Sears was one of the coolest stores when I was a kid.  I remember when I was 4 we took the bus on an adventure to the only one in town on Christmas Eve.  Sadly it closed early and we didn’t get to go inside.  It was the biggest store I ever shopped at and had a fancy escalator.  It closed in 1986.  Another part of my Christmas tradition was watching the Peanuts Christmas special and perusing the Sears Christmas catalog.  It was filled with pages of awesome toys.  The train sets and the remote control race cars attracted me most.  When they stopped publishing their catalog I knew Sears…