NOSTALGIC 1952 Vintage Catalogue Flip Through: Sears Roebuck & Co
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2024
- This is just a quick, nostalgic, and fun video, looking at furniture and decor from 1952! This is the American spring Sears Roebuck & Co catalog. It's amazing to see how prices have changed over the years.
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The internet generation cannot appreciate the joy that the arrival of the Christmas catalogues created. Loved them!
Omg the sears wish book (and jc Penney)- best!
Sears, Montgomery Waed and J.C. Penney, the wish books, joy for every child!@TranscendFurnitureGallery
We got the Miles Kimball catalog. They had a story theme with neat illustrations to get you look at every page. Always so fun to read through.
I remember circling all the things I wanted......such simpler times.
When you commented on the fabric by the yard I had to chuckle. I didn't know you could by clothes in stores until the 1960s. I thought they all came via mail. Either from catalogs, hand-me-downs or homemade by my Grandmother or my Mom. I learned to sew when I was 10 years old and started making my own clothes. Even made my own wedding dress and also my daughter's, who just turned 50 in May🤗 Still have totes full of "fabric by the yard"😅
This video was such a walk down memory lane. Thank you!
I love that!!! What a skill to have! As witnessed in the Cat Condo video, my skills are basic. 😊
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery Your sewing skills may be basic, but your artistic are most definitely not, as your paintings, tattoos and furniture attest.
@@christiemay4444 You should pass on those totes of fabric before they disintegrate. Habitat for Humanity would probably take them. I know I've made curtains for them from donated fabric.
So enjoyed a stroll down memory lane. We had one of those chrome dinette sets with pearlized gray plastic upholstery when I was little. All of our appliances were Kenmore because Sears was “where America shops.” Mom and Dad bought a solid ash wood bedroom suite (his and hers dressers, bookcase headboard) done in the blonde finish. Dad died in 2004, Mom in 2015 and that bedroom set was still going strong. I sold it to a friend who’s a fan of mid-century.
Thank you so much for sharing that!!
I worked at Sears while in college part time as a floater. Was never in appliances or furniture but covered everything else including giving away free goldfish to any child who brought their parents in to shop.
I think I remember that in the 50’s you could order pets and farm animals from the Sears catalog. You could also buy a kit to build your own house, boats and motors and guns. There wasn’t much you couldn’t order from the Sears catalog. 😊
There were many "kits". Some school mates of mine lived in a house built from a kit.
You could also order injections of cocaine.
I've just read John Connelly's latest novel and a sears catalogue house features heavily in it (not in a good way....!!!).
Animals???
My Mom ordered her chicks from Sears catalogue.
OMG, Im drooling! The maximalist in me is exploding! Thank you so much, Angie. And, my great auntie had a chair bed in the guest room with the double bed for grandkids. 😊
You're so welcome Carmen!! I'm glad you liked it!
This was an I wish book for us kids growing up.
I love that!
I still call them wishing books.
Well before my time, but the overall theme makes me smile. Thank you for going the extra mile (km) by adding neat sound effects & music. I hope you & crew are doing well, living your best lives on the East Coast. Cheers Angie 😘 Pat
You're welcome Pat!
Recognized a lot of items in that catalog. It was such an exciting day when the Sears catalog came.
I agree completely!
A walk down Memory Lane. I was a freshman in high school.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The year I was born 😊. My parents loved Early American furniture 🤮. My aunt and uncle were MCM and I loved their style. I still love MCM.
Nostalgic and sometimes a bit sad. I’m 71 and remember most of these things either from my parents, relatives or friends homes. I can even remember the feel of the upholstery on the sofas and chairs, curtains with ruffles were called priscillas. I don’t remember a ringer washer but when I was a young adult, my mother told me she had washed laundry in the tub and hung it on the line to dry when my sister and I were young. Thank you for sharing. 👍💕
My great grandmother had a wringer washer. Very cool.
You're most welcome! I'm so sorry it made you sad though.
I had blond-look furniture growing up. I loved the lightness of the wood. Since I was born in 1950, this was very nostalgic!
As you flipped through clothes at the end, I saw one of my Mom's favorite dresses...
That was a fun ride! The carpet that you said looked so familiar to you was pretty much identical to some linoleum that was in the attic of the old Victorian house I grew up in. Also, a kitchen floor cabinet with an enamel top that you showed, but did not speak about, looks almost identical to one that my maternal grandfather built. He passed away when my mother was about 14, which would have been around 1948. I grew up with it in my home and got it when my mom passed away in 2010. It's a simple homemade piece made of plywood and the enamel is chipped. Don't care! It is one of my most prized possessions.
