by Sears Homes | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Tonight, for the first time in months, I got on the ham radio, calling CQ on the 40-meter band. My second contact was “Bob.” In a flash, my buddy Milton (sitting with me) looked up Bob’s call sign on his computer, and started laughing hysterically....
by Sears Homes | Aug 22, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Hopewell! Alas, poor Hopewell. They have an interesting collection of Aladdin kit homes, and yet for reasons that elude me, they’ve done nothing to promote these homes. One example is this Aladdin “Carnation” (shown below). It sits in a working class...
by Sears Homes | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized |
When I visited Hopewell in 2003 (to give a talk), I was shown a well-publicized brochure touting 44 Sears Homes in Crescent Hills. As mentioned in several other blogs (here, here and here), I feel strongly that they’re wrong about 36 of those houses. In my...
by Sears Homes | Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized |
We’ve got a mystery here in Colonial Place/Riverview section of Norfolk. In 2007, I moved to Colonial Place/Riverview neighborhood and in that first week, I started walking around, admiring the old houses. The first time I saw these 14 identical bungalows in...
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