Ryan Forbes has collected six Sears holiday catalogs. While he has a few from his childhood, he’s also managed to find others at garage sales and online.

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase.

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase.

As recently as 1953, new-car shoppers could avoid dealerships by ordering directly from their Sears catalog or nearest retail outlet. Named after the insurance company that owned the department ...

For more than a decade, Sears has been shutting down its stores, one by one by one. But old and devoted customers remember what once was. A cover of the old Sears catalog.

Sears, Roebuck and Co., Middle America's department store, yesterday agreed to buy Lands' End Inc., the country's largest catalogue and online clothing retailer. For $1.9 billion in cash, Sears is ...

When Sears Was a Retail Star, Not Losing $1B in Six Months The department store was formerly famous for its catalog and high-end offerings.

WGN Radio’s Dave Plier talks to former WGN newsman Roger Badesch about the return of holiday catalogs, inspired by the old Sears Wish Book. Plus, Dave & Roger take a look back at stores we shopped ...