Sears Christmas 1945

[BeBopBaby]

I actually own at 3 of the 78 record sets pictured on page 176.

I'll take all the knick knacks and kitchen items, please.

 

[panamag8or]

All I can think about is how much that stuff would be worth today.

 

[CharlieH.]

All I can think about is how much that stuff would be worth today.

Look here.

 

[carter]

Here's an interesting page from the catalog.

 

[panamag8or]

Look here.

I used one of the Parker fountain pens from the 1955 Spiegel catalog, and it came out about right, as far as what people will pay on the bay for the same pen now.

 

[carter]

This is the "Wishbook" catalog, which isn't their full catalog. It has mainly a lot of gift suggestions for the holiday season. I did see some men's clothing there, but not many pages of that category...

Not a lot of clothing. That was in the Big Book.

Here's the Index page from the catalog:

 

[Vintage Betty]

Browsing around last night, I ran across this. The entire Sears Christmas Wishbook for 1945 has been scanned and posted.

Have I told you how handsome you look today?

Thanks for all the hard work!

VB

 

[Flivver]

As a child, my friends and I used to play a game with the Lionel Train catalog. We would each get to "select" one item per page as we went through the catalog.

I now have a collection of old Sears and Ward's catalogs and will still play this game as I page through them.

If only we *could* put a vintage stamp on that order blank and send away for anything in the catalog!

 

[Dracca]

That was so fun! Thanks for sharing it.

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

Here's an interesting page from the catalog.

I don't remember when Sears bought fur pelts, I guess I was too young. I know they still sold honey bees in the early 1970's. I have a friend that ordered bees from them several times.

 

[panamag8or]

I don't remember when Sears bought fur pelts, I guess I was too young. I know they still sold honey bees in the early 1970's. I have a friend that ordered bees from them several times.

Once upon a time, you could buy a house and furnish it from the Sears catalog.

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

Once upon a time, you could buy a house and furnish it from the Sears catalog.

There's one here that I know of, probably more.

 

[Flivver]

The Allstate

In 1953, you could also buy a car out of the Sears catalog.

It was called the Allstate, and was a slightly modified Henry J made for Sears by Kaiser Fraiser.

 

[panamag8or]

There's one here that I know of, probably more.

Richard Nixon was born in a Sears house.

 

[Weston]

So beautiful I find it hard to look away. If we had products like that available, I'd buy something EVERY DAY. My own personal favorite was the page of bibles with "Know the Glory of the Holy Scriptures". Real, good old fashioned American stuff. I see a ton of things I'd buy for a son, when I have him. Any way to download it for offline reading?

 

[LizzieMaine]

There's one here that I know of, probably more.

We have an entire neighborhood of those houses here, built in the 1910s -- each one was originally identical to the next, but over the years they've been uniqued-up by various owners. But even now you can look at them and see they all came out of the same kit. Good solid working-class housing -- and despite remodelings, they're still quite attractive!

 

[Michaelson]

Of course, I looked for the watches, and was quite disappointed with the selection....but then it dawned on me that U. S. made watches weren't available for civilian 'consumption' for almost 2 years AFTER the war ended, so that explained why the pickings are so slim in this 1945 catalog![huh] :eusa_doh:

Regards! Michaelson

 

[carter]

So beautiful I find it hard to look away. If we had products like that available, I'd buy something EVERY DAY. My own personal favorite was the page of bibles with "Know the Glory of the Holy Scriptures". Real, good old fashioned American stuff. I see a ton of things I'd buy for a son, when I have him. Any way to download it for offline reading?

I did two pages that are posted above by pulling them up, highlighting the page and clicking on properties, then I just pasted the image using the image tool on this reply box.

You should be able to pull up each page and save it as an image on your PC. At 170+ pages, this may take awhile.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Richard Nixon was born in a Sears house.

Yep, and it's still there at the Nixon library. Richard and Pat are buried nearby, it's amazing to think of a life of over 80 years with the beginning and ending points so close together.