A few more. We actually owned that riding mower, what a POS. It had solid bearings in the live rear axle and you had to keep turning the grease cups to keep the axle from eating it's way through the bearings. Sure beat walking though. :)
Don
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A few more. We actually owned that riding mower, what a POS. It had solid bearings in the live rear axle and you had to keep turning the grease cups to keep the axle from eating it's way through the bearings. Sure beat walking though. :)
Don
Wow Don That is cool. I still look at the price of an outboard engine and cringe. Even back then they were expensive! I think most of my boating friends have spent more on their engines than the boat it is in! It would be cool to own one of those original craftsman stand up chest of drawers/tool box. Cool styling!
Steve, I sat and went through the catalog last night and it was amazing the vast variety of products Sears carried back then. Everything from clothes to entire kitchen cabinets to boats. How about a reman flathead for $ 169.00? :eek:
The only area that didn't seem as appealing to me as it did when I was 14 was the womens lingerie dept. I bet I wasn't alone in getting some of my early education from those pages. :o:LOL:
Don
I like that Scrambler, 1.33 hp per cu. in.! Oooo weeeee! If I remember correctly those were made by Puch and rebranded Allstate.
Though Pops, my first thought was "14 yr old"............hmmm wouldn't that be 1859?.....................:LOL:
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Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter
Yep, the Sears catalogs from my youth actually had mules, flintlocks, and slaves for sale. :eek::p
I bet some of those old Sears scooters and motorbikes are worth a good penny now. I owned a Montgomery Ward 250 motorcycle and it was made by Bennelli, so Puch could have built the ones for Sears.
Don
What was really different about those times was that you could mail order a pistol. Then the crazies like Lee Harvey Oswald put an end to that practice. (Not that Lee used a pistol, but just that things tightened up much more after JFK)
Don
For some of the younger or foreign folk not familiar with Sears private brand name origins, they have a page for that: http://www.searsarchives.com/brands/index.htm
Don: Not sure if your catalog is old enough or not but Sears used to sell Kit Houses. I have worked on a few of them here in MI. Realy good materials for the time.. The windows didn't have counter weights but had dowls in the side of the sash and matching holes in the frame to hold them open.
No Charlie, no homes in this catalog, but I do sort of remember seeing those kits. In fact, I think I saw an actual home, the guy told me something like it showed up on a big truck and they built it up from there. But it was so long ago the details are fuzzy. Sears also had farm catalogs and ones like that, so the homes may have been in a separate catalog from the main one.
I remember when I was a kid it was a big deal when the new Sears catalog would come in the mail. I was surprised to see some show up on Ebay, most of them met a terrible fate in the outhouse. :eek::LOL: (Some things about the good old days weren't actually so good! :o)
Don
seeing that were on old Sears stuff are old house before they tore it down .there was a old very small iron pot stove must of burned coal in it ? was by the old coal room . i all ways was looking at it when i as a kid had the world casted in the lid . we moved out 37 years ago they said we could go in and there it was that small stove ? water heater ? two pipes going in it ? i pick it up it was still sitting were it been sitting over 40+ years .any one see any thing like this ?
Pat, we had something like that in our basement when I was a kid. It was a little pot belly stove with water pipes going into it, and a galvanized water tank next to it. Every morning my Dad would have to go down, open the little door on the front, and add coal so we would have hot water to bath with. It was about 3 feet high, as I recall, and pot bellly shaped. I had forgotten all about that one. :)
Don
Saw that the CEO of sears said heads are gonna roll---is this just over your jack?
Ya' kinda' hate to see personnel get "jacked" around like that . :whacked:
I doubt it, Jack. The way things are at Sears these days they are probably going to get rid of some people they found out who were giving good customer service. :rolleyes: Can't have those kinds of trouble makers around, ya know. :DQuote:
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Don
my grandparents had a Coldspot stand up freezer they bought new in 1959. it ran until 2005 when they finally unplugged it because the bottom had rusted out completly from sitting in the damp basement.
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My house is a Sears house, built in 1923. Very well built for the time.
Yep a lot of the 1910's-1920's homes were Craftsman right from the catalog. Lots of beautiful built-in hard wood features back then. The fact that they still stand are are all over the place not to mention sought after is a testament to the old Sears company! They styling back then is timeless!
This makes me very unhappy to hear this. I've also had a similar experience in returning hand tools. Sears isn't very pleasant when I bring in my tools for replacement.
My Snap-on man still comes around every other Wedensday.... Haven't been in a Sears store for 10 years or so, doesn't sound like there's any reason to go.....
The main problem for sears is all the good people that take advantage of the return policy. Like everything else today, to many looking for a way around paying their own way in life . I could insert Unions here but I will refrain.
I was a witness to a clown that would get a law mower in the beginning of spring and bring it back in the fall, used the damn thing all summer. It was the norm here in Ga with the local hicks. That is what you have today irresponsible low life's gaming the system. So I do not blame the Sears of the world it is your neighbor that is the reason..
People steal and a store cannot stay in business and pay the employees loosing money. So if you steal it will come back no one gets away with it, problem is the rest of us suffer for the thief's bad habits . I do not know bout anyone else but I have never seen a thief ever have anything nice, they are alway broke down and their stuff is always crap.
rant over
I didn't know they had Sears stores in Ga or Earth,US