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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:47:59 PM EST
[#1]
Yep.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:48:21 PM EST
[#2]
I remember the Wish Book, good times.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:49:23 PM EST
[#3]
Quoted: It would come out just before Christmas and was heavy as hell. Hundreds of pages of anything a kid could possibly want. I was talking to someone tonight who didn't remember them. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:49:28 PM EST
[#4]
Camping stuff, guns, tools, toys, toughskins and the women’s underwear section.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:50:45 PM EST
[#5]
OMG! It was falling apart by Thanksgiving. We kids fought over it making/remaking our Christmas lists dozens of times,
A great memory. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:52:02 PM EST
[#6]
We had a Sears store where you could go order stuff out of the catalog have it delivered to the store they'd let you know when it was in...you go pick it up and pay for it.
We also had a Montgomery Wards catalog center that carried no merchandise just there for ordering from their catalog...local Penny's store also had a catalog center in it. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:52:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: IIRC, they were about half the size of the regular Sears catalog. Some clothing, mostly gift stuff. Lots of kids toys. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It would come out just before Christmas and was heavy as hell. Hundreds of pages of anything a kid could possibly want. I was talking to someone tonight who didn't remember them. Telescopes, microscopes, chemistry sets, all kinds of sports stuff, bicycles, roller skates, radios, it was geared just towards kids. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:53:42 PM EST
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: OMG! It was falling apart by Thanksgiving. We kids fought over it making/remaking our Christmas lists dozens of times, A great memory. I didn't remember it coming out that early but I guess you're right. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:54:49 PM EST
[#9]
I had that Sears Wish Book for toys and a US Calvary magazine from which I always wanted knives, camping equipment, and random military surplus. They had cool patches and everything.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:55:14 PM EST
[#10]
Hell yeah. I used to love circling everything I wanted and going through it with my parents.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:55:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OMG! It was falling apart by Thanksgiving. We kids fought over it making/remaking our Christmas lists dozens of times, A great memory. Happy memories indeed! 
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:55:33 PM EST
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:56:13 PM EST
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Quoted: It would come out just before Christmas and was heavy as hell. Hundreds of pages of anything a kid could possibly want. I was talking to someone tonight who didn't remember them. What a coincidence! Earlier today I was researching a Lionel train engine that I have and was looking through an electronic copy of the 1952 S&R Wishbook. Found what I think is the train set that my dad bought way back in '52. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:56:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:57:07 PM EST
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Just think - they had most of the infrastructure in place to become what Amazon is now.
In addition to printing the catalog, they could have had it online in the early 90s - click, buy, ship... They already had distribution centers in many major cities, plus the stores themselves. All but vanished now. 
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:57:42 PM EST
[#16]
My mom told me a story about a native guy from a village who ordered women's underwear from the Sears catalog and was angry because he thought he was ordering the woman model.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:57:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had a Sears store where you could go order stuff out of the catalog have it delivered to the store they'd let you know when it was in...you go pick it up and pay for it. We also had a Montgomery Wards catalog center that carried no merchandise just there for ordering from their catalog. Montgomery Wards in Flint, mother would go into the store, at the counter place the order then sent over a pneumatic device, then soon thereafter told to pick up/pay for the package at another window. Ah yes folks, times were simpler back in days of yor.... |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:58:50 PM EST
[#18]
Yes. Essentially the same size as the phone book in my area growing up.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 10:59:09 PM EST
[#19]
Sears was Amazon before the internet was a thing.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:00:33 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What a coincidence! Earlier today I was researching a Lionel train engine that I have and was looking through an electronic copy of the 1952 S&R Wishbook. Found what I think is the train set that my dad bought way back in '52. Ahh shit, is the Matrix sending out a signal? |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:03:37 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just think - they had most of the infrastructure in place to become what Amazon is now. In addition to printing the catalog, they could have had it online in the early 90s - click, buy, ship... They already had distribution centers in many major cities, plus the stores themselves. All but vanished now. Sears sold everything back in the day. Homes, cars, livestock, dresses, etc. Many people in remote regions of the country had no other way of getting the things offered in the Sears catalogs. They were Amazon 100 years before Amazon existed, they certainly fucked up by not keeping with the times.  
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:09:14 PM EST
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I remember. My brother and I would tear through it for hours. We would circle the stuff we wanted. I had a blue pen and he had a red one. Never did get that AR-7 survival rifle.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:21:38 PM EST
[#23]
I also remember running a stick around the hole before sitting down too
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:34:32 PM EST
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:34:51 PM EST
[#25]
Check out the catalogs on "wishbookweb.com" … lots of memories!
