by Sears Homes | Sep 3, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Ever hear of schadenfreude? For years, I’d always called it, “The Crab Theory.” Schadenfreude is a German word that means delighting in the misfortune of others. I had never heard of this word until I was doing some research for my book The Ugly...
by Sears Homes | Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
This Sears Alhambra is in a section of town that was near Ida Barbour Park (public housing which has since been torn down). It’s been through many changes through the years, but is still in remarkably good condition. Notice how the red dumpster in the corner...
by Sears Homes | Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Today, the magazine is heavy on diet tips and light on home related topics, but it wasn’t always that way. In the early 1900s, Ladies’ Home Journal was (get ready), a magazine devoted to improving the lot of women who wanted to be homeowners, or women who...
by Sears Homes | Aug 28, 2010 | Uncategorized |
In the mid-1880s, while working as a railway station agent in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, Richard Warren Sears paid $50 for a shipment of watches that arrived at the train station and had been refused by a local merchant. Selling them to other railway agents and...
by Sears Homes | Aug 28, 2010 | Uncategorized |
Sears Homes were kit homes that were sold right out of the pages of the Sears Roebuck catalog in the early 1900s. More than 370 designs of kit homes were offered – everything ranging from Arts and Crafts bungalows to foursquares to Colonial Revivals. These homes...
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