At one time people waited like children wait for Christmas, for the Sears Catalogue to arrive! The catalogue alone brought more joy than anyone nowadays could imagine!
It was such a wonderful concept that worked so well. Nothing is as good as this mail-order home, and nothing today even comes close to these build-it-yourself homes.
Thanks so much for this in depth history of the Sears home kits. I've read about these kits and seen a few pictures of the models but never knew the full story. I really enjoyed this video.
For a short while you could also order a car from Sears. It was a generic Henry J from Kaiser but it was a car sold by Sears that you could order from the catalog.
One of the things I noticed was the flow of background images and videos, a lot of which were not Sears homes. In fact, some of the images were of residential projects in Europe. Why??? Also, there was a tendency on the part of the narrator toward redundancy ... repeating the same things over and over again. This makes the video unnecessarily longer than it needs to be.
At one time people waited like children wait for Christmas, for the Sears Catalogue to arrive! The catalogue alone brought more joy than anyone nowadays could imagine!
I really miss Sears just walking around the store was loads of fun.
Some of these homes actually looked really decent . Very nice !! 👍🏻
It was such a wonderful concept that worked so well. Nothing is as good as this mail-order home, and nothing today even comes close to these build-it-yourself homes.
Thanks so much for this in depth history of the Sears home kits. I've read about these kits and seen a few pictures of the models but never knew the full story. I really enjoyed this video.
Very interesting
For a short while you could also order a car from Sears. It was a generic Henry J from Kaiser but it was a car sold by Sears that you could order from the catalog.
One of the things I noticed was the flow of background images and videos, a lot of which were not Sears homes. In fact, some of the images were of residential projects in Europe. Why??? Also, there was a tendency on the part of the narrator toward redundancy ... repeating the same things over and over again. This makes the video unnecessarily longer than it needs to be.
Thank you. Both of these drove me crazy.
Would be funny if you could order a car and it shows up in a crate like those ww2 jeeps. Assembly required lol
They also sold heroin!Or will I get censored for that.