Our only Sears store is closing. I remember showing my parents what I wanted from the Wish Book when I was a kid; it’s always been a fixture. The store is one of the last anchor stores in our shopping mall; when it goes, the whole place will be on its way to being a ghost town.
I remember being astounded as a boy when someone mentioned going into a Sears store! I thought Sears was mail order only, we regularly ordered from the catalog by mail order but I had never before heard of a Sears store that you could walk into. Of course we called it “Sears and Roebuck” in those days.