MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio — The demolition of the massive former Sears building in Middleburg Heights has sparked nostalgia and wide interest on social media, after striking drone images captured the once-iconic store being reduced to rubble.

Photographer and videographer Rob Biehl of Propped Productions documented the demolition from above, sharing dramatic photos and video that quickly spread across Facebook.

“I knew it would resonate with a decent number of people, and it has,” Biehl said. “Sears was something I grew up remembering — a big fat catalog around Christmas, school shopping, buying tools with my dad. It was a chapter in American history.”

The hulking building, which opened in 1964, served as more than just a retail store. Its cavernous basement once housed hundreds of em

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