My older sister mail ordered Rhode Island Red baby chicks for a 4H project, before my time, I’m guessing 1964. Use to love Sears “Wishbook” which we’d get in the mail this time of the year! Great video!!
Sears Catalogs were the Amazon of their day! The best thing as a kid (in the 70's) was to get this or a JC Penney one and just go through it slowly, page by page, wishing you could buy all the fun stuff!
I grew up with a lot of this furniture. My parents' generation bought this stuff in the early/mid 60s. By the time I can remember, most of it was being moved into newly renovated "rec rooms" in the basement. I spent my teen years in the 80s hanging out on those couches (or chesterfields, as we called them then). They was built to last. The tailored men's coat was made to last as well. My father wore the same "good" coat my whole life. He was a labourer, so he didn't wear it daily but even his daily work jackets lasted years and were "made over" by my mom before they were replaced. The purchases were an investment for decades of use, not one year. Thanks for sharing this. It was a real blast from the past. My husband is more shocked about the motorcycles than the burro. Lol.
Yes, I recognize some pieces my parents owned. Getting that Sears & Roebuck order was so exciting! I can trace most of my childhood clothes to that source!
Mom used to mend Dad’s socks. She had one dress I remember for years. It became a house dress. It was faded and rough around the edges but we weren’t rich. We lived in a 28’ trailer. It was 8 feet wide. Roaches were a nightly battle. My dad loved to spray them. I slept on the couch from 5-16 when we finally got a home. We had one of the first black & white tv’s with test patterns before the station signed on for the day. My dad would drive us nuts by constantly twisting knobs in the back “to make it (the picture) better. It would roll, zig zag lines, blurry, etc. oh the good old days. I’m 80!
Sears Roebuck! Yes, memories of pouring over that catalog year after year, especially at Christmas and for outfits. My mother's first job was taking orders at Sears Roebuck, early 1940s, the building in the Fenway/Kenmore Square area, Boston.
I loved this. I have gone thru Sears & Roebuck catalogs online to find clothes I used to own as a kid, bikes, a tent, living room furniture, fabric, mom's crinkly brown Kenmore sewing machine with beautiful chrome trim that my sister and I grew up to use in high school in the 60s. People didn't take as many photos then as now and US military families with large families like ours took even less, so that is how I find past memories to document. God bless people like you who share resources that we otherwise would not find and get to see. In fact, RUclips is a fabulous example of social media when it comes to clever and resourceful people like you, sharing your expertise, as well as giving others joy.
I’m 64 and my sister and mine were purple to go with the green carpet. Mum didn’t keep much it always went to someone that needed it. I remember some of the furniture pieces, vinyl seats were the worst in summer your skin would stick to it.
You just brought me back to my days, I remembered a lot of stuff, dining set, radio's, etc. Not furniture but yes continue with the magazines, can't wait for the next.
Ahh, thise were the good ole days for sure! I'm 73 we lived in the country and the Sears catalog was the only way we shopped! We would argue over who got first dibs on looking first! This episode brought back priceless memories. Thanks Angie awesome video! 😊❤
That was so much fun. I certainly did browse those old catalogues, and dream along with my mom. I was a kid in the 50s, so that's all I could do -- dream.🤩 We were poor farmers in Manitoba at the time.
We were in Canada so we didn’t get jc penny regularly, BUT my mom always got the jc penny wish book at Christmas because I was OBSESSED with Breyer Horses. :-)
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery As a teenager, the fashion part of both catalogs were of the greatest interest to me. I do think Sears had a wider variety of items though. I'm in Nebraska and we had Sears and Penny's stores as well as a couple other furniture stores where my parents would purchase things. I don't remember them getting furniture via the catalog, but they may have and just picked it up at the store. Lots of memories there.
I was born in 1958. As you can imagine everything you showed was familiar. When I was very young, toddler and up, sitting down and looking at the pictures in a Sears catalogue was the best rainy-day thing to do. Ah, the memories. Thank you!
Love those old bedspreads. My parents had the red dining table with the extra leaves, but not sure if they had more than 6 chairs. I have the table now, and 4 of the chairs. I enjoy your commentary along with viewing the catalog. Thank you for sharing.
Pedal pushers were just below the knee. So your legs could bend easier when you rode your bike. I married in 1957, so, yeah. Dreamed about a lot of things I wanted for my home. Loved this trip down memory lane, Angie.❤
Always looked forward to the catalogs arriving at the house. Also you used to be able to buy (1908-1942) a house (kit) from Sears. Fun fact…When a $1.1M craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797 or today the equivalent of $32,000 (2023 inflation). Amazing!
