My mother gave me the coolest thing ever — the 1964 Spring and Summer edition of the Sears Catalog. No one comes to my house and sees it without gasping and wanting to flip through the pages to see ...

In the early ‘50s, I was a Korean War vet, attending college and supplementing my income as a male model in Chicago (“Tears and Roebuck,” by Dan Neil, 800 Words, Dec. 9). I was one of those “underwear ...

A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

Anything could be bought from a Sears catalog: kitchen tables, lamps, clothes, dishes, stoves, mantels — everything you could ever need. You could even buy your house from Sears. Imagine paging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Sale Real Estate Sign in Front of New House. Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything ...

Dan Neil can be reached at dan.neil@latimes.com. A couple of random notes about the Sears, Roebuck & Co. fall/winter catalog of 1957: Men seem strangely attached to pipe-smoking in their underwear.

In the early 1900s, Sears sold thousands of homes around the U.S. through its mail-order catalogs. Many of those houses are still around, and... Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything ...

MCCANDLESS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — If home is where the heart is, then those living in houses built from Sears’ mail-order kits may have fallen head-over-heels. Statewide, about 1,900 Sears catalog homes have ...