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[Bambooflyguy]

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.

Ben Paris….now there’s one from the past! When I was a kid, my dad would take me to the Seattle Totems hockey game, and before we’d eat at Ben Paris. I remember seeing the world record commercially caught King Salmon mounted on the wall…..126.5 pounds! Scared the crap outta me!
We’re gonna need a bigger boat dad……

 

[chrome/22]

I remember some big trout swimming around in a pond @ Ben Paris

 

[JLT]

I still wear a 1950’s Sears-Roebuck pea coat that I got at a vintage shop 25 years ago. They sure don’t make em like they used to.

 

[Sam Roffe]

I remember some big trout swimming around in a pond @ Ben Paris

Wish I experienced Ben Paris.

 

[chrome/22]

Wish I experienced Ben Paris.

This place probably deserves its own thread


Agree, it would have been a cool place to hang out.

Looks like it was designed to drain a sporting guys paycheck as they would cash them there....

Restaurant & bar, pool tables guns and ammo fishing gear. Even a barber shop!

Think I was at the very end of it and I was just a little guy. I'll link some pictures of the place I pulled off in interwebs

2014-06-28 Ben Paris | Flickr https://share.google/oQ4EVS27SpwmfL10o

 

[JimTravers¤£a!!Travers]

Now its all just these INTERNET BASED SERVUCES!!! No time to shop. No time to BROWSE the items!! All just these INTERBET BASED SERVICES. only way to go is to hire out big to the programmer groups on craigslst offerin to de-wire the home. These guys will wire y'up into THEIR robust platform services.

 

[albula]

From the stuff you probably didn't know file.

You know Sears for catalogs. In 1955, 192 families in Udall, Kansas knew it for a house that came in a box.May 25, 1955. 10:35 PM. F5 tornado. 1,300 yards wide. 80 dead. 270 injured. The town was erased. 192 homes gone. Just foundations.Sears had been selling "Honor Bilt" kit homes since 1908. 70,000 sold. You picked it from a catalog. It came on a train. 30,000 pieces. Nails included. You built it.General Robert E. Wood, head of Sears, saw the news. He didn’t send money. He sent houses.He called the Kansas City plant. "How many Modern Home No. 264B kits do we have?" Answer: 60. "Ship them. Tonight. No invoice."The catch: A kit home took 400 man-hours to build. The town had no men. They were dead, injured, or digging out.So Sears sent carpenters. 200 of them. From stores in 6 states. They showed up in Sears trucks. With tool belts. On salary. "You’re still on the clock," Wood told them. "Until they have roofs."They worked 18-hour days. Heat of June. No power. No water. The carpenters lived in tents. They built 60 homes in 11 weeks. Gave them to widows first. No mortgage. No paperwork. Just keys.Clara Mendez, 33, lost her husband and 2 sons. She got House #14. She lived there until 2003. When she died, her daughter found a Sears catalog in the attic. Inside: a note from the foreman, dated 1955. "Mrs. Mendez - This house is paid for. By people you never met. Raise hell in it."Sears never ran an ad. They lost $430,000. Wood was asked why. He said, "We sold them the American Dream for 50 years. Seemed fair to give it back once."That’s how a brand was built — by shipping 30,000 pieces of hope on a train and paying men to swing hammers for strangers.

 

[Greg Armstrong]

Wish I experienced Ben Paris.

Here you go... from the good 'ol days;

 

[Greg Armstrong]

From the stuff you probably didn't know file.

You know Sears for catalogs. In 1955, 192 families in Udall, Kansas knew it for a house that came in a box.May 25, 1955. 10:35 PM. F5 tornado. 1,300 yards wide. 80 dead. 270 injured. The town was erased. 192 homes gone. Just foundations.Sears had been selling "Honor Bilt" kit homes since 1908. 70,000 sold. You picked it from a catalog. It came on a train. 30,000 pieces. Nails included. You built it.General Robert E. Wood, head of Sears, saw the news. He didn’t send money. He sent houses.He called the Kansas City plant. "How many Modern Home No. 264B kits do we have?" Answer: 60. "Ship them. Tonight. No invoice."The catch: A kit home took 400 man-hours to build. The town had no men. They were dead, injured, or digging out.So Sears sent carpenters. 200 of them. From stores in 6 states. They showed up in Sears trucks. With tool belts. On salary. "You’re still on the clock," Wood told them. "Until they have roofs."They worked 18-hour days. Heat of June. No power. No water. The carpenters lived in tents. They built 60 homes in 11 weeks. Gave them to widows first. No mortgage. No paperwork. Just keys.Clara Mendez, 33, lost her husband and 2 sons. She got House #14. She lived there until 2003. When she died, her daughter found a Sears catalog in the attic. Inside: a note from the foreman, dated 1955. "Mrs. Mendez - This house is paid for. By people you never met. Raise hell in it."Sears never ran an ad. They lost $430,000. Wood was asked why. He said, "We sold them the American Dream for 50 years. Seemed fair to give it back once."That’s how a brand was built — by shipping 30,000 pieces of hope on a train and paying men to swing hammers for strangers.

You're right, I was not aware. Thanks for sharing this.

 

[509]

Here you go... from the good 'ol days;


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from the 1952 Hunting and Fishing Guide......the good old days were not that good unless you lived in King County.

Chopaka Lake.....Road impassable for cars. Fish apparently freeze out in cold winters as no fish hve been caught recently although stocked several times.

Moccasin Lake....No fishing now. Shiners have taken over.

Jamieson Lake....Conflicting reports have finally been settled to the effect that there are no fish in this lake.

Duck hunting.......Ducks are scarce in Grant County.

No mention of Lenice, and lots of other lakes.

However, for King County....The number of fishing resorts in King County was off the charts.

Chinese pheasants....All farming areas around Enumclaw, back of Kent, White River, Sammamish and Snoqualmie valleys are stocked each year.

Green Lake...............Reports indicate that the trout are going to be "whoppers".

Mason Lake.............Fish to two and half pounds.

Myrtle Lake.............some lunkers to 27 inches.

The pictures of the salt water fishing are amazing. I don't fish west of the divide, but in 1952 I would have driven over the pass for those fish.

The good old days, were great in King County for hunting and fishing. East of the divide not so good until the water showed up later in the 1950's and 1960's.

 

[SculpinSwinger]

Camping in Alaska with Sir Edmund Hillary, a Sears camping promotion.

 

[Matt B]

Camping in Alaska with Sir Edmund Hillary, a Sears camping promotion.

Ahh…summer camping in Alaska, with nary a mosquito, black fly, or nosy bear in sight! Those must’ve been the days.

 

[Mossback]