by Sears Homes | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Who owns this pre-1923 image from an old Sears catalog? * I sure don’t want my wonderful fun-laden website to turn into an on-going tutorial on copyright issues, but several times in the last few years, people have asked me, “Isn’t an image from an...
by Sears Homes | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorized |
It started with an old dinner plate. Sometime in the 1950s, my creative, colorful, California-loving mother purchased Gladding McBean Franciscan dinnerware with an “Atomic” starburst pattern. My brothers and I grew up eating breakfast, lunch and dinner off...
by Sears Homes | Jan 29, 2014 | Uncategorized |
There are more than 800 blogs at this site, and many thousands of photos. THOUSANDS of photos. I love these old kit homes and I love this piece of our history, but I’m getting mighty disheartened and discouraged. Today, I have discovered (for the umpteenth time)...
by Sears Homes | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Sometime in the 1930s, a man named Frank Workman not only built a Sears Strathmore, but he had the wisdom to document part of the process through photographs. About 80 years later, a kind soul named Ms. Dickinson had the wisdom to save those photos and put them on...
by Sears Homes | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“We have worked out an attractive exterior along the lines commonly known as ‘Americanized English.'” So reads the text that accompanies the description of the pretty little Neo-Tudor, known as a “Wilmore.” And better yet, “The...
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