For example, see this Sears catalog from the time period ... the T-shirt as a symbol of youth culture and rebellion into the 1950s, McClendon said, resulting in tees becoming part of ...

Not until the 1950s did automatic dishwashers start becoming ... the most common toilet paper in America was probably pages torn out of the Sears catalog. Toilet paper sold on a cardboard roll ...

Between 1912 and the unraveling of racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, Rosenwald Schools played a vital role in the education of African American children living in the Jim Crow rural South. On ...

Every detail about him feels hand-picked by some omnipotent author: his soulful pre-war tinged vocals, the old beat-up jackets and baggy pants he rocks while playing his 1950’s Harmony H60 ...

From 1908 through 1943, Sears sold blueprints and building supplies ordered from a catalog. Supplies were sent ... Sag Harbor Hills in 1950, and Ninevah Beach in 1952), the three areas remain ...

The suburb of Westland, Michigan, where Mike Kelley grew up, may be one of the only cities in the US renamed after a ...

In the early 20th century, the most common toilet paper in America was probably pages torn out of the Sears catalog. Toilet paper sold on a ... and that's how Charmin got its name. In the 1950s, the ...

In 1925, Sears opened a test retail store on the first floor of its Chicago mail-order plant. By the end of 1925, seven more stores opened. Three years later, Wood became the the president of Sears.

Even in this day and age, with the ability to order something online and have it delivered quickly, it would seem quite odd ...

With Norman’s, Sears, Pushins, and Woolworth’s department stores on Fountain Square, Downtown was the place to be. Bowling ...