Remember when Sears ....
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Yuppers, I remember. I'm in Philly and we had a place on Whitaker and the Roosevelt BLVD, it was called "The Sears Tower." When I was a kid we actually went to The Sears Tower almost every Sunday and made a whole day of it! The largest collection of bikes anywhere! It was great! I'm pretty sure it was the biggest Sears in Philly or even Pennsylvania! Its been gone for years now, big fire. (do you smell that? smells like an insurance job burning down) Now its a.....take a wild guess.....thats right! a WalMart! :lol:
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I know it's sad isn't it? The world is being sold to china. Why do you think my favorite place to buy a bike is my local scrapyard?
I remember when you first walked in our sears "as a kid in 1969 " was the candy and peanut display.hopefully I got to get something then it was downstairs to the basement where the electronics, records, sporting goods and bicycles was. How I wish to be 7 again. Ed
oh yeah!kickback said:
i think they had heat lamps that kept the nuts warm,so you could smell them all through the store. love me some cashews! :lol:
I haven't been in Sears in like 10 years...even the tools aren't in reach anymore...i can remember as a kid going downstairs...or better yet...growing up "rural" in the country and getting that Christmas catalog...and getting to pick 1 really cool thing..and then having to drive like 25 miles to the "catalog" store to "order" it...hoping that the funny smelling old guy got your order right...before he put his cigarette out... :shock:
These were all in Jacksonville Fl where I was born & lived through around 1988 before moving to West Palm & surrounding areas
I remember going to KMart, Lionel's Playworld and many more and I'm not sure but my Grandma could have taken me to Sears.
We had a Zayre's but I never saw one anywhere else, I got a Dukes Of Hazzard watch from that store but I lost it in the mud behind my house and a few years later it was paved over for a parking lot or I think it was a Post Office.
We also had a Pick N Save that had bikes and after all of the stores I mentioned I loved going to DQ because they had a both to watch cartoons like Woody Woodpecker & Chilly Willy or Mcdonalds that had the kids section with the big tree seat that I always tried to sit at.
I remember going to KMart, Lionel's Playworld and many more and I'm not sure but my Grandma could have taken me to Sears.
We had a Zayre's but I never saw one anywhere else, I got a Dukes Of Hazzard watch from that store but I lost it in the mud behind my house and a few years later it was paved over for a parking lot or I think it was a Post Office.
We also had a Pick N Save that had bikes and after all of the stores I mentioned I loved going to DQ because they had a both to watch cartoons like Woody Woodpecker & Chilly Willy or Mcdonalds that had the kids section with the big tree seat that I always tried to sit at.
Yea, the peanut and candy display! They had those peanut butter thingys that really put out the aroma in the store and the display was within six feet of the main entrance. I remember when they sold Allstate motorcycles and scooters. Thanks!!!
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That's why we are here, to save ourselves and our kids from modern pre-packaged department store life and bicycles that are built from recycled soda cans, assembled by high school dropouts that have never ridden a bike and don't care too, and give this world something to envy. Something they can't buy, the bike makers try to copy our style but never get it quite right, for we are the only makers of true rat rod bikes!
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Old Sears was great but new Sears...not so much.
outskirtscustoms said:
I totally agree not a Sears fan. We somtimes park by Sears at our local Mall just to have faster access to the part of the Mall that we're headed .That being said if I'm in a store and it has bikes color me there ! Just like W/mart !
I did a historic houses tour in Chagrin OH. and one of the nicest houses we saw was a Sears kit homekingsting said:There was a time when you could buy almost anything from Sears. Even a car or a house!
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Newer Sears bike = Walmart bike with 10% price markup. :roll:
Sears & Kmart have the same bikes but not Walmart although Sears does have a few Exclusive bikes that they don't sell at Kmart, on Sears site they have a nice Schwinn Men's & Women's with a springer fork.
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1260 ... Bikesmv=rr
http://www.sears.com/schwinn-drifter-26 ... ockType=G2
I still like department store bikes but I like almost all bikes, my sister got one of those purple OP bikes a few years ago and it was a great bike which didn't need anything done to it.
A few weeks ago I got one of those cheap XGames mountain bikes mainly for parts but the person who had it really used the bike a lot with all the dirt I had to clean from the frame as well as dead grass wrapped around the front & rear sprockets.
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1260 ... Bikesmv=rr
http://www.sears.com/schwinn-drifter-26 ... ockType=G2
I still like department store bikes but I like almost all bikes, my sister got one of those purple OP bikes a few years ago and it was a great bike which didn't need anything done to it.
A few weeks ago I got one of those cheap XGames mountain bikes mainly for parts but the person who had it really used the bike a lot with all the dirt I had to clean from the frame as well as dead grass wrapped around the front & rear sprockets.
