Год выпуска: 2006 Автор: John Oharenko, The Homan Arthington Foundation Издательство: Страниц: 128 ISBN: 0738539775
Описание
Located on the site of the original Sears Tower, the historic Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog plant is one of the nation's most unique landmarks. Representing American ingenuity at its best, Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald combined technology, commrce, and social science with bricks and mortar to build ?the World's Largest Store? on Chicago's West Side. Completed in 1906, the plant housed nearly every conceivable product of the time: clothing, jewelry, furniture, appliances, tools, and moe. The complex employed 20,000 people, and merchandise orders were processed and delivered by rail?within the same day. During the first two decades of the 20th century, almost half of America's families shopped the over 300 million catalogs publishe in that era. WLS (World's Largest Store) Radio broadcasted the Gene Autrey show from the top of the tower, and the first Sears retail store opened here on Homan Avenue and Arthington Street. In 1974, Sears moved to the current Sears...
