Sears modern homes
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2022
- Today on what’s it’s like 10,000 sub episode off car topic. Sears Modern homes
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Jane Jefferson starship
You got it =) I made it harder that time.. I listened to it back and it was hard for me to even heard what the song was.
It was easy for me, lol. Always been a huge Jefferson airplane and starship fan.
@@leightonfarms4962 I can't help but being an "Airplane" fan, LOL.
@@jamesslick4790 right? Lol you probably get asked all the time if you are related
@@leightonfarms4962 I used to in the 70's and 80's, Now it's only OTHER "boomers" who even think to ask, LOL. The "zoomers" don't know Grace Slick from Lady Gaga, LOL. P.S. Slick IS my REAL last name, But it's Grace's MARRIED name. Her maiden name is Wing. (Admittedly Grace Wing is ALSO an awesome name. Particularly if you are in The Jefferson AIRPLANE!) So I cannot be a blood relative to Grace, However if I'm related at all to her "ex", filmmaker Gerald Slick, I don't know. Maybe: it's not a super common last name, LOL.
First home purchase in 1984 was a well built 1924 sears home.. loved it
We went trick-or-treating yesterday and I kept looking around and I was like that’s a sears house, still many around which speaks to the quality in which they were build some over 100 years old now
Wow, I did not know they sold brick schoolhouses! Kudos. That tune is right from my time.
I didn’t know about the school house until researching for this episode.. I want to know if they build that kit or was it just a proposal.. if you can stop the slide and read it it is very interesting.. or better yet here is a link
So while getting the link I found this article apparently one was built and it’s in Pennsylvania I might have to check that out =) here is the link to the article
www.houzz.com/discussions/2455540/this-old-schoolhouse-have-you-seen-it
My great-grandfather was a carpenter and he specialized in assembling Sears houses for customers. My grandfather would occasionally help him and he said they were of good quality and value for what they cost.
I’ve read that there are quite a few serious homes still standing and some people say that they’ve lived in new houses and then they got a series modern home that’s almost 100 years old in with the whole lot better than the new house that they just left.. I was in one one time I had to deliver a Cabinets they told me it was a sears home and it was in the middle of summer.. The house did not have air-conditioning but it was nice and cool inside the house..
@@What.its.like. Unlike a "prefab" house, The Sears houses (and other "kit" houses like "Alladin" and "Gordon Van Tine") were merely "pre cut" (saving MUCH labor) the components were the SAME as any standard built house of the era, But for the size of the houses they were often better as since the lumber was factory cut, there was often less "slop" and "patchwork" as there would be on a normal "stick built" house. This method DID deliver high quality precision that even a "workman" could afford. Sears offered two levels of many houses "Standard" and "Honor Bilt" The "Standard" was, well standard, as would be built by any contractor building "spec" houses of the era. The "Honor Bilt" versions were of a superior quality. So, it's possible to find a MODEST Sears house that had the construction of a much HIGHER priced house of the same era! (Ya won't get THAT today!, A McMansion of today has the same quality of the CHEAPEST house built now, Just bigger!)
Would have loved to had been Sears' architect for these...unending commissions from 1908 to 1942. I lived in a Sears Craftsman Bungalow in Long Beach, California for a few years. It was assembled in 1934, the year after the Long Beach Earthquake. The railroad brought the kit from Michigan to the Los Angeles Southern Pacific Railroad yards, where my great uncle was an accountant at the time, loaded onto two flatbed diesel trucks and delivered it to Newport Avenue where carpenters, electricians and plumbers assembled it according to plan. Lots of houses in my neighborhood were Craftsman bungalows because the quake had made so many of the Spanish Mission masonry houses so unstable and these Sears wooden structure were know to flex rather than crumble during seismic activity. Sharp looking, modern design that brings to mind old wooden Swiss chalets. 7:38 "Corona" used to make people think of that delicious Mexican beer with a wedge of lime. Now it makes people think a virus.
I love the version of modern like today’s version of modern is minimalist.. thank you so much for sharing that great story =)
@@Jack_Russell_Brown Yes, the quake wasn't so bad that far north & west. I has a condo in a building on Beverly in Whittier that had to be reinforced after their 1987 quake and it took our Monthly Assoc dues from $140 to $300!! We were shocked but now 300 would be downright cheap.
