The Plague has overtaken me but in between 11 hour workdays, sleeping and mindless staring I did manage to hit some estate sales. Trifling artifacts and ephemera matter just as much as the big find objects. At least to me they do. Sears was everywhere in the last century up until the 1980s or so when Roebuck and Co. hit the outs with American consumers. Their market share dwindled and even a merge with a former competitor and thrift giant K-Mart couldn't propel them to former greatness. K-Mart has totally gone bust and Sears lingers on somehow, scraping by on their famed past. Personally, I think they should re-launch their Winner II shoe brand with an updated style and they could probably get back some market share by being a discount shoe seller. I used to get mine from the Livonia Mall location at Seven Mile Road and Middlebelt and they were just as well made, if not better, than the overpriced Nike and Puma brands that everybody was going with then. Anyway, I found this r...