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 ...

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 ‘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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...

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 ...

We check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in the 1920s. To commemorate Mail Order Catalog Day on August 18, we’ll check in on an Iowa home or two ordered from a Sears Catalog in ...

According to an article in the May 15, 2006 edition of the Wall Street Journal, about 70,000 to 100,000 homes made by Sears, Roebuck and Co. were sold through Sears catalogs from 1908 to 1940. The ...

In our “Information Age” it might be difficult to comprehend the significance of Sears, Roebuck & Co. in the lives of several generations of mountain people. Comparable to the World Wide Web, the ...