Yeah Jay, I can remember many of these homes when I was a boy, growing up in Hayward, California. There were so many there , from the 1930's and '40's. Some of them were very simple, and others, so very elaborate. Good memories. Wished that Sears were still around.
There is a lot of houses around here that could be sears homes especially in new castle Pennsylvania
Our family grew up looking at and buying things from the Sears Catalog, and as a renovation contractor I recognized a few of the homes you showed having worked on many of them. Btw, we now live in Savannah, GA and the most famous park in Savannah hosts a magnificent fountain in Forsyth Park which was ordered from a Sears Catalog of which many people use to say: "You can buy anything from a Sears Catalog!" even fountains.
Awesome story and memory thank you so much for sharing =)
I just saw the other day that I can’t remember the generals name but he mail ordered from Sears tanks and war supplies that’s nuts lol
2627 Sumner St. in Lincoln Nebraska is a Sears kit house. My grandfather told me about sitting across the street on his porch watching them assemble the house. It’s a big 2 story house with a finished attic. Plaster walls and hardwood trim. When we removed the carpet going up the steps, you could see where the narrow carpet runner originally went up the center of the steps.
Might revisit this topic I’d love to go to tour some if that’s even a thing =)
congrats on breaking a barrier dude!
Thank you couldn’t have done it without all of you =)
First, congrats on reaching 10K views! Sears was a HUGE company many years ago. Heck even the Three Stooges tried their hands at building a kit house!
Thank you. It sucks to look back and see how great sears was and now they aren’t around anymore.
I think Buster Keaton did too in the silent film where the front facade of the house falls over on him but he's saved because there was one window that wasn't installed yet and the hole built for it keeps him from getting struck.
Sears Toughskin Jean's. I was privileged to have worn those in the early 70s. Lol
I never even heard of those before I’m not really into clothes lol I’m into orphan cars and cars off the beaten path the long forgotten classic cars,
So funny side story all my family members my wife my mom and my grandma saying that’s all I ever talk about it’s weird obscure cars.. like to the point grandma asks me if there is anything else in my life. And I’m like no lol. This channel has given me the opportunity to review the car’s I’ve always talked about. Mission is to do a 1958 edsel before this years end.
@@What.its.like. yep! Congrats does Grandma happen to still be with us? She would love the channel!
Yeah mom and grandma are all I have left aside from extended family I live on seven sub-divided acres with mom and grandma I see them everyday =)
Congratulations on 10K. Interesting content and well presented.
Thank you =)
My parents and their 5 kids lived in the Hampton starting in 1942. They paid $6,500 for the house that was built in 1927. It had had 3 small bedrooms and one bathroom. And we never felt as if we were to crowded in the house. How times have changed!
Great story thank you so much for sharing that story =)
Cute houses.
Congratulations Jay on hitting 10k subscribers!!!! I'm so excited for you!!!
Just imagine ordering a house from the Sears catalog!!! Amazing!!! 👍👍🙂
Thank you so much it means a lot =) I honestly can’t wait so ideas
@@What.its.like. Next stop 20,000 subscribers!!! 👍
Congrats Jay on 10,000 subscribers love this episode I live in a 1920 craftsman bungalow myself
Thank you so much that’s awesome what’s it like living in a sears styled home
it’s built very solid with 14 inch poured concrete foundation and mark 2 in the garage
I haven’t forgot the last couple weeks have been crazy =) hopefully soon though it’s been on my mind
@@What.its.like. 😎 cool thanks
Cool video.
Please consider doing a video of Palm Springs Mid - Century houses , particularly the work of architects like William “Bill” Krisel (1924 - 2017) There is something totally iconic about a Dodge Coronet sitting in the drive way of an American modern house.
Where is the American Architect designed house today??...they all look like cookie cutter houses out of a Harry Potter movie.
Also other topics might be the Googie Design style (NOT Google!) which apparently got its name from the coffee shop in LA.... also buildings of the World Fairs as a topic.
