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Sears, Roebuck & Co. A name that will surely echo throughout American business forever; of course, such a storied department store chain would dip its toe into the video game market, and we all know of Sears Tele-Games, their rebranded Atari line. But now Atari, despite their new Video Computer System, has released a new standalone console, and Sears has dutifully followed. Why is Atari having regrets?
This blog post was due to be published in 1978. However, due to Nicole not being born yet at the time, or even her parents having met, it was shelved. We now republish it today. Close enough.
What happened to Kmart s art collection?
BLOOMBERG NEWS
Two Kmart emplyees look over a tapestry by Pablo Picasso during a preview of items to be auctioned from the Kmart corporate art collection at their former headquarters in Troy, Michigan, Friday, June 16, 2006. Kmart was founded as S.S. Kresge in Detroit in 1899. Photographer: Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg News
Amy Elliott Bragg is special projects editor for Crain’s Detroit Business.
Shopping at a Kmart store was never a transcendent aesthetic experience, but visiting its corporate headquarters might have been (whether you love the imposing modernism of the 1969 building, as I do, or hate it, as Martha Stewart does). Kmart Holding Corp. s offices in Troy once housed a massive collection of art much of it by 20th-century masters including Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Joan Miró and Andy Warhol that was auctioned off starting on June 16, 2006, following the merger of Kmart Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 2004 and relocation of
GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. Jacques Bajer, a one-time Ford Motor Co. engineer specializing in tires and founder and president of Tire Systems Engineering Inc., died May 7 at age 91.
Known for his work on the development of uniformity standards and OE specifications for tires, wheels and…