Sears will live on, at least for now. The company's chairman and largest shareholder and chairman, Eddie Lampert, won a January bankruptcy auction for Sears in New York, averting liquidation of the ...

It’s not 1939 outside. But this unfortunate date (see above) hasn’t prevented me from perusing, in some detail, the Fall-Winter catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. They are perhaps my only costly vice ...

We can’t reproduce their text or pictures here, but I can think of few better historical sources than the old Sears catalogs — both genuine and reprinted — that I’ve collected for years. Here’s a ...

A few days ago, while browsing my bookshelves in our storage room, I came across a book I’ve had for possibly 30 years or more. I pulled it down, and began to scan through it. Wow! Things have changed ...