Looks like Memory Lane...i was born in 1955 so a lot of those items when i grow up as a kid. Remember the dressers and coats in tho,s late fifty,s and the shoes...But things where a little bit different in Europe, people did not buying from a catalog, it was for many people a strange new item that they did now about, so they buy from the Store . But so nice to look back in the past and some things where real expensive ! Thanks for the time travel !!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Wow, the more things change, the more they really do stay the same. The shapes and profiles of some of the living room furniture could have come straight out of the latest IKEA catalogue, were it not for the fabric and the colours. My parents had a set of that blonde-coloured bedroom furniture; but the handles were dangerous! They had pointy bits on either side of the drawer pulls and, if you fell into them, you could get badly gouged! Understandable, though - I mean, seat belts weren't yet a thing back then. So there is that. I wasn't born until a few years after this catalogue came out, but I remember seeing so much of that stuff everywhere. Thank you for this trip down memory lane. :) It was really fun and a bit of an eye opener.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Most of that furniture looks still amazing nowadays 💘
Angie, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I really enjoyed it. ❤
You're very welcome Jennifer!
Thanks for the memories! This was great! My mom loved pink. We had a pink dinette set when I was little at the end of the 1950's. I love the old stoves and all the furniture. In the 1970's when i was first married, we bought wood unfinished furniture. You had to assemble it too. I still have the dressers and a roll top desk that my husband built. It was solid wood, and not that expensive. He also made some other wood pieces out of pine like end tables, a coffee table and storage pieces. They all match and we are still happy to have them! I miss those wish books! So much fun!!
You're very welcome!! ! Even as a kid we loved looking through them too!
I was born in the early 60's and was the youngest child so lots of the furniture in that catalog looks familiar. Your mention of the blonde finished furniture brought back something I hadn't thought about in years. One of my neighborhood friends had that exact type of blonde bedroom furniture you pointed out in the catalog. I also have a newly developed love for the waterfall style of furniture...probably due to all the furniture refinishing and restoration channels I watch😂
Thank You for sharing the Sears 1952 catalog! WOW what a trip down memory lane, Angie! Yeah, I'm in my mid-forties, too lol, and I remember some of these pieces of furniture in my mom's aunt's house; she had a "sun-beam" yellow chrome dinette that I adored. Would love to have today. I see those dinettes for sale here in vintage/antique shops. The Silvertone radios were awesome as were the Gene Autry acoustic guitar and Arch-top style guitar. I am willing to bet the brand on that was Kay. The Korina wood furtiture was nostalgic, too. I think Fender guitars started using Korina wood in the 60s, before they were bought by CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System... one of our major news outlets here in the States). The shoes! Can't forget about the shoes! I had to wear Oxfords and Loafers in school! lol I can't wait for more catalogs. Yes, make this into a "mini-series" playlist. :) Thanks again, Angie! Cheers!
You're very welcome! I really enjoy sharing them with everyone. 😁
In 1968 my father made similar couches by using webbing, wood, and store bought legs. He upholstered the foam himself.
Your father sounds awesome!!!
I wa 10 years old in 1952 in the USA and I remember alot of these. My Mother had that “blonde” furniture and I despised it even then. You have to understand that consumers had spent almost 20 horrible years in the Great Depression and then World War II. They were so hungry for new, and pretty, and colorful. They had been through poverty and deprivation and rationality.
As a teenager later in the 1950s, I made all my clothes-if you were a size 5, you either did that or shopped in the kids department. Thanks for the memories. I gotta go get an old Sears catalog!!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Leuk om dingen van de 'andere kant van de grote plas' te zien. Tot een volgende catalogus of meubel. 🙋🏼♀️ vanuit Zwolle in Nederland
Thank you so much for watching!
Angie: 1952-ah those memories and prices! Growing up in the ‘50’s was a lot of fun. My parents had many of those things that I saw in the catalog. In fact, Craftsman’s tools were of an excellent quality and so was Kenmore appliances. I remember the adults talking about those things that were the best to buy at Sears. Going through the catalog was a lot of fun! Thank you. Carol from California
I'm glad you enjoyed it Carol! Thank you so much for watching! 😊
That was FUN !!!!!!!
