It was a gift from Laura Engles Wilder's daughter to Laura and her husband in their later years.
Posted on 12/03/2015 7:21:55 PM PST by EveningStar
Haha - one day my younger brother and I got hold of and were looking through the Sears catalog. Maybe I was 12? We’d just gotten to the womens’ lingerie section when my Dad showed up. Didn’t notice him approaching (not surprisingly.)
Oops!
Oh nos! What is Venezuela going to do for toilet paper?!!
Ha, childhood memories.
Heh, these days a “neighborhood” order of firearms would attract some attention! Unless you are Muslim, of course.
What year was that ad from?
ACE Hardware carries some Craftsman tools.
They sent out their catalogs and delivered to barely civilized boondocks out in the great plains where people really had few options.>>>
You could by a house from the catalog
Sears was a great store back in the day.....still have a house full of Kenmore appliances & they have lasted forever.
Probably. The brand is also sold at Ace Hardware, Grainger, and a few other places.
It was a gift from Laura Engles Wilder's daughter to Laura and her husband in their later years.
Sears hasn’t remodeled their mall store near me in literally 45 years. this year, the mall management built a new, attractive area around the ugly Sears to block peoples’ view of the unsightly store.
I enjoyed the Sears catalog too when I was a young guy.
Google: Sears catalog lingerie
It was the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition of it’s day.......
I had a card around that time. When I relocated from Chicago to Tacoma WA they had to ‘transfer my account’ from one region to another. When they did that they vacuumed up all the bad accounts of people with my name across the country. I suddenly owed hundreds of dollars more.
I’ve been in Sears about 4-5 times since then.
“Sears is a child of the railroads and telegraph.”
True. Good point. Sears is a relic and it is sad to see them empty in malls in Northridge and Ventura.
None of the labeled batteries are made by the name on the label.
Delphi, Exide & Johnson Controls are the actual manufactures.
About 15 yrs ago, Sears ran a commercial about their lifetime warranty on tools. They used the example of a broken wooden handle on a hammer. Not a month after seeing the commercial, I broke the wooden handle on my craftsman hammer. Sears refused to replace it, but they were “willing” to sell me a new handle. So— ha, ha, bye bye.
If Sears goes under I’m screwed: won’t be able to replace my lifetime-warranty Craftsmen hoses whenever I accidentally run over then with a lawnmower or squash the ends accidentally running them over on the driveway with a car.
“They do make some of the best garden hoses available, however.”
If Sears goes under I’m screwed: won’t be able to replace my lifetime-warranty Craftsmen hoses whenever I accidentally run over then with a lawnmower or squash the ends accidentally running them over on the driveway with a car.
Right, always take something else down with you. Sears had to infect Kmart.
RiteAide had to infect Thriftys.
lol
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