When I was overseas in the Navy in the mid 1960s,the Sears and Monkey Wards catalogs were our best friends. Our PX was small, and the local markets were very limited. We had to order almost everything and wait about 3 months for the stuff to arrive. It was all shipped by surface vessel in those days.
I had an aunt that lived in one of those Sears houses. Pretty decent structure for the money. A lot of that depended on who assembled it on site. They weren't panelized or pre-assembled parts but just a load of pre-cut lumber and a set of plans to put it together.
Myron
