Sears-iana at Yahoo! Groups http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/ Sears-iana Getting a-hold of some older Sears catalogs Wed, 16 May 2007 13:02:42 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/8 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/8 The wonders of ebay.com mean I've recently found some Sears Catalogs of an older vintage than the ones I've been collecting more intensively, from 1973 - 1980, A sentiment maintained--trip to K-Mart this morning Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:01:56 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/7 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/7 I bought a whole bunch of stuff that occurred to me at our Fairfax K- Mart, which is closer to where I live than Sears out at Fair Oaks. I picked up some Sears Holding (SHLD, Nasdaq) on the rise Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:49:49 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/6 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/6 Wondering about the Sears Holding enterprise that owns both Sears and K-Mart, I went to look up the stock. It's SHLD, and closed on Friday, 16 February 2007, Today's K-Mart: as good as Wal*Mart or Target, but with a grand he Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:13:10 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/5 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/5 In a movement I'd characterize as being "S.O.S." (Save Our Sears), I decided I'd see what our Fairfax K-Mart is looking like, up on Route 29. I'd read by this The 1975 Sears Electronic Slide Rule came in the mail today (Photo Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:54:36 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/4 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/4 It was a day for the retro enthusiast, when I finally got the Electronic Slide Rule that is exactly the one on the scanned 1975 catalog page 1095. I used to Photo of 1902 catalog cover reproduction Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:04:42 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/3 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/3 Grandma got me the condensed Sears Catalog of 1902 facsimile in 1973, after noting how much I loved thumbing through it. The way I figure it, they probably Oh, and the scans from 1975 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:03:27 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/2 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/2 I was looking up info on a vintage Sears "slide rule" calculator, and made high-resolution scans of 3 pages from the Spring/Summer catalog: Still a solid presence in my home Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:01:24 GMT Raymond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/message/1 I was brought up to think washers dryers and vacuums should be Kenmore, and my Dad did his role-modeling using a great many Sears tools. I have no idea, the