Southern California was just beginning to develop a taste for suburban sprawl in 1923 when an enterprising Venice property owner built a charming Craftsman home using plans and materials purchased ...

It would be hard to imagine a company as much a part of the American scene as Sears Roebuck & Company. At age 100 it truly has been a part of the cultural history of the nation. To once isolated ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

CHICAGO — The remaining remnant of the “Big Book” catalog of Sears, Roebuck and Co., the company’s catalog outlet stores, will be shuttered at the end of September, the company announced yesterday.

The early 1980s were a watershed moment for digital technology. Aside from the imminent personal computing revolution, it was clear that video recording could change the way we did everything from ...

Before there was Amazon — or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart — there was Sears. From its beginnings as a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis 132 years ago, the company grew to ...

From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer—and affixed its name to the world’s tallest building—Sears started by selling time. In 1886, ...