 30 lives. At the…
Thirty years ago this, the Exchange opened Firestone Master Care Car Center at Fort Lewis. It was the first such facility on a military installation in CONUS, opening a new era for automotive care at…
The DC, about 100 miles south of Dallas, had already been receiving merchandise for processing for months before the grand opening.
The movie “Oppenheimer,” and the approaching anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb explosions, inspired this look back at the White Sands Missile Range Exchange. Although it opened after World War II, the Exchange’s…
You may have heard this week about a certain social media site’s rebranding, which inspires this look back at the Exchange’s own brand, which debuted nearly 13 years ago. On Sept. 17, 2010, a 77,000-square-foot…
In July 1940, the first World War II PX in Alaska opened in three storage tents, a small beginning of what would soon become an exchange system spread across the vast state. Here are some…
The registered nurse, who was based at Exchange headquarters, was among the Red Cross volunteers who helped survivors of the Andrea Doria shipwreck in 1956.
National Fried Chicken Day was Thursday, but nobody said you can’t celebrate it (or keep celebrating it) today, or throughout the weekend. So Flashback Friday has prepared a bucketful of items about fried chicken in…
During the Revolutionary War—the American Articles of War enacted rules and regulations for “civilian traders [who] were given sales commissions to supply General Washington’s army with chewing tobacco, snuff, blankets, knives and other items of…
The Dan Daniel Distribution Center held its grand opening on June 24, 1988. Here’s some info about the DC and the person it was named for.
