In 1933, sears released its first ever wish book a vast catalog highlighting the stores bestselling items that served as a sort of cheat sheet for what to buy everyone on your holiday gift list. Clicking on any of the graphical catalog panels below will open up a new window containing the selected catalog navigation screen. Remembering how i eagerly awaited those pages filled with advertisements for model airplanes, boats, guns, erector sets, and countless. Huge 612 page colorful, collectible sears christmas catalog. A local sears was cleaning out their warehouse and uncovered a bunch of old mattel stuff from the. Sears brings back its wish book, hoping nostalgia will. Selected images from a pristine copy of the 1962 sears, roebuck and co. Every year sears put out a massive catalog, known as the sears wish book. Please enjoy the new format and if you have any feedback, feel free to let us know via email or leave a comment. Do you remember the thrill of poring over the toyfilled pages of the sears wish book.
This shopping feature will continue to load items when the enter key is pressed. Vintage 1973 sears christmas wish book catalog vg complete. For this be kind rewind, we going to try to be as kind as we can while taking a look back at a relic from the past. The sears catalog and the name wish book were closely linked over the years. Sears has printed its holiday wish book almost every year since 1933. In 1989, anything involving nintendo was instantly cool. This interactive publication is created with flippingbook, a service for streaming pdfs online. A tattered sears revives its holiday wish book cbs news.
Since its first publication in 1934 until its death in the 1990s. The sears wish book was a popular christmasthemed catalog released annually by the american department store chain sears in august or september. Peek inside searss 1990 holiday wish book mental floss. The very first sears wish book, known as the sears christmas book catalog, came out in 1933 and started a tradition that made the sears wish book an american icon the design the 1988 wish book cover contest, sponsored by sears was a nation wide challenge for all children ages four to eleven giving them a chance to have their artwork displayed on the cover of the wish book, sears annual. Christmas catalogs are excellent references books for products available in 1983. Sears brings back iconic holiday wish book to woo shoppers. Stuff i want from the 1986 sears christmas wish book. Find great deals on ebay for sears wish book 1980 and sears wish book 1981. Sears brings back its holiday wish book in digital and print. Returning to 1989 through a sears wishbook youtube. The 1991 sears wishbook comes in at a whopping 806 pages, by far the largest of. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate. Sears christmas wishbook catalogue october 2015 june 2016.
Stefanie, denise beryl and 4 more people faved this. Thats because back then, the annual sears christmas wish book would arrive in the mail in midoctober. I hadnt known that sears had a telegames version of mattels intellivision. The first sears wish book was published in 1934 and was a separate catalog from the annual sears christmas catalog. Id spend days on end pouring over all of that years offerings and circling all the cool stuff i wanted. Featured items in this first catalog included the miss pigtails doll, an electric battery powered toy automobile, a mickey mouse watch, fruitcakes, lionel electric trains, a five pound box of. Estate find 1989 sears great american wish book christmas catalog good condition.
I also remember talking about it during school lunch. These catalogs were the catalyst for all sorts of middle class sugar plum dreams, and when i found a cc licensed flickr group of old images, i knew there would be posting. Newsletter winter 2017 sears holdings responds to mother natures disasters for the first time in history, two category 4 hurricanes hit the u. These playsets were lightweight, using cardboard backdrops with printed adventure scenes to make mighty use out of what was essentially just paper. No redblooded american child or adult, for that matter could resist leafing through sears glossy gift. Nintendo was all over the sears wish book, but not just on the gaming pages. Do you remember when tmnt merchandise was plastered everywhere. Sears revives the wish book holiday catalog retail dive. Sears canadas wish book gone with the retail giant, but. The sears wish book used to offer exclusive toys, available nowhere else. The bulk of them batched normal action figures with strange cardboard playsets that youd only find in wish books. The very first sears wish book, known as the sears christmas book catalog, came out in 1933. The story of the sears wish book orangebean indiana.
Nothing says christmas to me like my memories of the sears. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. This years nostalgic christmas series is going to feature various vintage christmas catalogs from the 80s and 90s. Sears wish book cover 1989 canada with images christmas. Start shopping to get cashback in points on every purchase. Prior to 1933, sears customers often affectionately referred to the large, semiannual, general catalogs sears issued as the wish book or book of wishes. Dating back to 1933, the wish book was as much of a holiday tradition as picking out the family christmas tree. No other brand was as prolific in the childrens clothing section, and if you think about it, that makes perfect sense. Its listed below and they state its compatibility with intellivision games.
Today, were going to look at the 1989 sears wishbook. The sears wish book every year around my birthday which is in late november, jc penny and sears would mail out their giant catalogs of christmas goodness. I loved getting the sears wish book, and i remember the 1990 edition from when i was nine. Sears christmas wish book 1995 canada catalog by sears. What about watching back to the future on your vcr while eating. So in that grand tradition, lets take a trip back in time to 1986. It was the year i turned 11 years old, and was also the year of the apollo 11 moon landing. Sears 1978 christmas wish book by simpsonsears 1978.
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