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 ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

MCCANDLESS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head-over-heels. Statewide, about 1,900 Sears catalog homes have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything ...

In the early 1900s, Sears sold thousands of homes around the U.S. through its mail-order catalogs. Many of those houses are still around, and... Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything ...

We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

In our “Information Age” it might be difficult to comprehend the significance of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the lives of several generations of mountain people. Comparable to the World Wide Web, the ...