by Sears Homes | Apr 29, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Did you know that Buster Keaton did a short film about building a pre-cut kit house? First released in 1920, the 20-minute film shows happy newlyweds (Buster and Sybil) receiving the gift of a “ready-to-assemble” kit home. Driven by jealousy, an old beau...
by Sears Homes | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized |
For five years, Dale Wolicki and I labored to write a book on Wardway Homes titled, The Mail Order Homes of Montgomery Ward. My oh my, did we work hard on that book! This incredible tome has 347 pages and more than 500 vintage and extant photos of the kit homes sold...
by Sears Homes | Jan 26, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In February 2012, it will have been 10 years since I published my book, The Houses That Sears Built. Writing that book was a labor of love, but it was also an incredibly intense experience. By Christmas 2001, I had nearly finished the manuscript. For our Christmas...
by Sears Homes | Jan 7, 2012 | Uncategorized |
One of my favorite memories from childhood was riding with my father to Suffolk to visit the peanut vendors and inspect their product. My father was an assistant manager at Skippy Peanut Butter in Portsmouth, and also their purchasing agent. Suffolk has always been...
by Sears Homes | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Sears sold kit homes, and they also sold kit garages. In fact, in the late 1910s, they offered a specialty catalog of nothing but their pre-cut kit garages. Identifying a “Sears kit garage” is far more difficult than identifying kit homes, because...
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