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 ...
Sears sold mail-order kit homes from 1908 to 1942, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Few Sears kit homes were sold in Florida, likely due to shipping logistics and the homes' ...
Sears and Roebuck knew how to reach customers in the far corners of the country -- decades before the Internet. By the turn of the 20 th century, Sears had taken advantage of the nationwide rail ...
What: This is no ordinary century-old colonial home: It was built in 1923 from a kit ordered through a Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Where: The two-story is at 424 19th St. NW in Canton's historic ...
Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular TikTok ...
Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. Minnie Kendall’s Roseville house was said to ...
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 ...
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 ...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (CBS) --An era has come to an end in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates, as crews on Thursday were working to tear down the old Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporate headquarters. CBS ...
Many people are familiar with the homes that were shown in old Sears/Roebuck catalogs and shipped in pieces, but as far as I know, none of these homes exist in Santa Barbara. We do, however, have more ...
BURBANK, Calif. -- To the casual shopper, Sears, one of America's oldest retailers, may appear to be on life support. The department store chain that once reinvented how Americans shopped now barely ...
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 ...
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