Catalogue Shopping

Well I, Sweet William The Scot, read that some of you do Catalogue Shopping.

I think every dog in the States knows about Sears and Roebuck catalogues.

Why Lee remembers as a child the one that came at holiday time filled to the brim with dreams.

Well darn would you ever buy a house from a catalogue.  I mean a real house.

Yep in their catalogue they use to sell houses.  You would see their picture floor plan and description.

Pay your money and shipped by railroad boxcar and then usually trucked to a home site.

Sears Home kit had approximately 25 tons of materials, with over 30,000 parts.

Why Easy folks could do that!  Easy Peasy like a puzzle.

From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 - 75,000 homes through their mail-order program.   Sears designed 447 different housing styles from elegant big homes to cottages. You could get indoor plumbing or an outhouse.   A house to suit individual tastes and budgets.

Well here is the house from the design above.

Cincinnati has around four hundred Sears homes of all different styles.  More than most cities

Sears helped popularize the latest technology available to modern home buyers in the early part of the twentieth century.

We found two Crescent homes in Nati City.

These home garner more money because of their history.
This home was built in 1922.
This is an eight room house with a solarium.

Why this Crescent Home now serves as the home of the Madeira Historical Society Museum.

This sunken garden in the back was once a pond where the owners kept an alligator.
Sears sold everything!
And do you know what Lee says she got her training bra from Sears to train her puppies.
What the devil!

Thanks for being a friend
Traveling down the road and back again
Your heart is true and your a friend of  mine

Signing Off 
Sweet William The Scot

I mailed out a few Easter Boxes.  Hope my friends got them for Easter.