WDBJ7 Archive: Remembering Sears Town

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Sears Roebuck was once one of the nation’s leading retailers.

Currently, just a handful of Sears stores remain open across the country, and news reports suggest they might not last much longer.

With this week’s look into the WDBJ7 Archive, we visit Sears Town, which began to take shape in Roanoke in the spring of 1956…

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