by Sears Homes | Nov 21, 2012 | Uncategorized |
“Look at those prices!” That’s probably the #1 comment I hear from people as they browse the pages of an old Sears Modern Homes catalog. Why were Sears kit homes priced so incredibly low? Well, they weren’t really. Like everything else in...
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 | Jan 28, 2011 | Uncategorized |
In the 1960s, A&P dominated the grocery store line-up here in Southeastern Virginia. Do any of them remain? I don’t know of any in Hampton Roads. Below is an ad from the 1926 Ladies Home Journal for the “Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.”...
by Sears Homes | Jan 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Dr. Joseph Lister – a 19th Century British physician – is largely responsible for the bungalow craze, but that’s one tidbit that I’ve never seen in my books on architectural history. The fact is, Joseph Lister and his germ theory dramatically...
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