Somewhere along the line they figured out that if something was TOO well made, those big companies would go out of business eventually. Also, the great depression had just happened along with WW2. Talk about the world changing! Modernization started making people more aware of what they didn't have. And the rest is history, I guess!
Corporate leadership became greedy and wanted more and more money. To do this, they started making things cheaper, which meant less quality, but there wasn't a savings to the consumer. Planned obsolescence was put in place. It is entirely possible to make products that are made to last and have quality and style. It isn't a problem of running out of customers. But they wanted larger and larger profits. Greed drives this machine. Not the consumer.
You aren't kidding! Towels have gone downhill. I have some old-ish Cannon towels that are still hanging in there. They really don't make them like they used to!
I remember the Canadian Sears catalogue when I was a kid in the 70s. I’m not sure if mum bought much through it or if she just liked browsing too! I wish I remembered a wider range of items but being a kid I was purely focussed on the clothes, bikes, play equipment etc. That brief glimpse of the plastic covered lounge set did remind me of how common it was to have clear vinyl covers on couches and how odd and sweaty they were to sit on 😝
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery That peeling sensation/sound as you stood up. Same with smooth vinyl seats in cars. Nostalgia is great and all but some things are better left in the past 😂
Born in 55, I remember so many of the things. A true trip back in time! The furniture was horrendously uncomfortable. We sat on the floor! The pay was less than a dollar an hr back then, imagine trying g to live on that in 2024!
I was born in 1954 and remember so many of these items also! I also remember my Dad saying everything he had except for his wife and kids came from Sears and Robuck catalog!! 😊
They sold houses back in the day…. My house that I bought 25 years ago was built in 1931 . Sears archives sent me a copy of the ad for my house in the Sears catalog
In addition to house kits, they also sold everything to build your own design. Part of our house, built in 1913, came from the Sears Homebuilder's catalog. The staircase, window and door trim, door sets, etc.
The houses from Sears were “pre-fabricated” in that the lumber was pre-cut, windows,doors, bathroom and kitchen appliances and blue prints/instructions were shipped by rail. I also wanted to say thanks for the tour- I love these things from my childhood. One thing I remember is most of the “stay at home” moms wore those shirtwaist house dresses (my mom worked in an office). They were so neat.
Always a fun watch, thanks for sharing. It's cool how much of the technology of that day hasn't changed much 70 years later. If you exclude advances of electronics, the gas stoves, lawn mowers, washer and dryers, etc. all run on basically the same mechanics as today.
I loved those catalogs when I was a kid. I couldn't wait for my grandmother to be finished with hers. We used them for paper dolls. My grandma called them her "wish books"
That's probably Velma's order form. Charles was a bus mechanic in Delevan, NY in 1950. She would have been 28 when she filled that out, and Charles, who was about 36, was probably at work at the garage. He was in the Civilian Conservation Corps at one time, and was a firefighter out west. He also served in the Army Air Corps during World War 2, while she was a homemaker. They went on to have 6 kids, 21 grandkids, and 10 great-grandkids. Just in case you were wondering.....
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery actually, no......genealogy is one of my hobbies, and sometimes a quick census search/obit look up can tell you a lot about someone. I'm all about history in any format. (and I currently own that drum table from page 950)
@@kathywright15 i just looked at the order form she was showing.....then I looked up towns that start with "D" in New York, and Delevan matched the best. then went to the census for 1950 and looked up Charles Spencer, and there they were. ;) (I volunteer for a group that helps find long lost family member/adoptees birth families, so I know how to navigate databases like that)
A resonate spa with me.I was born 2 years before this book came out so I pretty much grew up with a lot of this stuff.Thank you, it was a step back in time.Very very nice Very nostalgic .
@@lucyjosie Sounds lovely. I also like rainy afternoons to cuddle with an old movie or an old magazine/catalogue. I've always been kind of an old sole. Someone older once told me he thought I was 20 going on 30 because I knew things that were beyond my chronological age. He meant it as a compliment.
