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They were a huge company starting in the 19th century. They specialized in mail order service. They issued catalogs with a huge assortment of items to buy. When I lived overseas in the Canal Zone our family used them pretty regularly. They also had stores and service centers across the USA.
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When i was a kid with a rural free delivery address the Sears catalog was a staple. Even if someone did not order they could leaf through the hundreds of pages and make a wish list. A kid could order a .22 rifle or a beginner shotgun or whatever.
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Oh i almost forgot...it could also be found in the "outhouse." Probably most of you never had the luxury of a "two holer" on your property.
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Two holer!!! You must have been living in the rich part of town. Our one holer had to work or it was the woods behind the house.
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i would have loved to keep our 12 room farmhouse ...but my wife was a village girl and wanted no part of the country living and my parents got $60,000 for it in 1967..my wife and i were lucky we could scrape up $1,000 for a down payment on a Cape Cod in Red Hook.
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The Sears Company put out a Christmas Wishbook Catalogue that my sisters and I would pour over, page by page and dream !
It was one of our fond memories of our childhood.
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The original amazon.com.
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The tallest building in Chicago was called the "Sears Tower". That's how big they were.
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You used to be able to order an entire house from them. They'd mail it to you brick by brick.
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My father was a US Army officer and when I was young we lived in Izmir, Turkey. At that time in the mid1960s there was nothing to buy locally and the military PX only had toys sporadically so we lived the Sears catalog.
We could place our order and receive the goods through the PX.
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i just came across this item in my railway box ,It appears they went into liquidation some time ago .It's a card for some catalogues ,were they a big company ? there doesn't appear to be a date in the cancel but it's a very apt slogan cancel philately the family hobby
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They were a huge company starting in the 19th century. They specialized in mail order service. They issued catalogs with a huge assortment of items to buy. When I lived overseas in the Canal Zone our family used them pretty regularly. They also had stores and service centers across the USA.
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When i was a kid with a rural free delivery address the Sears catalog was a staple. Even if someone did not order they could leaf through the hundreds of pages and make a wish list. A kid could order a .22 rifle or a beginner shotgun or whatever.
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Oh i almost forgot...it could also be found in the "outhouse." Probably most of you never had the luxury of a "two holer" on your property.
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Two holer!!! You must have been living in the rich part of town. Our one holer had to work or it was the woods behind the house.
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i would have loved to keep our 12 room farmhouse ...but my wife was a village girl and wanted no part of the country living and my parents got $60,000 for it in 1967..my wife and i were lucky we could scrape up $1,000 for a down payment on a Cape Cod in Red Hook.
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The Sears Company put out a Christmas Wishbook Catalogue that my sisters and I would pour over, page by page and dream !
It was one of our fond memories of our childhood.
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The original amazon.com.
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re: Sears,Roebuck &Co
The tallest building in Chicago was called the "Sears Tower". That's how big they were.
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You used to be able to order an entire house from them. They'd mail it to you brick by brick.
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My father was a US Army officer and when I was young we lived in Izmir, Turkey. At that time in the mid1960s there was nothing to buy locally and the military PX only had toys sporadically so we lived the Sears catalog.
We could place our order and receive the goods through the PX.
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