Ten years ago I did a series of posts here looking back at the year 1974, and now that that year is officially a half century in the past, I find myself thinking about it again. In particular, I was…
Well, here we are at Christmas time again (!) so let’s take another look at what was available to American consumers fifty years ago via the miracle of the full-color, 602-page Sears catalog as preserved at wishbookweb.com. Set your digital…
I’ve written here before about the joys of virtually “thumbing through” old Christmas catalogs on the Wishbookweb.com site, and while the holidays are behind us for a while, there’s still plenty of time-traveling fun to be had from perusing those…
Christmas is, incredibly, just days away and in an effort to get in the proper mood, I’ve returned to the Wishbook Web site to page through the old catalogs that fueled my imagination as a lad. In 1976, I was eleven…
Halloween is nearly here, and next week brings the even scarier reality of another presidential election, but for me this time of year always brings memories of another annual tradition: the Christmas catalog, or as they were officially known, “wishbooks.”…
