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Pep Boys () is a U.S. Retail chain. In 1921 , Maurice L. (Moe) Strauss, Emanuel (Manny) Rosenfield and W. Graham (Jack) Jackson opened the first "Pep Auto Supplies" store in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . They took the original name from a product carried in the store, called "Pep Valve Grinding Compound." A neighborhood cop may have led to the name change "Pep Boys." As the story goes, every time he stopped a car that didn't have an Oil Wick Burning , he would tell the driver to go see "''the boys down at Pep.''" The "Manny, Moe and Jack" portion of the name was added after Moe visited California in 1923 and saw a dress shop called "Minnie, Maude and Mabel's". Moe's visit to California also started a new market for the company. He opened the West Coast operation in 1933 and Pep Boys began to grow on both sides of the country. The company leveled off at about 159 stores around 1986 . PEP BOYS TODAY Then an expansion program nearly doubled the size of the chain in a short time. By ; Atlanta, Georgia ; Dallas, Texas ; Indianapolis, Indiana ; and Los Angeles, California . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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