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Lesson Title About Pep Boys Screen —F-4. <br />Learning Unit A Brief History of Pep Boys <br />Title <br />Imacie Audio <br />MMJ Logo <br />Content Block. Sidebar <br />Yes, there really were three people named Manny, Moe and Jack. <br />In 1921, Maurice L. (Moe) Strauss, Emanuel (Manny) Rosenfeld and N. <br />Graham (Jack) Jackson opened the first Pep Auto Supplies store in <br />Philadelphia, PA. <br />They took the original name from a product carried in the store, called Pep <br />Valve Grinding Compound. <br />A neighborhood cop may have led to the name change to Pep Boys. As the <br />story goes, every time he stopped a car that didn't have an oil wick burning, <br />he would tell the driver to go see "the boys down at Pep." <br />The "Manny, Moe and Jack" portion of the name was added after Moe visited <br />California in 1923 and saw a dress shop called Minnie, Maude and Mabel's! <br />Act= <br />Flash #1 Zoom (No Header) <br />Q: So what's an oil wick, anyway? A: Back in 1921 many -vehicles didn't have electric headlights. They carried oil <br />lamps, which had a wick that was burned. These were the early car lights. <br />5 <br />