Im so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
I'm 60 and so much of this looks familiar, from grandparents', aunts and uncles, and my own family of course. The "cottagecore" chairs look similar to my dad's chair, which surely dates back to that era. It's actually going to be my chair as soon as I can get up to my mom's to fetch it. This was so interesting and nostalgic - thank you!
You're so welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
My fav thing in this catalog are the floating female heads with the speech balloons 😂
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We had a chair bed when I was a kid. The back had a ratcheting mechanism so it had several positions all the way down to totally flat, making it a bed. Bed couches worked the same mechanism.
My sister has a modern version in her house now. A double and a single.
Love looking at old stuff like this when life at least seemed much more simplier
It really did, didn't it?
That’s so neat❤ When I was young Daddy bought 2 unfinished chests from Sears. I think my brother may still have his. He’s 69.
That's wonderful!
Thank you for this Angie. I’ve had a very rough time this weekend, and this video was the perfect mental escape to lift my spirits. ❤
Looking forward to another furniture video or a catalog video!
I think you need a sub channel for these catalogs since you like collecting them. I collect old Life magazines from the 30s and 40s and this is right up my alley!
Sorry to hear you had a rough weekend, I hope the week is going better!
A walk down memory lane for sure.
Awesome!!!!! Brings back many memories!
(born in ’49)
I'm so glad!!
This was really fun to watch. I have seen those old wringer washing machines but had no idea they were so expensive in their day; same with radios, much more expensive than I would have thought.
With respect to veneer, it's not the veneer itself that's a drawback for me, but what is underneath; it's fine if it's a less expensive wood like pine, but I steer clear of pressed board.
I was born in 1952 and I thorughly enjoyed this!!
Vintage Chenille bedspread depending on the design, size and condition will sell for a couple hundred dollars now. There was an American furniture company that made chair sleepers, converted into a single bed. That was in the 1990's when I worked in a furniture store.
Awesome video, so fun seeing this. Thank you 😊
My pleasure! 😊
We had similar in Australia,😂 I remember Mum ordering everything for our return to Australia from our OS posting. 😅 I chose my bedroom set, some clothes and bedding. I was 9yrs old. ❤
Loved the trip down memory lane. In 1952 my parents purchased a deep freeze, and received an aluminum and laminate table with 6 chairs as a premium! Those were the days. The freezer worked until 2004 and I recently gifted the table and chairs to my best friend who loves them.
That is wonderful that they're still being used!! 😊
Absolutely loved this, and near the end-in the shoe section-were the exact saddle shoes Mom used to buy for me. I got one pair of shoes and 1 new dress per year. We had the chrome & vinyl kitchen table (red vinyl). What really surprised me was the 'electric and GAS washing machine" Wow, run your laundry with gas, that's a new one for me.
The washing machines are giving strong Fallout vibes, and the vibra-- I mean, "vitalator" is a hoot. I found one like it from Oster, a rival company, that had the same steel spring straps and sponge-rubber pad 😆
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I was born in 1952! Thanks for the memories💖
You're welcome!! ☺️
What fun!!! I recognized several things from my childhood. The bedspread you said you recalled the feelof, my neighbor had those, and they also had the washerwith the wringer up top, and we had a push mower that might have come from a Sears store. My aunt had a bathromm in one of heer early homes that was wall papered with pages from early Sears catalogs.....
What a wild choice for wallpaper!! 😊
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery Yep. It was very entertaining when you were sitting on the toilet! Also, the cost of things. I loved your converting costs then to what they'd be now. Amazing how fast and how much costs have gone up, but materials and labor especially costs more. When I was back east sometimes people papered there walls with a layer of newspaper then wallpaper over it in the old abandoned houses.
This was my Christmas wish list book. How fun to see the older Sears catalogs.
Boy this takes me back! I remember a lot of that furniture, expecially the dinette set and the « chair bed ». We arrived in Canada in the mid sixties and my parents had to buy everything to set us up. It wasn’t through the Sears Catalogue though but at Honest Ed’s in Toronto, because it was more affordable. Later on, when we received the Sears catalogue, my mom and I would pour over it, study every page! Did the same with the Eaton’s and Simpson’s catalogues. Those were the days 😊
I'm so glad I could bring back some fond memories for you! 😊
My Kenmore clothes dryer from 1986 still works as though it was brand new.
I think the reason Sears went belly up was because they got rid of their catalog division in the 1990s. They could have beaten Amazon in internet sales if they had ramped it up instead of closing it down.
