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Yesteryear? Do you remember Sears & Robuck and Co.? by Ceil Winters

Photo of a Sears & Robuck in Key West Florida back in Yesteryear!

Wow, I remember Sears & Robuck and Co. do you ?

When
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we ordered through a catalog all the furniture and necessities for our first born through a catalog and had to pick it up at the store!!!! Most of our clothes and even some folks ordered their home through a catalogue? We would go to the Sears Catalogue Dept., stand and browse the catalogue and place our order.

How times have changed....keep reading

Today, in the current age of technology, instead of a catalog that I had to go to the store to look at, I can go online, put in the subject and hundreds of online catalogs come up, I can order and have my order delivered to my home, and pay for it with a piece of plastic!

I don't recall ever using a credit card back then, not even a check so I guess it was cash only. Do you remember how we did back in the late 50' early 60's.

I'm sure there are many more stories from you just like mine so let's hear them.

Another thing I remember is putting everything ordered from the catalogue and put in lay-away for Christmas and paying weekly to get out in time for Christmas.

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8 Comments on Yesteryear? Do you remember Sears & Robuck and Co.? by Ceil Winters

APR

Howdy there Carl and Ceil

I sure do remember Sears and Robuck and Co. The main catalog warehouse, was located in K.C., Mo. It sure was big. If I remember right it was a 4 story building. It was built with red bricks. It was a real fine looking building. We used cash to pay for the items we ordered there.

Very fine post Ceil. Thank you, for the real good memorys.

God Bless America

Dale when we lived on the island we did not many choices except the long trip up the keys to Miami that was an all day trip having to catch the ferry from island to island. Those were the days unfortunately the younger generation will never have the opportunity to have some of the experiences that we had back in our day. There are some good things and not so good that comes with growth.

Howdy there Carl and Ceil

Ceil - you sure are right about that. Not to sure if folks now a days, could even handle some of the things from back then. LOL

I can tell ya, I'm glad that I did not miss out on any of it.

God Bless America

APR

Hey
Guys

I was actually in Sears today. It was dead in that store and inventory.... except for tools looked minimal. I hope they survive!

Trey - I'm with you on that. I don't know how they survived this long. Remember back to Montgolmery Wards's, Kress, Walgreen's, Neisner's all gone. I believe we will see more and more disappear. They certainly served the purpose in the day but things have changed.

APR

Carl, I not only remember Sears and Robuck but I remember the Montgomery Ward stores too. Wow! I am really telling my age...

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Hey Michael Carl is on his way out the door but said to tell you its certainly is fun to talk about things and the young folks look at you like.........Whaz he talking about? Over Easter we discussed how things had changed, Ceil mentioned her dad at worked for Montgomery Wards and the grandkids wanted to know if that was a hospital? (ha,ha)

JUN

Well the homes they built are still around. I just recently listed one in Gulfport, FL. that still shows like a model. You can see pictures on my website @ www.ssirealtyllc.com I just thought you might be interested in seeing one that is still standing.

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