In 1927, when Chicago-based Sears, Roebuck and Company decided to expand and build retail stores in Cleveland, it picked Carnegie Avenue as the location for its main store. The Sears store opened at 8501 Carnegie Avenue on August 4, 1928. (A branch store was opened that same year on Lorain Avenue near West 117th Street.) The Carnegie Avenue store closed in 1980 and the building later became part of the Cleveland Play House complex. The complex was purchased by the Cleveland Clinic in 2009. The old Sears store, as of 2020, is still standing. This photograph of the store was taken in 1941. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
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Cleveland Public Library, Photograph Collection
"The first Sears, Roebuck Store" appears in: Carnegie Avenue
