Home tour:
A Sears catalog home — updated = -.
The Sears catalog homes were made with the finest materials, including cypress for all exterior components like the window trim and clapboard, and first - growth, top - grade southern yellow pine for framing.
Check out this bungalow that was bought from
a Sears catalog in 1933.
Those LR chairs remind me of a set that my Mom wanted from
the Sears catalog back then, but I do think most of the furnishings date way before 1979.
Plans must of come from
the Sears catalog!
Curators Brian Pera and Terri Phillips welcome internationally recognized artists, filmmakers, and critics to Memphis for this exciting new series, which takes its name from the famed
Sears Catalog and is hosted by Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse, itself once a major Sears distribution center.
Fogt's collaged images from a 1960
Sears catalog hover in fields of empty space, the pieces appearing to float on the page, while the swirling cacophony of Yeapanis's colorful ink drawings echo the unpredictably organic forms of her 3 - dimensional installations.
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And
the Sears catalog was recycled (in the country, at least) as toilet paper.
There was a time
the Sears Catalog was THE definitive holiday season buying guide for many kids deciding on what toys they wanted.
I learned that day that a writer can transform something as ordinary as the old
Sears catalog into a thing of wonder and beauty.
Khaled read a poem he had composed about looking through
the Sears catalog when he was a boy.
DADDIESDADDY»S bio simple version... Saw men in wetsuits in
Sears catalog as a child, couldn't figure out why I felt so odd looking at the wetsuits, saw racing leathers in an import auto mag at auto parts store..
It's not your usual headshot or
Sears catalog service and there won't be a glam squad — but you'll walk away with a set of really great pictures you can use to attract the right type of man.
I loved going through
the Sears catalog growing up!
The Sears catalog featured «Autographed Fashion» and accessories worn on screen by stars such as Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers, and Ann Sothern.
For more style inspiration, check out
the Sears Catalog here.
More spring style inspiration in
the Sears catalog here.
Just like I would get into a flurry of excitement when the big
Sears catalog would arrive each Christmas, my girls do the same thing with the holiday American Girl doll catalog.
The day
the Sears catalog arrived was a BIG DAY at my house growing up.
And even then, you had to buy most of the parts for your Model T from
the Sears catalog.
Originally a retail catalog that sold watches from Redwood Falls, Minn.,
the Sears catalog quickly developed a reputation for high - quality products and customer satisfaction.
These are the days when we look back longingly at a simpler time, where our options were something from the 40 pages of
the Sears catalog.
The Sears catalog, coupled with a burgeoning transportation system, was a brilliant mechanism by which to reduce friction and increase market efficiency.
While the similarities between Sears and Amazon are striking — the railroad and the Internet, the elimination of the middle man with
the Sears catalog and Amazon's self - publishing platform and content creation, the creation of an urban distribution network through local railroad agents and the 400 points of distribution that Whole Foods delivers to Amazon — there are also some game changing differences.
BTW, my parents got both the Penney's and
Sears catalogs throughout that glorious decade; who knows what works of art lurk in the backs of their closets.
Not exact matches
For example, the iconic 20th Century brand
Sears was all about having a trusted single place, be it the
catalog or the store, in which to find everything you could possibly need, at a competitive price.
One former employee recalled asking why Toys R Us did not have a
catalog like
Sears.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. may have been able to infer when you bought a gift from their
catalog for a friend who lived in another town, but Amazon has more reason (and more ability) to use that information to build a profile of your friend's interests.
It is hard to believe that they began their life in a
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
catalog over 100 years ago (1897).
As a member of the Baby Boomer generation I ate cookies, played with Slinky, chewed Bazooka, watched Rocky and Bullwinkle, used Prell shampoo, drooled over the Christmas edition of the
Sear's
catalog, sniffed my moms Jean Nate and even got a Toni perm.
After retirement, Mr. Smid was a part - time manager in the
catalog department of
Sears Roebuck and Co., Chicago, for several years.
Through the emergence of the US ready - to - wear market, designers like Chanel with their shift dress or the mail - order
catalogs sent to rural farms by
Sears allowed women to purchase clothing faster and at a cheaper price.
Before I headed out to
Sears, I did a little browsing on ShopYourWay.com and built up a little Art of Fashion
catalog with some of the styles I wanted to try on when I arrived at
Sears.
Like Crews, Nordan's stories and novels introduce us to ragged characters that make their own happiness out of simple events and objects, such as fishing for chickens or making up stories about the men and women in the
Sears Roebuck
catalog.
The Kindles are to Amazon what the printed
catalog was to
Sears a century ago.
There was even a song that made mention of this use: «Where I would set me down to rest, like a snowbird on his nest, And read the
Sears & Roebuck
catalog.»
Amazon.com is doing the same thing as
Sears used to, except the
catalog and ordering are over the internet instead of via paper.
What these morons forget is that this is EXACTLY the formula that made
Sears such a success: telegraph the order from the
catalog and your shipment would be on the train.
Sears ran atop the US Postal Service -
catalogs went out that way, orders came in that way, and orders were delivered that way.
So I'm certain that for rural people, Amazon is as great a resource as the
Sears Roebuck
catalog must have been to our ancestors.
The Discover brand was originally introduced into the marketplace by
Sears, after a recent purchase of both Dean Witter (investment brokerage firm) and Coldwell, Banker & Company (real estate) in an attempt to add a full financial services arm to its already booming retail and mail order
catalog business.
Beginning in the 1950s, ASC partnered with the
Sears Roebuck
catalog, so for the first time, people could order aquatic products, including live fish, all over the United States.
Before there was a New York Aquarium, bus and school tours used to visit ASC to learn about fish, plants and aquatic species; ASC partnered with the
Sears Roebuck
catalog starting in the 1950s, so for the first time, people could order aquatic products including live fish all over the United States; Eric's father, Kenneth Abbey worked for Lou (his father in law), and then launched Petcetera in 1972 and operated that until 2006.
Sears has been around for more than 130 years, getting its start as a mail order
catalog in the late 19th century before opening its first brick - and - mortar locations in 1925.
Cy Twombly was born Edwin Parker Twombly Jr, in Lexington, Virginia, as a young boy, Twombly ordered and worked on art kits he ordered from the
Sears Roebuck
catalog.
Ideal Companies: Home Depot,
Sears, Wal - Mart, Sam's Club, Comcast, Best Buy, Circuit City,, any retail establishment, radio stations, hospitals, manufacturing plants, floral wire services,
catalog companies; any organization whose business depends upon customer purchases.
In the early to mid-1900s,
Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold thousands of popular «kit» houses through its
catalog.
These concrete block homes are easy to sell, especially when they can be identified as a
Sears Roebuck
catalog design, according to Mary Strang, ABR ®, CRS ®, broker - owner of RE / MAX Hill Country Realty in Viroqua, Wis..
Strang can discern concrete block homes by comparing the homes to designs in a reproduction
catalog or examining the rafters for a stamp typical of many
Sears homes.