Thank you for those cool off topic ideas off topic will be ever 5k =)
Good example of Googie design is the Theme Restaurant at LAX, the building that looks like a flying saucer that landed on four giant semicircular girders.
The last half of my career in carpentry has been in remodeling and renovating homes, and I've worked on restoring 3 Sears homes as well as having a deep look at many more. One feature of the older models is that they used short enough lumber lengths which could be transported from the railyard by wagon, as the more remote areas still didn't have trucking firms available yet. How well these endure is based on two things other than maintenance: One is who the builder was; a lot of these were DIY jobs and assembly quality wasn't always good. Two is that these were built on 'piers' and not continuous footings like we use today. Soil science wasn't a thing and the foundations for these piers often sank from being made too small for the soils. The term "Craftsman" homes arises from these, as most which were built had some more ornate mouldings and details like fretwork trim on the exterior which was high style in the era. Local craftsmen couldn't match the costs of such things, not having mass production facilities available. Specialty trades like plumbing, plastering, and electrical were almost always contracted out, as those needed skills only gained through experience.
To truly restore old homes is very costly as many things like galvanized and cast iron plumbing have become nearly 'lost arts' since they haven't been used in decades and all the electrical will be "knob and tube" which must all be replaced by law. This sadly has led to many of them being torn down as it wasn't economically feasible to save them and this continues. There's a very small segment of home-buyers who look for these old houses and restore them to save them even with the high costs, but there's not enough of them to counter the losses, so while there will always be some old homes, the numbers are declining steadily overall. Sears was the 'WalMart' of the day, with their cheapest goods not being of the best quality though their higher-end goods were great values, and indeed you could get anything you wanted from Sears save for perishable foods. I wish more of the old homes were saved, but historical value now is mostly limited to the grander homes and those who had someone important to history as the original owners orlater residents. Sad to see them go, but that's how the business goes.
Awesome thank you so much for sharing your experience with us about sears houses never thought about cast iron plumbing
At one time you could buy a house, all the furnishings, clothing, a garage AND a car from Sears. Sears sold EVERYTHING except nuclear weapons! (Although a "Craftsman" nuke would at least have had a helluva warranty!). No joke though: It would be easier to make a list of things NOT sold by Sears at one time or another. They also started Allstate Insurance and the Discover card (among other financial services). My Mother worked for Sears, And I later worked for KMart. KMart eventually bought Sears. Eddie Lampert has done a great job destroying both iconic stores.
Thank you so much for sharing all of that information sears was the Amazon of its day.. if I had access to a time machine that would be on the list of stops as well as mid 30s packard dealership
👍 Jay
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First, congratulations on reaching 10K subscribers! Secondly, this was a great subject to cover, as I'm sure many folks have never heard of these. BTW, Richard Nixon grew up on one of these Sears homes. It is now located at his Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA.
Honestly couldn’t have gotten to this milestone without all of you thank you so much for digging the channel
Yes, Jay deserves it. Timely, interesting and well-research postings every time.
congratulations, thanks
Thank you so much =) couldn’t have gotten here without all of you
Congratulations on 10k, so awesome!!👍😃 Great video to celebrate too! 😎 Besides the vintage classic autos, homes and architecture have always been a very strong interest of mine. I love looking at vintage homes and floor plans! I also remember growing up spending a lot of time looking through the Sears catalog, especially the Christmas catalog edition! I agree it is very sad that some of these great old stores have gone. It it is amazing Justi to think that there was a time when you could order an entire home from a mail order catalog! That Magnolia model does look beautiful as well as the Packard for sure! 🤩 That would be one sweet dream have those no doubt! I grew up and live in Central Florida and I have seen quite a few homes that look like some of those especially the Magnolia, and it does look Grand! Man the name that tune is driving me crazy I went to my playlist and I was thinking Def Leppard, and then I started thinking that older rocks in that , I'm stumped, it was driving me crazy , but now I see someone got it and that I was way off LOL, I do Jefferson Airplane and Starship too! 🤘😎
=) thank you so much for watching going to make the off topic episode every 5k subs so 15k we’ll do another off topic episode maybe architecture, boats, steam powered, trains something cool outside of the norm =)
There were OTHER kit houses sold back then, but those were offered by lumber mills and others whose business was construction related, what makes the Sears houses special is they were sold by a retail store. That's wild. I cannot see this today: Who in their RIGHT MIND would want a Wal*Mart house?!? 😂As to the school, Many Pittsburgh suburbs have old school buildings similar to this style. (I know I went to three of them in the 1970s!)
