Posted on 10/15/2018 4:31:14 AM PDT by DCBryan1
At one time, Sears even sold its own brand of automobile, the Sears Allstate. It was a rebadged Henry J supplied by Kaiser Motors in the early 1950s.
When I bought my house in 1991, I went to Sear, and bought a washer, dryer, and microwave, and sold all 3 in perfect working condition with the house in 2010.
Mark
Amen, a perfect example of what not to do in business.
My wife and I are still the owners of the house she grew up in. Wasn’t built by Sears, but in 1954 her Dad had a Sears ‘LifeTime” roof installed. Looks almost like shingles but it is actually aluminum plates about a quarter inch thick - and it still doesn’t leak!
A relative lives in it now. I told the wife this morning, “damm, if they go bankrupt I guess there goes the LifeTime warranty on the roof. I’m sure your Dad expected to get more than 65 years out of it!”
K-Mart is owned by Sears
The other day on a TV show about "barn finds," one of the rarest motorcycles around today is an early 1920s Sears motorcycle that competed against HD & Indian. They were only made for 3 years, and only a handful are still in existence.
Mark
Amen, a perfect example of what not to do in business.
They sold off most of the better locations.
“Man I loved those Sears Christmas Catalogs.”
You were lucky. We got to look at it but got our presents from the green stamp catalog.
You got a toaster for Christmas?
Eddie robbed Sears blind, if I recall correctly. He transferred all their real estate holdings to his own company.
“but got our presents from the green stamp catalog”
Lucky you.
I always thought the S&H Green Stamps catalog had better toys, but my parents were big Handy Andy lovers so we were stuck with the yellow “Top Value” which contained a lot less choices. I still remember sitting there with a sponge and sticking down sheets of stamps in that little book.
Lambert drove Sears into the ground, and only after they file BK does he finally step down, something that he should have done years ago.
Yes sir.
Of course the one I had would have taken a lot of restoration to look like that, what with a 401 nail head Buick engine sitting half in the passenger compartment and half in the engine compartment. His vision was to make a streetable car that looked like a ‘gasser’ of the times. Apparently neither one of us know how to get the drivetrain properly aligned.
” You got a toaster for Christmas.”
Actually they had a good line of Tonka toys.
Fire trucks, dump trucks, road graders.
Spent many hours with them in the sand.
Our Sears is usually empty, as is the Mall it’s located in.......................
VERY different from other stores. Other stores have people to help you make selections, and perhaps even more important, they know how to operate a cash register...
[I have a friend who is living in a Sears home bought and put together back in the 50’s. Many of the original components are still good.]
Could be a “Golden Key”. Very popular in the 50’s early 60’s. My dad put up dozens of them. Used to come on a trailer and then assembled on the jobsite.
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