Vintage Christmas catalogs
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csb
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Hey, a set of those Super Bowl pins from the 1986 catalog (in the first couple of pages) showed up on Pawn Stars!
Awesome! I found one of my favorite toys ever, in the 1975 Sears catalog: the girder and panel skyscraper set. This thing was awesome - I always wondered why it disappeared. I could buy it today, if it was available:
Master slacker
Something awesome.
P... I... M... P...
Master slacker
Something awesome.
HFS! I remember this page like it was yesterday!
Master slacker
Something awesome.
And the Micro Machines! :i_cry:
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1985 Sears beginning on page titled "Transformers" and then continuing for approximately 20 pages or so, I knew every single freakin item in those pages at one point in my life.
Capt Worley PE
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Awesome! I found one of my favorite toys ever, in the 1975 Sears catalog: the girder and panel skyscraper set. This thing was awesome - I always wondered why it disappeared. I could buy it today, if it was available:
I loved mine. I still have what's left at my parents' house. It is slightly different. The girders/panels are blue, the road is black with yellow stripes, and mine has a drawbridge mechanism.
Heck! I didn't know they made them as far back as 1958!
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=sprint+sanyo+flip+phone&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.Xgirder+panel+building+set&_nkw=girder+panel+building+set&_sacat=0
Go shopping, Dleg!
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the tinkertoy set we ordered for minisnick has a skyscrapper part to it, fromt he picture it looks slightly grid like, but not quite what that old school one is.
Capt Worley PE
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TVs sure are a bargain in comparison...1978 ad
csb
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"Remote control lets you change channels up or down, adjust volume, turn set on or off from the comfort of your chair."
Up OR down! That's fancy!
(I do remember our remote that only featured these options.)
Up OR down! That's fancy!
(I do remember our remote that only featured these options.)
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Flyer_PE
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^I had two jobs until about that same age.
Job 1: TV Remote
Job 2: Automatic front hubs for the 4WD truck.
^ I remember those, and I still think of the channel line-up in the 12-key format those things used to be in, with 1-12, flip a switch and get 13-24, and then the final tier 25-36. I still feel like I am in the future when I watch any channel higher than 36 today.
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Yes, there were two dials on our tv, 1-12 and 13- some number that was only static. In fact, in the 13 and up range, there were only three channels that we got, channel 35, 44, and 65. 35 was Fox, 44 was something else that always played the best cartoons, and 65 was one of those weird ones that only kind of came in every once in a while and when it did it was like "whoa, what is this show, it's different and cool!!!". Even if it sucked.
Capt Worley PE
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It was 82 or 83 at the upper range, IIRC.
On our TV 2-12 were in the center on a black knob, and 13-? were on a silver ring on the circumference of the black knob.
I got channel changing duties AND movie the antenna duties. The antenna was some modified remote ham unit. Dak-da-dak-stop...move it back-dak-good.