Oh I agree. Many of my appliances were Kenmore. They were once such a great brand.
Ah ... those chromed dinette tables and chairs sure take me back ... to the 1990s. 😁 My then-wife was way into that retro stuff before it was cool.
The chenille blankets remind me of my Grandma!
My grandma had chenille bedspreads. One of the desks you passed by looks like the one I got from my grandparents. Some of the waterfall bedroom sets look similar to the set my grandparents got as a wedding present....in 1939.
My grandparents had their home built from scratch and moved in in 1959. It was definitely a 50s home....lol. luckily, my grandmother tended to go for better looking furniture, but the curtains did look similar. I think about the only outrageously kitchy thing they had was a silver tinsel Christmas tree. I miss their house. My grandma moved out shortly after my grandpa died, to love in a senior apartment.
I enjoyed watching this! My parents were married in 1952.
In 1974 I made my Junior prom dress from mint green dotted Swiss fabric I got from the Sears catalog. I don’t remember the cost per yard but I paid about $25 for the fabric.
Very fun and interesting video. Felt like going back to my childhood!
The year I was born, remember a lot of these at friends and families homes.
That was fun! Thanks for sharing these catalogs.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoy them! 😊
Born in 1951 here. Nice trip down memory lane. TV was responsible for a lot of these fashions as people were fascinated with wanting to live like the movie stars LOL.
Different times back in the day.
Thanks for the memories.
You're so welcome! 😀
My folks were married in 1950, I was born in 1956 so A LOT of this stuff in this catalogue is very familiar to me. I remember getting the Christmas catalogue full of toys at Christmas time from Sears. I bet you didn't know that in the 1030s-40s, Sears sold house kits you could build yourself! Yes, you could buy a home kit from Sears catalogue and build your own home! As a child, my mom worked in the office at our local Sears store in my hometown. Ahhh...the memories! Wish we could go back to a much simpler time now. Thanks again for the memories, Angie!
I actually did know that - I've seen some of the ads. Wild times!! 😊
That was awesome, Angie!!!! Thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing more vintage catalogs!
More to come! ❤️
Thank you for posting this video. I really enjoyed it.
I'm so glad!! 😀
nice transition to the radio page 📻 😊
Glad you like it!
My grandmother had one of those gas-powered washing machines on her back porch.
Very many of those items in the catalog bring back memories - the furniture, the drapes, curtains, rugs, bedspreads. The slip covers were always awful fabric patterns.
I appreciate that inflation calculator, it really puts things into perspective. I'm lucky I've inherited a lot of the furniture from my parents house, I could never afford to buy something that nice now!
I'll have to watch this again, great stuff!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! Thank you so much for watching! 😊
Great trip down memory lane. Remember ‘helping’ my mom do the laundry on a wringer washing machine. We didn’t have the chrome dinette but a maple drop-leaf table and chairs. Great for making forts on rainy days. My sister now uses it in her home. Thank you!
You're welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This was so cool, Angie. Thanks so much for sharing it!
You are so welcome!
That was great and your sound track was perfect.
These videos are ALWAYS so much fun!!!! Hoping all is well Angie, Dirty Jersey out!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it Mike! 😀
So fun! I was born in 53, these are my parent's clothes!
If you had a Time Machine, are there any items/pieces that you’d go back and buy and return with?
Love these trips down memory lane with these old catalogues. Although I’m in the UK, I can see similarities and where inspirations were drawn from.
Im always on the lookout for Breuer backed chairs in chrome and natural. I used to have these around my kitchen table in the early 80”s and now, holy cow!
Very nostalgic for me. I was born in 1956 so all this stuff was around when I was a kid. My mom had pretty modern taste though so our kitchen table had a Formica top with chrome legs. She always said she liked modern Mediterranean style.
Really loved that! Thanks Angie
You're very welcome! ☺️
Slip covers are awesome!
My mom had one of those yellow and green aluminum chaise loungers with the adjustable back! I used to love sitting on the back patio on that it was so comfortable!
I really miss unfinished furniture!! With as much as people like to refinish, paint on, and play with stains etc I am really surprised that you can't get them anymore! They were an amazing way of getting a nice set of furniture when you were first starting out.
That was fun. Thank you.
