Before there were roads connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific and Mexico to Alaska, you could buy goods delivered via railroad freight and/or the U.S. mail. This was more than a century before the Internet, all courtesy of the mail-order catalogs of the Montgomery Ward and Sears & Roebuck companies. It was the Amazon of yesteryear.
By Tom Morrow
If you grew up during the thirties and forties, chances are you lived in a mail-order house sold and delivered via rail from Sears, Roebuck & Co., in Chicago.
From 1908 to1940, Sears,...
Carlsbad CA— Yesterday afternoon, August 11 at 5:44 p.m., the Carlsbad Police Department was called to Sears located in the Shoppes at Carlsbad shopping center, 2561 El Camino Real regarding a person...
