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 ...

The department store was formerly famous for its catalog and high-end offerings. — -- Sears was once a sparkling star of the retail world going back to the days before there was such a thing as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

My mother gave me the coolest thing ever — the 1964 Spring and Summer edition of the Sears Catalog. No one comes to my house and sees it without gasping and wanting to flip through the pages to see ...

For so many people who grew up before the internet, the Sears catalog WAS the internet. The thick, heavy books had tools, dishes, TVs, clothes, appliances and just about anything else you'd need ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However ...

To visit Hopewell is to take a step backward in time. A half-hour’s drive southeast of Richmond reveals a downtown of low-slung brick buildings studded with art deco flourishes. Standing guard over ...

One of the best Christmas or Hanukkah presents that young baby boomers like me got even before the holidays did not cost our parents anything. This gift was as magical as many of the costly gifts that ...