by Sears Homes | May 14, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When GE introduced their Monitor Top refrigerator in 1927, it quickly became one of their most popular appliances. Sixteen years earlier, GE had introduced the first residential refrigerator in the American market. Invented by French monk, Abbé Marcel Audiffren, this...
by Sears Homes | Jul 7, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In the 1930s, The “Monitor-top Refrigerator” quickly became one of General Electric’s most popular appliances. Its design was based on a sound principle and a highly efficient plan: The compressor sat atop the fridge, and heat extracted from the...
by Sears Homes | Aug 14, 2010 | Uncategorized |
A few weeks after The Houses That Sears Built was published, the New York Times decided to do a feature story on Sears Homes and contacted me for an interview. Soon after that, a New York production company rang. They were putting together a brand new show for PBS and...
by Sears Homes | Aug 11, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Kenmore is a name most of us associate with Sears products. For years and years, my mother had a Sears Kenmore sewing machine that she’d bought in 1949, a few weeks before my eldest brother was born. It was purchased so she could sew my brother’s layette.(...
by Sears Homes | Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized |
When I was first married in 1978, my then-husband and I started looking at kit homes from Aladdin, Lowes and Jim Walters. It was so fun to sit down and really study the 75-page catalogs that had arrived in our mailbox. We’d dream and scheme and talk about...
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