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There are plenty of decades-old Sears catalogs, employee pins and vintage items for sale on eBay. In the wake of the company's bankruptcy filing earlier this week, plenty of people are selling ...
A 1921 catalog of Sears kit homes offers the Magnolia for $6,488. Only seven Magnolias are known to exist, including one at 1500 James St., Syracuse.
Leafing through a Sears catalog, circling what you want, may be the brand's biggest gift to our cultural zeitgeist. The telephone-book sized anthology of anything you'd ever need or want stands ...
As recently as 1953, new-car shoppers could avoid dealerships by ordering directly from their Sears catalog or nearest retail outlet. Named after the insurance company that owned the department-store ...
Fall/Winter Sears catalog from 1957 Annie Wells/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer ...
Opinion; In the Sears catalog, a kid could find just about every toy imaginable. Published: ; Nov. 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Beginning in1908, catalog customers could browse among styles and models of homes, then they could order all the materials to ...
Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Rating: ...
In one video, Forbes opens a sealed 1996 Sears Wish Book, which happens to be his favorite catalog he owns. Since posting, the video has garnered more than 600,000 views and 1,800 comments.
When a $1.1 million Craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado, was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797, or the equivalent of around $32,000 today. Even ...
Between 1908 and 1942, Sears sold an estimated 75,000 houses through its mail-order catalog. “The company’s simplistic home designs changed life forever,” according to a history of the program.
In 1908, Sears published “Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans,” the first catalog devoted to mail-order homes. The high-quality Honor Bilt Modern Homes ranged in price from $650 to $2,500 ...