Great information thank you so much for sharing =) yeah I missed that time period great idea concept.. that couldn’t be done today could you even imagine the warning labels. Like nails are for wood not flesh. Try not kick the windows lol I wonder if amazon will go down this road they offer everything else.
Sears also sold their own brand of car in the early 1950's. It was the Allstate and was a re-badged Henry-J which was built by the Kaiser Fraser corporation.
@@billolsen4360 Yes, and years before the Allstate ( in the early 1900s) they sold a car under the "Sears" name. (I don't know who the OEM manufacturer was for those though.
@@jamesslick4790 Just looked it up. Sears Motor Buggy, manufactured in Sears' own Chicago factory from 1908 to 1913.
@@billolsen4360 OH, COOL! an ACTUAL Sears car! Nice! Thanks! Fills in a bit of history! My mother worked for Sears (50's-70's) and I worked for K Mart (80's-90") It's wild that they merged AFTER all of that! LOL.
When I heard Sears had went under at first I couldn't believe it, they had been around for so long I didn't think they could go belly up.
It just proves that years a bad management and poor decisions any company could go under doesn’t matter how big the company is
They should have had the Amazon idea first and just applied new technology to an existing marketing plan.
It's important to note that "other companies" haven't taken Sears' plans... Sears typically took the plans from other sources, and offered "pre-packaged" building materials to execute the plan. The plans were from a variety of sources, home journals, trade books, etc.
Thank you for that correction but there are companies that if you go to them or contractors they will build you a sears house or a house that is like a sears home. It’s just like cars designers take ideas and influences from other cars.. so designs look alike
I grew up in the Winona in Bedford ohio was built in the 20s
Very cool, thank you!
I had no idea that Sears had so many different house styles available.
A friend of mine grew up in a Sears house. I didn't see it in any of the pictures you showed, but you might call it a 'shotgun shack'. Basically it was a square or slightly rectangular single story floor plan on a raise foundation. It had 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, a living room and a screened-in front porch.
I'm not sure when it was built, but I would link it to the migration of people from Oklahoma to California during the Oklahoma 'dust-bowl' era. This area is know as "Highway City" in Central California, now positioned between our old California 99(Golden State Blvd) and California Freeway 99. Some of the original residents and families lived there well into the 1980's.
These houses were built using excellent materials and, like the house my friend grew up in, is still standing and people have consistently lived in it.
As a side note, wondering how the people from Oklahoma ended up where they did, as they migrated up and down the West Coast along the Highway 99 , an answer was that is where we ran out of gas and money.
Glad you liked this episode I always look forward to your comments corrections and conversations =)
There were so many ads for houses 370+ different designs.. I wish I was around when it was relevant it’s super cool that they lasted, the houses, out lived there company that offered them
Many of the very earliest, low cost Sears houses were "shotgun shack" style. They were sold in different sizes with AND without bathrooms!
One bathroom upstairs. For night time use and for guests. Otherwise you used the outhouse out back.
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That was a great guess but that’s not them it’s earlier than that
hi Jay I finally got to watch you're whole Sears house video yes I remember going to Sears with my family the start of school shopping for clothes or other thing's and yes I had lot's of Sears craftsman tool's worked on a lot's of car's they never let me down ok now about the Sears house kit those I herd of I Herd one man once tell a nother man that he and his bother in law built his home from a Sears home kit he said it came out as nice solid home he all so said it came with everything he needed down to the last nail he also said him his wife raised there kid's in it and the kid's went off to college and he retired in his Sears house now about the school house that one I never herd of that looked like big school and yes it may have looked like a creepy mental hospital why so big it looked like it was three stories it may have been as boarding private school for the rich kid's or one for poor troubled kid's with out parents or only a single mother that lost her husband in WW1 that had no family that could help her take care of her kid's like kid's that lost there dad in WW1 goodnight Jay :-)
Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me that story.. I was going to say the insane asylum/mental hospital. I didn’t know about the school house until researching this topic.. mail in order house who knew
Interesting and different video. I was aware that Sears sold houses through the catalog, never knew the variety of styles that were available. Did you know that Sears sold automobiles through the catalog I think they were Allstate brand? Congratulations on reaching 10k subscribers! Always enjoy your videos Jay.
