Sears's cheap line of Silvertone guitars—and its catalog's immense reach—introduced both Delta bluesmen and suburban garage teens to the instrument, shaping the course of American music.

There were four things Francis “Rocco” Prestia and I had in common. We both started out playing guitar. Like me, Rocco’s first electric guitar was a Sears Silvertone guitar where ...

Richard Sears was a young man working as a railroad station agent in Minnesota in the late 1800's. When a local jeweler forfeited a crate of watches because he didn't want to pay shipping charges ...

HIBBING (AP) -- When Larry Fabbro mail ordered a guitar from Sears, Roebuck and Co., the teen-ager never dreamed it would become an artifact of rock 'n' roll history.

The McCurdy-Sears Building, located on the corner of Fourth and Sycamore streets, was built in 1920 by William H. McCurdy, financier and owner of Hercules Gas Engine Company.

Online Archive of Sears Catalogs Gives Glimpse of History. By . Lauren Goode. ... has spent the past year working with retail conglomerate Sears Holdings Corp. to archiveover 250,000 pages of ...

In 1974, completion of Sears Tower in Chicago also made Sears the owner of the world's tallest building. First published March 24, 2017: 3:46 PM ET Source: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...

Sears says its business is struggling to keep its doors open. NBC 5 Responds looks back at the history of the American department store icon.