Even homes. From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

A family stands on the front porch of their Sears home – a model dubbed “The Westly” in the 1920s catalog – in Raleigh ... Oregon and Washington home in the 1940 U.S. census.

She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told – that she had built around 1935 at 217 Los Vegas Ave. Her new boyfriend who she would later marry ...

There were also fewer people on the West Coast in the years Sears sold mail-order houses. Just shy of 10 million people called California, Oregon and Washington home in the 1940 U.S. census.

The story went that Kendall’s first husband Richard Layton died in 1933 at age 23 after an illness. She used insurance money to purchase a house by mail order – from Sears, family was told – that she ...

I am disappointed because when I saw the game’s box back at TantrumCon earlier this year, I thought back to all the years I spent growing up with a Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail order catalog in my ...

Warren Sears' journey brings him back home to Kansas City as the newest Meteorologist of the KCTV 5 weather team. A proud Jayhawk, Warren graduated with a degree in Atmospheric Science from the ...

For more than two decades, Sears Home Services has offered home warranty coverage that extends to appliances and home systems. The company offers a 180-day service guarantee and a preventative ...

OAKLAND -- It was difficult for JP Sears not to feel a bit sentimental as he took the mound on Saturday night. With this being the last homestand for the A’s at the Coliseum-- the stadium they’ve ...