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Cover of 1922 Sears Modern Homes catalog. Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer.. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1]
In January 2019, to facilitate expansion into previously unserved areas, Amazon announced plans to acquire some former Sears and Kmart locations from Sears Holdings, which filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection on October 15, 2018. These vacant locations would be demolished or remodeled to create new Whole Foods Market locations.
[8] [9] [10] Accordingly, the building's name was duly changed from the SoDo Center to the Starbucks Center. [9] The building underwent significant renovation following severe damage caused by the 2001 Nisqually earthquake. The Sears department store closed in June 2014 along with its nearby Sears Auto Center.
Map showing Maine's 207 area code (in red) and neighboring area codes in New Hampshire (USA); New Brunswick and Quebec, (Canada). Area code 207 is the sole telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Maine.
By the 1820s the area was Portland's second seaport via the Back Cove’s ship channel. Much of the debris from the great Portland fire of 1866 was deposited into Back Cove, significantly increasing the size of Bayside and East Bayside. Maps produced around 1900 show an extension of the shoreline out to Marginal Way and beyond.
From 2000 until the host's retirement in 2019, the News Center Maine stations aired human interest and outdoors program Bill Green's Maine; Green had gotten his start at WLBZ before moving to Portland and WCSH in 1981. [43] [44] [45] WCSH debuted 207, a weeknight lifestyle and entertainment magazine aired weeknights at 7 p.m., in 2003.
The bay was the site of a humiliating American defeat during the Revolutionary War.In 1779 a Continental Navy flotilla consisting of 19 warships and 25 support vessels was dispatched on July 24 to recapture the mid-coast of Maine from the British who had captured part of the territory and constructed fortifications near the bay, naming the newly captured territory New Ireland.
Grand Lake Stream is a plantation in Washington County, Maine, United States.The population was 125 at the 2020 census. [1]The town Grand Lake Stream is named after the stream that flows through it, which is notable for its excellent landlocked salmon fishery and a fishing tradition that dates to the middle of the 19th century. [2]