SFR Sears, Roebuck and Co

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RCF said:
I used to go hunting with my Sears shotgun for ducks and pheasants where Southcenter is currently located. Originally, developers wanted to build Southcenter Mall where GovMart was located. Burien did not allow 2 story buildings above ground so that put the kabash on that idea.
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I have my dad's old Ranger pump action 22. I understand it was a brand name from Sears.
 
I have an 11ft Sears jon boat that I use on the lakes that I can drive into. It's beat up, but the fish don't care. It's hard to justify replacing because it's so light I can easily throw it around by myself and it can easily fit 2 adults or me plus my 2 boys. Best $150 I ever spent.

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Merle said:
Growing up I wore them, and at the time hated them because they weren’t “cool” like what some other richer kids wore.

But now I would love to have a pair as work outside pants because they had that super-reinforced knee area. I always wear out the knees of my work jeans from gardening, firewood cutting etc…

I looked online to see if anything like them was available but no luck.
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Some of the Carhartts are similarly reinforced and crazy stiff so as to be questionable if it’s worth it.
 
I hated the burgundy colored tough skin “husky” pants my mom always bought me. I still hate husky stuff.

BTW- not Sears, but the JC Penny mother store is still open and running in Kemmerer, Wyoming. It’s a fun stop to go in and get a shirt or pair of pants in the original JC Penny store.
 
Sears even had a line of fly gear.

The line was labeled “X-pert” and included line dressing for silk fly lines (in a tin similar to Mucilin), bamboo fly rods, and varnish for the rod. I used to have an X-pert fly reel that was a beauty. It even had a genuine agate line guard and it looked similar to the old Hardy St, George reel, although the quality was not quite up there. I’m pretty sure Ocean City mfg. made the reels for Sears. Wish I could find my photos of them.
 
JC Higgins was the Sears brand reel name...later Ted Williams was the brand.
 
Sears was still going pretty strong when I got out of college and bought my first house in the early 2000s, at least in the Upper Midwest. The house needed a ton of work, so I got to be a very good customer of the tool and appliance departments of the local Sears store.

The paper mill that my dad worked at made the paper for Sears catalogs, at least in the 1980s-2000s. It was also the first mill that I worked in and where I decided that I wanted to do it for a career. I don't know if they made it back in the days when a Sears catalog was common in outhouses, before toilet tissue became widely available and affordable!
 
Greg Armstrong said:
The X-pert brand name was earlier, used by Sears in the pre-war years (the big one). Ted Williams branding began in the’60’s.
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Before my time...
Higgins was early 60's, then Ted came on later in the 60's I think.

I wanted a reel like my Dad's, a Higgins, but by then it was Williams, I was 10...
 
Mossback said:
Before my time...
Higgins was early 60's, then Ted came on later in the 60's I think.

I wanted a reel like my Dad's, a Higgins, but by then it was Williams, I was 10...
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It was before my time too, but for the last twenty years or so when I fish (not often enough anymore) it’s most often with pre-war gear. It’s kept my interest up, and is flat fun catching fish on old gear, some of which is a century old.

I bet if you wanted to and you searched for it, you’d find a Sears JC Higgins reel like your Dad used to use. Might be fun to catch a fish on it.
 
Greg Armstrong said:
Sears even had a line of fly gear.

The line was labeled “X-pert” and included line dressing for silk fly lines (in a tin similar to Mucilin), bamboo fly rods, and varnish for the rod. I used to have an X-pert fly reel that was a beauty. It even had a genuine agate line guard and it looked similar to the old Hardy St, George reel, although the quality was not quite up there. I’m pretty sure Ocean City mfg. made the reels for Sears. Wish I could find my photos of them.
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Here’s mine Greg…..the Ocean City Viscoy is very similar but it’s a silent drag. I must have almost one of every vintage fly reel…..

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I remember going to the candy counter of the "SoDo" (🙄) Sears in the 70's with either parents or grandparents every time they went to the store. The Swedish Fish were the best.
 
Joe H said:
Still have gramp's Ted Willams tackle box with a couple of Ocean City made reels.
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Funny now that I think about it but Dad didn't that much in Sears branded fishing gear.

He must have got his at Warshalls or Ben Paris.
 
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