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Sears Catalogs Once Sold Monkeys, Donkeys and Other Animals?
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 ...
USA Today7mon
Sears used to sell homes by mail. Cincinnati has the most still standing.
Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.
The Cincinnati Enquirer8mon
Sears used to sell homes by mail. Cincinnati may have more than any other city
Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.
CBS News2mon
One of the last 8 Sears stores in America is in Massachusetts. Here's what it's like inside.
Shoppers like Jessica and Bryan, a couple who visited the store, recall fond memories of the Sears catalog they would eagerly await each year. "Do you remember that? Circling all the stuff you ...
Sacramento Bee7mon
Some Sacramento homes might be built from kits. But did they come from the Sears catalog?
A family stands on the front porch of their Sears home – a model dubbed “The Westly” in the 1920s catalog – in Raleigh, N.C., in 2011. CHELSEA KELLNER Raleigh News & Observer file “The ...
The Repository1mon
Stark, actually: This picture-perfect Sears Magnolia catalog house still stands in Canton
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 ...