Let’s Visit Christmas 1969
I want to take you on a journey to a place where the Sears Wishbook was what you waited for all year.
Sears sold ANYTHING. Dad wanted a pipe – Sears catalog. Mom wanted a leopard skin rug? Sears catalog. Dentures? Yup. They even sold wrapping paper and bows to wrap your ordered gifts in. Diapers. Cleansers. Mink coats. Enemas.
Truly, Sears had it all. So, let’s go back to when I was eight years old and see what was there.
Here’s the cover.
You could buy the door and the ornaments.
I STILL want a nightgown like this…(hey baby, why don’t you come up and see me some time?)
The gravel art we covet now were just craft kits back then…and you printed cards by hand, not computer. Check out the Mod Podge kit!
Let’s decorate the yard too…
Now, onto stuff a kid of eight would have enjoyed then…
Exercise with your Hoppity Hop or your Tip-Rok… (our parents used to send us to a place called “outside”)…
I personally know four ladies that would have sold their brothers for this kitchen set…in avocado!
How about some clothes to stimulate your imagination? (Gender specific of course; this IS 1969)
And who could live without Barbie and her pals? I had a case like that!!
Dear Sears CEO: Bring this stuff back!!!
So here’s the deal. I want you to go to WishbookWeb.com and find the year closest to your eighth birthday. What was in that catalog that you really, really wanted?? Leave your fondest Sears (or equivalent in your world) memories here.
all pictures courtesy of WishbookWeb.com
Comments
I think they are kidding, they have recently gone to a class reunion that predated that. They are so old fashioned that the computer I have to use has a hand crank on the side of it.
Mogley G. Retriever
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Benny & Lily
I remember wanting Monchichi dolls, Glamour Gals, and my sister and I just loved Ginny dolls! Oh, the memories!
Thanks for the trip!
Gosh, look how cheap da stuffs was back then.
Oh and her wouldn't mind havin' dat Tip Rock NOWS, her says it looks fun. I am giving away a free mum if anybuddy wants her.
Puddles
One day I'll have one around the year when I was a kid. =D
Over the past 4 years, I've been able to replace my Tammy with clothes and furniture via Ebay. It's wonderful to see her again.
Thanks for such wonderful memories and for the great link.
I perused the catalog from my childhood and I saw an amazing kitchen set that had tiny little plastic Pyrex! That's what I want. Now.
And humans think I'm strange...
Yours,
Hoppity Hop! Yay! She absolutely loved her Hoppity Hop :D Bounced all over the yard and her brother ;)
Thanks for the memories!
Waggin at ya,
Roo and Mom
wif love from the Luke
xoxoxoox
Sammie and Ava's Mom!
I blogged about this very thing last year. The magic of thumbing through those pages and seeing all the cool stuff you could order - it was almost more than a kid could fathom. I don't know that we ever got much of the stuff we looked at, although I think we did eventually get a race car set, but it was our eras equivalent of surfing the web.
Thanks for the great post, Barbara!
I'd still like that nightgown.
Sue