by Sears Homes | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In June 1938, an in-depth article on Penniman appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch. The article featured a long photo of Penniman’s residential area. And it’s a photo that I’ve never seen before (other than the grainy image in the RT Dispatch)....
by Sears Homes | Mar 29, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“Rose, do you know what this thing is?” That’s what my neighbor asked me Friday night, as we were standing in the front yard, enjoying the pleasant evening. In the back of his truck, he showed me a 2×6 with a metal ring recessed into a matching...
by Sears Homes | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized |
According to “Sears, Roebuck, USA: The Great American Catalog Store and How It Grew,” a Sears customer wrote the Chicago Mail-order giant and asked if she could return several bottles of patent medicine that she’d purchased the month before. In her...
by Sears Homes | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Incredible researcher and smart cookie Mark Hardin has made another remarkable discovery. He found an advertisement (dated October 1922) in the Richmond Times Dispatch, offering the Village of Penniman for sale. By this time, most of the contents of the WW1 munitions...
by Sears Homes | Mar 20, 2014 | Uncategorized |
In 2008, Ersela Jordan contacted me and told me that she’d discovered a surfeit of Sears Homes in Beckley, WV. Turned out, she was right! About the same time, another Beckley resident named Sandi Daniels got in on the fun and said that she’d found a Sears...
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