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:36:08 PM EST
[#26]
Shit yeah I do. I remember circling a lot of stuff, yet somehow that stuff did not show up come Christmas morn..,
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:38:55 PM EST
[#27]
Absolutely! You always read it from back to front. Don't know why, just did.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:39:05 PM EST
[#28]
Yep I remember them pretty vividly but you're going to pickup a lot of age groups in this post.
The wish book ran from like the 60s onto the 90s until sears went under. I remember flipping through it as a kid in the 90s. |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:44:03 PM EST
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:45:17 PM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Absolutely! You always read it from back to front. Don't know why, just did. https://starwarsblog.starwars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/vehicles.jpg The only thing I had was the X-wing. Right in the feels.... |
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:48:43 PM EST
[#31]
Absolutely.
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Posted: 7/2/2021 11:52:31 PM EST
[#32]
Yep and I remember going to the S&H Green Stamp store with my Mom.
Growing up in the 60s and 70s was awesome. |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:09:54 AM EST
[#33]
Of course I remember it. You could spend hours folding down page corners or putting a pencil asterisk next to wanted and still end up with socks though lol.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:20:09 AM EST
[#34]
It was the internet before the internet.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:23:12 AM EST
[#35]
67 y.o. Yup.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:25:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Of course I remember it. You could spend hours folding down page corners or putting a pencil asterisk next to wanted and still end up with socks though lol. Everyone got a pair of Toughskins jeans. Uncomfortable as hell but you couldn’t wear them out. |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:25:37 AM EST
[#37]
Do you mean the one with all the ladies in their underwear?
HELL YES I remember that!! |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:32:22 AM EST
[#38]
Yep, Sears and Labelle's catalogs were the best. Kids today will never know the fun we had, looking at all the cool toys around Christmas time.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:33:23 AM EST
[#39]
Spiegel's didn't airbrush out the nips.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 12:37:38 AM EST
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:00:47 AM EST
[#41]
Big part of my childhood.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:05:34 AM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My mom told me a story about a native guy from a village who ordered women's underwear from the Sears catalog and was angry because he thought he was ordering the woman model. 
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:17:37 AM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sears sold everything back in the day. Homes, cars, livestock, dresses, etc. Many people in remote regions of the country had no other way of getting the things offered in the Sears catalogs. They were Amazon 100 years before Amazon existed, they certainly fucked up by not keeping with the times. https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/attachments/15110/original/1909fall-motorbuggy.jpg?1400612240 https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AvShmTy-VaI/VuUjp7_f70I/AAAAAAACHls/VT-WSWkt-b0Q1Ncyk1pl67itqy4kYSN4w/s1600/fall1932-searshomekits.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Just think - they had most of the infrastructure in place to become what Amazon is now. In addition to printing the catalog, they could have had it online in the early 90s - click, buy, ship... They already had distribution centers in many major cities, plus the stores themselves. All but vanished now. Sears sold everything back in the day. Homes, cars, livestock, dresses, etc. Many people in remote regions of the country had no other way of getting the things offered in the Sears catalogs. They were Amazon 100 years before Amazon existed, they certainly fucked up by not keeping with the times. https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/attachments/15110/original/1909fall-motorbuggy.jpg?1400612240 https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AvShmTy-VaI/VuUjp7_f70I/AAAAAAACHls/VT-WSWkt-b0Q1Ncyk1pl67itqy4kYSN4w/s1600/fall1932-searshomekits.jpg Sears’ complete failure to adapt to the e-commerce age will probably go down as the biggest business fuck up in history. All they had to do was put their catalog on the internet with the ability for customers to place orders. So simple. |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:22:48 AM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:42:16 AM EST
[#45]
BB GUNS!!!
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:45:28 AM EST
[#46]
The thickness of the circle you drew around the toy was directly proportional to how bad you wanted it.
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Posted: 7/3/2021 1:48:32 AM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn't remember it coming out that early but I guess you're right. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: OMG! It was falling apart by Thanksgiving. We kids fought over it making/remaking our Christmas lists dozens of times, A great memory. I didn't remember it coming out that early but I guess you're right. |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 2:03:43 AM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sears was Amazon before the internet was a thing. They really screwed the pooch by letting others get out in front with internet marketing. It's sad to watch the company crumbling; Sears helped build America into what it is today. And yeah, I miss the WishBook. It's now a relic of a bygone era... but damned if it wasn't a good 'un. |
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Posted: 7/3/2021 2:03:54 AM EST
[#49]
Yup, I remember them! But then again, I'm old!
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Posted: 7/3/2021 2:07:19 AM EST
[#50]
yep. as kids, we would note what we wanted for b-day or Christmas, and which page it was in the book,
and that would go to Grandma. I honestly only remember the process, and not whether we got anything from that list. I like looking at the really old Sears catalogs, I had a '54 (?) Montgomery Wards catalog, that was pretty cool to flip through. |
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