While Cary hasn’t been to a Sears store in a few years, he does fondly reflect on his youth when the Sears catalogs brought wishful dreams to his small farm in West Tennessee.

Leafing through a Sears catalog, circling what you want, may be the brand's biggest gift to our cultural zeitgeist. The telephone-book sized anthology of anything you'd ever need or want stands ...

The Sears catalog issued in the fall of 1918 states. "The factory at Meriden where the well-known Meriden Fire Arms were made has discontinued the manufacture of sporting fire arms." ...

When a $1.1 million Craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado, was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797, or the equivalent of around $32,000 today. Even ...

Aside from the obvious browsing (I did a lot) and ordering (I only did a little), the Sears catalogs had another important function. Probably you, like me, grew up in the city and stayed in "modern" ...

In 1895, clothing manufacturer Julius Rosenwald became a partner in Sears. Rosenwald is credited with bringing in the business strategies that sent Sears booming—with sales jumping from $750,000 ...

Inside one of the last remaining Sears stores in the U.S. 01:41 Sears was once one of the most successful department stores in America, but is now down to just eight locations in the U.S.

Standing alone beside the mountain of debris that once was Metcalf South Shopping Center, the Sears store of Scott Lane’s youth is passing its final summer surrounded by retail destruction.

Those seeking to get a start on their Christmas shopping often began by perusing the Sears catalog and perhaps ventured to malls in search of gifts between stops at Your Host Restaurants which ...