Collectible Sears-iana--Sears and the American way of life

I'm not sure where exactly I'd go in developing a collecting tendency I have for things associated with Sears, Roebuck & Co.  We shopped on a very regular basis for Sears stuff throughout the 1970's, and when you flip through an old catalog like the ones I've found on ebay.com for 1975 - 1980, you realize the kind of presence the company has had in our lives and in forming our standard of living.  Not a predatory machine lke Wal*Mart, sad to say, but that's a shopping prospect I can take or leave.  As for Sears, I buy a great many tools there for around the house.  They sent a repairman to get my Kenmore washing machine operating properly.  When I replaced my vacuum cleaner in 2005, I got the old tried and true; a Kenmore.

What can I say, but "There's More for Your Life at Sears".

I'm doing a Yahoo Groups page by this name, at:

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sears-iana/

Until I can get some more visual content for this page, I can at least point to the scans I did of the electronic calculator pages from the Spring/Summer 1975 catalog:

http://www.bo-hemian.com/calc.hml

Those of you with a soft-spot for Sears through the years  might wish to shop there more often and not let the big-boxers crush them alive.  Even with a merger with K-Mart, you'd have a hard time catching up with those stores, where they most likely exploit low-wage workers.

I also think frequently of the song from "Finian's Rainbow":  That Great Come and Get It Day.  The catalog from which every wish could be fulfilled was given as "Shears Robust and Co".


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