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Rogue Hawk
02-15-2018, 04:57 PM
It still exists...as a PDF :sour:
http://www.sears.com/en_us/dap/2017-Fall-Catalog.html


Remember how the old ones smelled? And it was such a special occasion when it arrived, particularly the Christmas issue.

http://www.thefashionfolks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20th-century-fashion-history-1970-1980-2.jpg

easysuper
02-15-2018, 05:10 PM
I can only remember it smelling old and musty, when it was sitting out in the outhouse for emergency, but it made good reading while you were waiting for something to happen.

PrairieSpyder
02-15-2018, 06:37 PM
I can only remember it smelling old and musty, when it was sitting out in the outhouse for emergency, but it made good reading while you were waiting for something to happen.

Was the lingerie section the last to be used? :roflblack::roflblack:

wyliec
02-15-2018, 07:28 PM
It still exists...as a PDF :sour:
http://www.sears.com/en_us/dap/2017-Fall-Catalog.html


Remember how the old ones smelled?
http://www.thefashionfolks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20th-century-fashion-history-1970-1980-2.jpg

So, what's your preference?

Chupaca
02-15-2018, 08:38 PM
It was our guide to the american life....being in a foreign country...we could see the latest toys, tools, clothes fads and styles. That and movies were all we had to go by....We got everything many months later so any traveler was accosted for information....:roflblack:

MR. H1956
02-15-2018, 09:50 PM
I ordered my first 3 speed spyder bike out of a sears catalog when I was 12. Of course I had to work on our farm and the neighbors farm to earn the money to pay for it. But it was a great bike to ride back then. Even in the stores the catalog had that smell to it. But no one cared they just wanted to order something from big book.

ThreeWheels
02-16-2018, 12:06 AM
It still exists...as a PDF :sour:
http://www.sears.com/en_us/dap/2017-Fall-Catalog.html


Remember how the old ones smelled? And it was such a special occasion when it arrived, particularly the Christmas issue.

http://www.thefashionfolks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20th-century-fashion-history-1970-1980-2.jpg


So, what's your preference?

I can't tell. I'll have to try all four. In the interest of saving time, I'll try two of them at a time.
That should probably average out to what, 18 seconds each ?

Rogue Hawk
02-16-2018, 09:41 AM
So, what's your preference?

I don't understand

wyliec
02-16-2018, 10:37 AM
I don't understand

You said remember how the old ones smelled, along with a picture of females. Do you get it now?

BigGuy66
02-16-2018, 10:49 AM
...was what dreams were made of!!! :roflblack::roflblack::roflblack: I remember looking at the toy section - really - for hours and turning down the pages, circling the ones I really wanted and then tearing out the pages so "Santa" would know exactly what I wanted. BTW - did anyone buy a house from the Sears catalog?

Bob Denman
02-16-2018, 10:57 AM
I can't tell. I'll have to try all four. In the interest of saving time, I'll try two of them at a time.
That should probably average out to what, 18 seconds each ?

:D C'mon: reach for the Stars! :2thumbs:
Go for all four at once... :bowdown:

We'll even pay to put, "Hold my beer, and watch this!"; on your memorial stone!

ThreeWheels
02-16-2018, 11:22 AM
:D C'mon: reach for the Stars! :2thumbs:
Go for all four at once... :bowdown:

We'll even pay to put, "Hold my beer, and watch this!"; on your memorial stone!

It will take three morticians four weeks to get the smile off my face.

Bob Denman
02-16-2018, 11:34 AM
:D Tell them to leave there: you earned it! :thumbup:
Besides: it'll drive the archeologists NUZ in about 10 million years.... :roflblack:

Rogue Hawk
02-16-2018, 12:41 PM
You said remember how the old ones smelled, along with a picture of females. Do you get it now?

I only know what the catalog smelled like

ARtraveler
02-16-2018, 03:16 PM
I did my Christmas shopping from the Trifecta of catalogs every year. Sears, JC Penny and Montgomery Wards. We did not need to go anyplace else to get anything. :yes::yes:

Bob Denman
02-16-2018, 03:36 PM
I did my Christmas shopping from the Trifecta of catalogs every year. Sears, JC Penny and Montgomery Wards. We did not need to go anyplace else to get anything. :yes::yes:

And thanks to the internet: you STILL don't have to! :D