Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...

Sears’ bankruptcy filing on Monday drummed up plenty of nostalgia for its heyday as the world’s biggest retailer. As Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. works to save its business, there’s no ...

Pictured above are some color TVs from the 627 page 1964 Sears Christmas Catalog, available here at WishbookWeb along with many other Christmas catalogs from 1933 to 1988. The original prices are ...

Before online shopping, holiday wishlists centered on a printed catalog that arrived by mail each year. Sears released its Wish Book months before December, often in late summer, and it quickly became ...

CAMBRIDGE It was the second “most wonderful day of the year.” While honors for the most wonderful day must still reside with the visit of Santa Claus, for many people of certain generations the second ...

It’s been one heck of a run for Sears, and it’s not over yet. The Chicago-based company went from a retail giant with a skyscraper forever embedded into our skyline, to filing for Chapter 11 ...

Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...

One of the best Christmas or Hanukkah presents that young baby boomers like me got even before the holidays did not cost our parents anything. This gift was as magical as many of the costly gifts that ...