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Chicago’s famous Garrett Popcorn makes a landing at Reagan National

By Jeff Clabaugh

WASHINGTON — It’s long been a welcome treat for weary travelers at Chicago O’Hare — and now, Garrett Popcorn has opened a kiosk in D.C. at Reagan National Airport. Garrett Popcorn Shop recently opened a stand in the airport’s National Hall, before the security checkpoint near Terminal C. It’s the second D.C.-area endeavor for the Chicago-based gourmet popcorn maker, after a recently opened popcorn boutique at Fashion Centre Pentagon City.

  Most of Garrett’s U.S. locations are in Chicago, although the company also has locations in Las Vegas, Dallas Fort Worth Airport and in malls near Detroit and Atlanta. It also has more than two dozen locations in Asia and the Middle East. The Reagan National kiosk features petite tins of popcorn with D.C.-specific designs, including the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Garrett Popcorn is a family-owned business that opened its first handmade popcorn store at 10 West Madison Street in Chicago in 1949.

America 250: How people ordered their ready-to-assemble homes from a catalog

By Linh Bui
For decades, Americans could browse a catalog, choose a home and order it by mail. Sears, Roebuck and Company was a prominent manufacturer of mail-order homes. The company sold about 70,000 to 75,000 homes from 1908 to 1940, according to the Sears Archives. Its catalogs offered more than 400 different house styles and the listed prices could range from around $200 to $6,000. Customers even had the option of designing their own home and submitting the blueprint to Sears.
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