A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

In our “Information Age” it might be difficult to comprehend the significance of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the lives of several generations of mountain people. Comparable to the World Wide Web, the ...

FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

Sears will live on, at least for now. The company's chairman and largest shareholder and chairman, Eddie Lampert, won a January bankruptcy auction for Sears in New York, averting liquidation of the ...

VICTOR, N.Y. — Sears Roebuck and Co. started selling mail-order houses from its specialty catalog — the Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans — in 1908. It is reported that more than 100,000 houses ...

Long before Amazon and internet shopping, you could buy almost anything from a mail-order catalog. Clothing, furniture, jewelry, toys, plant seeds. Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick ...

According to an article in the May 15, 2006 edition of the Wall Street Journal, about 70,000 to 100,000 homes made by Sears, Roebuck and Co. were sold through Sears catalogs from 1908 to 1940. The ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything ...

For most of the 20th century, Sears was intertwined with Christmas, when rural shoppers could use their catalog to mail order items from their wish lists, from toys to snow tires, drum sets to hunting ...

As a child and into my teenage years, a singular event announced that Christmas was comin’. That was on the day in early November each year when I went to the mailbox and discovered that the Sears ...

TAMAQUA – Jim Hain believes his grandparents, Charles and Catherine Houser, ordered a new house from a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog in the late 1920s or early 1930s. “The house was complete, and they ...