railfancwb Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Enjoy the memories… https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ https://mymerrychristmas.com/history-of-christmas-catalogs/ https://thecollectionbyeleni.com/product-category/wishbooks/ 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 The Sears wish book drove the mall-santa into extinction. Spend weeks poring over it, circle stuff with a magic marker, dogear the pages and give it back to Mom. She'll tell Santa, or however that works. Since you didn't have to physically go see Santa, the mall's black-friday-season took a direct hit, leading to their ultimate demise. The malls and Santa are racist now, anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I don't remember when Sears started using a single token black model in their catalogs. But farmer-america didn't like it, which led to their ultimate demise. Sears would surely be racist, now, if they still existed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 SPOILER: There ain't no Santa Claus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPTim Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 I miss the old catalogs, all of them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 And actually handing the wish book back to Mom, so she had to go through it, led to getting a bunch of Brady Bunch fashion clothing for Christmas. Brady Bunch fashion clothing led to more deserved ass-kickings, than anything else a kid could do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 24 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: Brady Bunch fashion clothing led to more deserved ass-kickings, than anything else a kid could do. My mom made me invite all my friends over to have punch and cookies and watch the Lawrence Welk Show. She was going to show us how much better her music was than Rock and Roll. They beat me up to show they loved me. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 Want some fun? Look at cool items in the catalog and calculate the cost today in inflation adjusted dollars. A 1970 25 inch console TV would cost us $4798 today. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 2 hours ago, Batesmotel said: Want some fun? Look at cool items in the catalog and calculate the cost today in inflation adjusted dollars. A 1970 25 inch console TV would cost us $4798 today. And that old TV is blown away by any $300 HDTV. Best Buy has a Samsung 50” HDTV for $380, that is amazing to me. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Biff said: And that old TV is blown away by any $300 HDTV. Best Buy has a Samsung 50” HDTV for $380, that is amazing to me. That’s only $55 in 1970 dollars. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 Fess up. Someone already looked at the underwear section. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 7 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Fess up. Someone already looked at the underwear section. http://www.songlyrics.com/the-four-lads/the-girl-on-page-44-lyrics/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted December 19, 2021 Share Posted December 19, 2021 9 hours ago, ChuteTheMall said: SPOILER: There ain't no Santa Claus. My wife knows damn well there is a Santa! I'm him!!!!!! Tonight, at Denny's I found the sister of one of the managers and gave her a pair of earrings. I told her how sorry I was to forget her and not her sister and her niece, along with the other waitresses. See! I'm Santa for a limited number of women. By the way, my wife knows I love giving jewelry to women. She's afraid that I may branch out into lingerie like what I buy for her.............. I won't push my luck. I wonder what the other customers think when we show up and the waitresses hug me and tell me I smell nice...................... MY wife just laughs, she knows I'm no real threat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fog Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Christmas specials usually didn't have a womens underwear section. It was years before I realized this because I was so distracted by the toys, tools and electronics. That might be Victorias Secret, she always ran underwear sales for every holiday and maybe she took business away from Sears and JC Penny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 Women's "underwear" was in a separate catalogue from Sears. I remember it well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aomagrat Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 I remember looking at guns in the Sears catalog. I still have 2 boxes of Ted Williams 30-30, head stamped Sears. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 The third (bottom) link in the list I supplied earlier now no longer seems related to Christmas catalogs. This one is: http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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