In one TikTok video, Ryan Forbes opened a 1996 Sears Wish Book, which has since garnered more than 600,000 views Candace Forbes; Ryan Forbes A couple of years ago, Ryan Forbes was cleaning out his ...
Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...
Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...
It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...
I’m happy to tell you because I just found out myself! It is a kit home purchased out of a Sears mail order catalog. Sounds unbelievable, right? But in those ...
This week's announcement that Sears is closing its Mankato store no doubt brought a flood of memories for anyone over the age of 35. I pick that age because most anyone younger than that remembers ...
Ruth Parrington, librarian in the art department of the Chicago Public Library, studies early Sears Roebuck catalogs in the library's collection, in Chicago. The catalog Parrington is holding features ...