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Nutone “Chimette” Table Dinner Chimes Dinner chimes were a forerunner and contemporary of door chimes, and are still in use today. They were commonly used… Read More »Nutone Dinner Chime

Chimes vs Doorbells The premise that a doorbell made noise and a door chime was pleasant to the ears was quite the hot topic in… Read More »Doorbells vs Chimes

The Bell Tolls for Sears Door Chimes In the Fall of 1977 Sears introduced an 8-note Electric Resonator Chime supplied by Rittenhouse. This was followed… Read More »Sears Last Doorbells

A Doorbell Renaissance at Sears with Rittenhouse The Sears 1964 catalogs were a bit of a door chime renaissance at Sears. The Fall 1964 Big-Book… Read More »Doorbell Renaissance

New Materials and a New Brand of Doorbells at Sears After enduring a lengthy depression and the austerity of a total war effort, 1950s America… Read More »Plastic

Sears’ Doorbells Ring-In Post War Prosperity Following the War, America was optimistic. Returning service men started families in record numbers. Suburbs with millions of new… Read More »Postwar

Sears’ brief Silvertone Era 1940-1941 With an America in economic recovery, Sears expanded their line of door chimes for the new decade. The 1940 Spring… Read More »The Silvertone Era

Early Door Chimes at Sears the 1930s The depression era market for doorbells fell precipitously along with the steep drop in construction. U.S. housing starts… Read More »Sears First Door Chimes

The History of Doorbells in Sears Catalogs 1896 to 1993 Sears Catalogs were the “internet superstore” for much of the last century. Sears’ “Big Book”… Read More »Historic Sears Doorbells