For those old enough to remember the Sears Christmas catalog, the holiday season did not start until you leafed through the giant booklet featuring pages and pages of shiny new clothes and toys. The ...

Sears launched its first Christmas Wishbook catalog since 2011 this year. To take a look back at holiday catalogs since they began in 1933, the Tribune visited the Sears catalog archives in Hoffman ...

The Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Christmas Catalog was the first indication for Tustin children that Christmas was coming when I was a youngster. We spent hours on the floor or our beds perusing the pages ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, some versions of those catalogs — possibly including an alleged 1956 Sears Christmas book featured in popular ...

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 ...

As a child and into my teenage years, a singular event announced that Christmas was comin’. That was on the day in early November each year when I went to the mailbox and discovered that the Sears ...