A friend of mine is convinced that there once was a Sears on Harrisburg. is he right?
Yes, there was a Sears store on the south side of Harrisburg at about the 69th Street area. Used to love to go there during the summer because it was air conditioned. Remember the store for other reasons, but, one thing I remember was the fact that they had an x-ray machine in the shoe department where you could look at your feet and see if the shoes you were getting where of the correct size or not. Of course, we very rarely got the luxury of getting new shoes but we still spent a lot of time looking at our feet through the viewing port. Folks were a bit more blaise about radiation in those days than they are now. That store was at that location for many years. It has been a long time since I remember being in that area so I have no idea what is occupying that site now. Curiously, I was looking up some other things that I remembered about the past when I came across and registered on this site. That Sears store is just one of many things in the East End that I have memories of. So much of the knowledge of the past history of that area is slowly being lost as the folks who lived there in times past fade from existence. Wander over to the Forest Park Cemetery and think about what some of those folks buried there could tell you about the history of Magnolia Park and the rest of the East End.
Sears At 6550 Harrisburg Blvd.
in Historic Houston
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Yes, there was a Sears store on the south side of Harrisburg at about the 69th Street area. Used to love to go there during the summer because it was air conditioned. Remember the store for other reasons, but, one thing I remember was the fact that they had an x-ray machine in the shoe department where you could look at your feet and see if the shoes you were getting where of the correct size or not. Of course, we very rarely got the luxury of getting new shoes but we still spent a lot of time looking at our feet through the viewing port. Folks were a bit more blaise about radiation in those days than they are now. That store was at that location for many years. It has been a long time since I remember being in that area so I have no idea what is occupying that site now. Curiously, I was looking up some other things that I remembered about the past when I came across and registered on this site. That Sears store is just one of many things in the East End that I have memories of. So much of the knowledge of the past history of that area is slowly being lost as the folks who lived there in times past fade from existence. Wander over to the Forest Park Cemetery and think about what some of those folks buried there could tell you about the history of Magnolia Park and the rest of the East End.