Sears catalog from 1902

[Chiquita]

 

[Chiquita]

 

[Chiquita]

 

[rwj]

The “McMaster Carr” of the day!

 

[Downhill]

When a dollar was actually worth a dollar!

 

[D Coots]

Didn't they sell houses also?

 

[whatsupdoc]

Find the Suppressors

 

[rwj]

Didn't they sell houses also?

I believe they sold kits…

 

[whatsupdoc]

And just think how bad the management was to flush Sears down the drain.

 

[snert]

I just junked that sewing machine (only so much room and the antique place offered me the original price..) and I am pretty sure my Sgt broke that anvil, (he did it easily, cause that is what SWAT Sgt's do to everything) and I am positive I have two of those hammers in my drawer.

 

[D Coots]

Montgomery Wards also.

 

[Chiquita]

Top of the it says "cheapest supply house on earth"

 

[Chiquita]

Anything you want me to check if they sell??

 

[DHuffman]

Didn't they sell houses also?

They did, I lived in one on a ranch in NW SD. Freighted in on wagons in the early 1900s, made for good conversation.

 

[ben lurkin]

The original “shop at home” company from a century ago; yet they couldn’t adapt to the digital age in this one to sell their wares. Sadly, they just demolished the Sears store in Salt Lake City. Spend many a day there as a kid around this time of year. We waited for the annual Christmas catalog and would spend hours pouring over it wishing for things out parents couldn’t afford. Bought my shop air compressor from there about 15 years ago. It’s still going strong.

 

[Herzo]

I have my grandfather's $16.00 shotgun from about that period.

 

[Bottom Fodder]

We didn’t have a Sears in the town I was raise but we finally got a pick center, order by phone and picked and paid at that pick up center Cause there was no debt card or ups back then, their Christmas catalogue was what kids looked at picked out what they hope Santa would bring them

 

[Herzo]

My father and his brother built one of their kit houses, it still stands near the Air Force museum at Wright Patterson AFB.

 

[RICK SMITH]

Didn't they sell houses also?

I was in a Sears catalog house the other day. Pretty cool coincidence.

 

[D Coots]

I have my grandfather's $16.00 shotgun from about that period.

I have my Grandpa's two row 20 gauge he bought at Montgomery Ward. Killed my first pheasant with it 61 years ago last month. Wasn't their brand Western Field?