Feeling nostalgic, we went to eBay in search of old Sears Christmas catalogs to buy. Quickly, we discovered many of them are out of our price range — selling for up to almost $200. Luckily ...

The first Sears Christmas Book, in 1933, was a modest 87 pages. It offered fruitcakes and Mickey Mouse watches and live canaries. By 1968, the catalog had ballooned to 608 pages, and sold quilted ...

In 1968, the name of the catalog officially changed to ... Original article source: Sears sold the first artificial Christmas trees for $0.50 and $1.00 in the late 1800s ...

1953: The Sears credit card is introduced. 1967: Sears creates DieHard batteries. 1968: The Christmas catalog is re-christened the Wish Book. 1973: The Sears Tower, then the tallest building in ...

Sears, Roebuck & Company is credited by the National Christmas Tree Association ... artificial Christmas trees in 1910." In 1968, the name of the catalog officially changed to the "Wish Book ...

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 ...

For so many people who grew up before the internet, the Sears catalog WAS the internet ... They even sold houses for a while. The Sears Christmas catalogs provided hours and hours of entertainment ...

It has been a slow, quiet death for an iconic chain, whose groundbreaking catalog and anchor position at many malls nationwide once made Sears both the Amazon (AMZN) and the Walmart of its day.

The first Sears Christmas Book, in 1933, was a modest 87 pages. It offered fruitcakes and Mickey Mouse watches and live canaries. By 1968, the catalog had ballooned to 608 pages, and sold quilted ...