MacLir
November 13, 2017, 11:45pm
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Doubtful.
Hiawatha was Native American, and roebucks are European. So far as I know they were never introduced to North America.
Powers
November 14, 2017, 7:08pm
23
Sears sells a house brand of denim called “Roebuck & Co.”
glowacks:
I played an online game once back in the early days of the internet set at a time that Sears was a fairly young company. The game heavily implied that it was correctly called “Sear’s” by spelling it that way. However, the writer of the game was English (or at least British) and so it appears he just assumed that the ‘s’ was possessive. From that short bit of flavorful text in the game, I had assumed that’s how the company was originally named. I didn’t bother checking it against anything as it was a totally trivial point of knowledge, but now that someone else has presented information that contradicts it, I have indeed confirmed that the guy’s name was Sears, and not Sear.
Unless there was some other mail-order company around the same time called “Sear’s”, but it seems unlikely.
I have played video baseball games that renamed the General Motors fountain (now known as Chevrolet Fountain) in Detroit’s Comerica Park to “Admiral Motors” for precisely that reason, as well as removing the giant John Hancock sign from the scoreboard in Fenway Park.
