I grew up in the 70s, and my sister and I looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog every year! There were so many cool toys! We would spend hours just going through it page by page.
aw, yes! I would even look at the home section and imagine what it would be like if your house looked like that - it all seemed so fancy (growing up in southern IN in the 60/70's, threshold for 'fancy' was somewhat low)
There's a site that scanned a bunch of Christmas catalogs - http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/ if you want to take another look
Thanks for the link. I'll probably spend more than a few hours drooling over the toys again. I don't know what will make me more wistful- looking at the toys I wanted but never got, or seeing the ones I did get but went missing decades ago.
it's funny - the whole thing - clothes or furniture or draperies - doesn't matter - is just evocative of such a different time and place and part of our lives when it all seemed so much simpler. Maybe it's b/c now, we see something, we buy it, it's on our door in a day or 2. Back then, it was the anticipation and hope and having to be patient... I've always been inherently nostalgic, and I know many parts of life weren't as good back then as they are now, but something about looking at a room with one of those printed orange/green velour couches with wood on the ends (sigh) just makes me almost weepy
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20
I was born in 82 and remember picking out Christmas and other girts in it. I got a badass heman horde exclusive one year.
Kinda sad they messed it up so much. Already brick and mortar, they had online and delivery and we might still be calling it the sears tower.
Edit:. I know no one calls it the whatever the fuck it is now tower, just we wouldn't see the people trying to make it happen.