Southern California was just beginning to develop a taste for suburban sprawl in 1923 when an enterprising Venice property owner built a charming Craftsman home using plans and materials purchased ...

In yesterday’s editions, the Sept. 2 New Jersey Pick 6 lotter number was incorrect. The correct number was 15 26 35 36 40 46. + The Sun regrets the errors. NEW YORK — Just months after it broke 97 ...

Even though we were warned, it is difficult for children of the Great Depression to accept the news that the Sears catalog has died and that Sears, Roebuck and Co. itself isn’t feeling so well. For ...

Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Not long ago, the Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog was the ultimate ...

From heroin to houses, Sears had it all. But before the Chicago business became America’s largest retailer—and affixed its name to the world’s tallest building—Sears started by selling time. In 1886, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Sears was founded in Chicago and ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co. said Monday that it is re-evaluating plans to force the closure of all its independently owned catalog stores. Instead, the company said, it may opt to keep as many as 25 ...

Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

At one point in history, you could get just about anything courtesy of the Sears catalog—even a home, as Popular Mechanics reports. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold prefabricated ...

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp has named a non-retail executive, Lou D'Ambrosio, as chief executive, concluding a three-year search for a new CEO of a once iconic American retailer ...