There are plenty of decades-old Sears catalogs, employee pins and vintage items for sale on eBay. In the wake of the company’s bankruptcy filing earlier this week, plenty of people are sellin… ...

Sweet went back to the Sears catalogs of the 1970s, so I decided to as well, through the engrossing wishbookweb.com. And it's remarkable: it's not so freaking pink.

The Sears catalog is a history of the culture since the 1890s, including this 1970s fashion ad, showing some groovy bell bottom pants.

In the 1970s, I grew up down the street from the headquarters of the Sears Catalog. It was Sears’s “Big Book” that really changed American shopping habits, even more so than the large retail ...

When my late grandmother bought her first home in the early 1970s, she paid cash for the tidy red brick bungalow with the life savings that she had earned working as a packer in the catalog ...