Thank you so much for the positive vibes I’ve been looking for an all state if memory serves me correct wasn’t that pretty much the same as a Kaiser Henry J?
@@What.its.like. I remember seeing an Allstate in the National Automobile Museum in Reno Nevada. That is how I was aware of the vehicle, I have never seen one in real life. Probably far out of the way for you, and I'd be surprised if they ever let anyone put their hands on it. Wikipedia says you are correct, it was identical to the Henry J.
Did you get to sit in the driver seat and show the headroom? The buttons switches and knobs? Put your camera in the glovebox? 😂
Unfortunately not on this one lol
Houses built before 1942 are not hard to find. There are entire neighborhoods of Sears houses.
6:29 WOOD was better back then!
It wasn’t just better it was real.. sears Wasn’t the same company in my lifetime as they were back in the day totally different company night and day transformation
hi Jay I hope all is good and all is well and all swell ah does my name ring a bell lol :-D ha ha have goodnight and great rest of the week and a great coming weekend p.s no I don't get tired of the car video's but yah I'm interested in other topics how about a video on sailing and steam powered etc boats and ship's from the 1600's 1700's on up to like 1960's and 70's the like classic Chris craft's and other ship's like windjammer's schooners and maybe U.S.Nevy ship's like WW1 and WW2 etc well just a thought goodnight Jay :-)
Yeah for sure I definitely got a kick out of that =D. There will be more off car topic episodes I’d love to review a stagecoach and see a live clydesdale that would be epic. And ideas for an off car topic episode haven’t decided it will probably be ever 5k subscriber up to 100k and then something super special for that episode
@@What.its.like. hi Jay at what's it's like and thank you for you're reply and kind words Jay of course I will be looking for word to more car video's and you're super special video coming up and a very BIG CONGADULATION on you're 10,000 I'm happy for you now about that stage coach lol :-D ha ha I can't help you with that one but Budweiser the king of beers use to have tv advertisements with a wagon full of Budweiser beer pulled by a team six to eight Clydesdale's there you go Jay :-D lol :-D all you have do is get in touch with Budweiser co.about there wagon and team of Clydesdale's ah now the only question is can Jay be trusted with wagon full of beer lol :-D ha ha just kidding when say Budweiser you said it all :-D a very goodnight to you Jay p.s look at it this way you got nothing to lose by getting in touch with Budweiser co.and asking to do a video on the wagon and team of Clydesdale's you never know they just might set you up tell them it's good advertisement for them with you're 10,000 viewer's ok that's all the B.S. I can come up with :-D goodnight Jay my friend :-)
I’m not a beer drinker so a clydesdale beer wagon train will be safe. Thank you so much for the conversation =)
@@What.its.like. hi Jay and good morning well truth is I haven't drank in a long time but even if you don't drink beer still you could still get in touch with the the Budweiser co. about the wagon and Clydesdale's about making a video well just a thought and you have good day to Jay :-)
You have a very nice voice.
Thank you I personally hate my voice well maybe not hate but I never really like it..
@@What.its.like. well you sound really fine.
Jane..Jefferson Airplane/Starship
You got it =)
Jane by starship
You got it someone got it before you though
The price doesn't include the lot or labor!
Yeah price is just for everything to build the kit all assembly required. Couldn’t do something like that today because people just lack common sense now and the warnings labels would read don’t hammer nails into flesh/don’t eat nails, don’t lick the glass.. etc =D
What happened to Sears ?
They merged with Kmart and made some really poor choices and now don’t exist.. ( they my exist on internet but nothing like it used to be
killed by old hat thinking
Because you said corona, you video got dominitized.
No not quite I tried sharing it on a Facebook group a big Facebook group and it got turned down because of Admins ego I can’t stand people that have huge Facebook pages and act like they are gods..