Oh man...I am getting all sorts of flashbacks from these images! I grew up in the 70s (in Australia) and SO MANY of my friends' and neighbours' houses had furniture like this. Particularly vinyl...combined with the warm humid climate, and ubiquitous cigarette smoke, I can SMELL these pictures 🤣
"Vinyl-Plastic"--how fancy!! Great episode, thanks.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
WOW! a good year 1952! Angie, that's the year l was born. I grew up with a lot of those things, and earlier pieces too that my Mum had inherited from her mother. I laugh today at most of those things. Dad wore those wide legged straight trousers and always made sure he pulled them up a bit so as not to get "knees" in them. Whew! a flood of memories from then. Funny though. Life was oh so much simpler back then. The curtains in my bedroom were white crossover terryline, our kitchen had similar with ruffles and they had cherries on them. I loved those and to this day now, l still love anything with fruit on it like crockery.
Yessss another one! So much fun. I love all the silly gadgets
I was born in 1952. Our mom had a one of those wringer washers. They didn’t have a spin-dry cycle. Her washer had a manual wringer she had to crank by hand. Mom said the automatic wringers were dangerous! She heard stories about women who got their fingers and hands crushed by those newfangled automatic wringers!
Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I enjoyed it!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching! 😊
Pretty neat really is like a history book.
I loved that red Crome dinette set that mom had.
Oh my WORD! I have that 3 piece bedroom set in my garage and am refinishing them! It helps to know what veneer I’m working with!❤
Oh my gosh! I remember getting these catalogs when we were kids, of course later than the 50s. Kids would just sit there and look at everything in there for hours! And when they came out with their Christmas catalogs, oh my gosh, look out! We would take turns picking out everything we wish we could have I remember a couple of those couches. And I remember the wringer washing machine. I hated that thing!! And I am right there with you. I would totally buy that chair! Thanks this was really fun! ❤😊❤
My pleasure!! The Sears catalog at Christmas was such an amazing childhood memory, we looked forward to it every year as well. ❤️
you've just given me a great idea for research into the early sixties for a novel I'm writing, thank you!
You're welcome! I'm glad I could help!
Those slipcover patterns remind me of my grandma's house.
a couple of unique hideosities amongst the stuff
That was a Fun look at merchandise the year I was born‼️ Thanks👍🏼
You're welcome!
Love these catalogue videos! so many memories! It’s fascinating tp me and I love history so I I find it a great deal of fun to see what things looked like, cost and how things were made and advertised back in the day. Thanks Angie these are so entertaining!
I'm so glad you like them! 😊
Chenille bedspreads! I collect them! Buy them at Goodwill or estate sales. Love them. ❤️
I adore these vintage catalogue tours 😄. I'm looking forward to seeing more!
I was a child in the Canadian prairies and fondly recall a lot of the furniture and decor from these catalogues in my Grandmas' homes.
As a young girl in the 1980's when going to visit my grandparents who lived on a farm, my Grandma always had the most current Sears and Eaton's catalogues and I loved flipping through them (because our family lived in the "city" so my Mum didn't order catalogues) ☺️
There's a new one coming today!! (Sunday) Keep an eye out! 😊
I loved this video. Soon many memories. I spent hours looking at those magazines in my lap. Thank you.
You're very welcome! 😊
well im 60 yrs old born n1964 and yes i clearly remenber alot of that !!! thank you for memory lane;];];];]
You're welcome Patty! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Reading these comments makes me feel... very young... i was born in 2003 so my nostalgia is very different to all of this!
I did grow up with one of those old washing machines. In the front yard. With plants in it 😂
😂🤣 Thank you for the giggle this morning!!
That was fun! Thanks❣️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yup! So much of that furniture I grew up with. My favorite was the bedspreads. Those lasted until my college days in the 1970s. Those clock radios were EXPENSIVE and I bet they only have AM radio
Loved it!📖👓 My favorite are the chrome dinettes.
I was born in 12/27/64. It was a big deal to get the Sears, JC penny and other catalogs in the mail especially the Christmas catalog. My sister and I would browse thru them for hours. Wishing 🙏🏼 lol. Thanks Angie this was fun
You're welcome Jodi!!
How fun was that! Tfs!❤
Thank you so much for watching! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve been looking in vain for living room chairs. I’d buy those chairs too!
Ratan is timeless!
It truly is!
This was a great video and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Please continue to do these kinds of vids with the restoration vids!! I saw a washing machine and a vacuum my grandmother had when I was a kid. By the time it hit my memory, it was already outdated. Goes to show things were made to last back then!!
They definitely were! They were made so differently from now!
Great music selection for this one! Thx for taking the time it must have needed to film and stage this. Really creative 👌
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!