Love these Sears catalog perusals! What amazes me is the inflation calculator on the clothes - because our clothes now are inexpensive, but they are very cheap. Clothes from the 50’s & 60’s can still be worn if they were stored away from the elements. Furniture seems on par with equivalent quality level today. From my childhood - the toy section was so much fun at Christmas!!! Considering today chicks are shipped in boxes via mail, I’m not surprised Sears sold animals back in the day. Thanks for another entertaining video! ❤
These catalogues were revolutionary at the time, although not an option for anyone who wasn't well-off. They were absolutely the Amazon analog of their time -- you could get nearly anything from one source. I was chuckling to myself a few times while you were going through it, though -- I have NEVER seen the word "velocipede" in anything but a Kate Beaton comic, so that was a fun one! (BTW, "pedal pushers" were pants that ended just below the knee and were designed to use while you biked, so that you didn't get oily bike chain smears on the sides of your pant legs.) And once again, my aversion to mid-century modern style is evident while I'm watching. The only stuff I liked was all labelled "traditional!" The mid-century modern stuff looks like a form of steampunk to me in the old definition of steampunk: "yesterday's tomorrow." I know that lots of people like it though, and I love watching you put your artistic spin on it in your videos. BTW, one of the basics of women's clothing back then was a girdle -- there's a reason those women are all extremely wasp-waisted. I've been thin my whole life, and I couldn't even fit into that stuff without cinching in, either. I'd kill for a couple of those men's wool coats, though. Men's wool coats have big pockets, and the sleeves are always nice and long! Agree with you 100% on the animal concerns -- puppy mills really took off with that sort of thing. Any time you turn a living body into money, bad things happen. 😕
Thank you for that walk back down memory lane! I was born in 54 and recognize sooooo many things in this catalog either that we had or saw at other people's homes. My bedroom set is the white veneer and I almost spit out my coffee when I saw that. It was my parent's that was handed down to me.
One of the most fun things I ever did with my mom was a tour of model homes. It was back in the late 60s. The decor was bold and exciting. This tour of Sears catalog took me back. So much fun.
It WAS the “Christmas catalog “ for us kids. I remember it well. Both my brother and I had pages marked for stuff we wanted. My parents had a lot of that kind of furniture in the house I grew up in. In fact the original yellow Formica table is still there and my parents are long gone. My brother has the house and it’s like a museum to the 50’s
Being born in 1951 I remember most of these items. My mum used to dress up to the nines when going out, Hat gloves, high heel shoes and perfect makeup and hair 😂. Ah the simple life 😊
I remember grandma would sit my very young children on the kitchen floor with the sears Christmas catalog, (while grandma prepared dinner) to keep them occupied and they were so involved with that catalog for hours! Special memories
I grew up looking through the Sears and JC Penney catalogs, although in a later decade, but this nostalgic stroll through the catalog was an incredible walk down memory lane. Thank you so much for doing such a unique and special episode
That was fun. I was born in 1957. I remember most the furniture as family and friends had a lot of it. In fact the sleeper sofa shown stayed in my family and I had it in my first apartment after I graduated from college, using a slip cover. I didn't remember that the catalogues had live animals. Everything else yes. Thank you for walking us through the memories! 💖💖💖💖💖💖
I’ve always been an animal lover. While I do remember having many of these items in our house growing up, it was the pet section that held my interest. It fascinated me that you could order anything from AKC registered dogs to raccoons, and even exotics like monkeys and ocelots. We never did, of course, but I spent many hours just dreaming.
I’m late to this party, but oh, my god did this take me back. I was born in 1964, my brothers in 1956 and 1957. My mother worked for Sears from when she married in 1954 until the early 70s. EVERYTHING in our house was from Sears since we got a discount. All of our clothes, furniture, my dad’s Craftsman tools, our dishes, flatware, towels - it all came from Sears. I still have all my dad’s hand tools and power tools. The power tools are still working after 60+ years. Thanks for the trip back in time!
Thanks, Angie! I loved this trip down pre-memory lane! Because of my own interest, I would've loved to pause longer at the vacuum cleaners, but I know everybody else would yawn. Fun to see it all!
Always enjoy these videos. I'm 67 so I grew up with a lot of this stuff. I remember the chrome edged table and I still have my parents matching bookcase headboard with matching dresser, which has a very large, detachable mirror. Little bit of trivia: The first Sears catalog was introduced in 1893 but only sold watches. The reason Sears started catalog shopping was because of the Black population, they weren't allowed to shop in white's only stores and their stores didn't offer nice products, so the Sears catalog gave them access to those nice products, probably why they also offered livestock.
The reason the mail order catalog came into existence was the ever expanding migration westward with the railroads, though your first sentence was correct. www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/history.htm
I was born in 1957 so this was great! In fact, my parents still have a bedroom set and sofa bed with matching chair of this vintage. I remember a lot of these items from childhood. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. ❤
I enjoy the Sears catalog book Angie I’m from 1959 so I can relate to all the wonderful things that catalog had to offer back then thank you for thanking me back to memory lane I enjoyed it 👍❤️✌️
Wow! I was born in 1957 so I grew up around a lot of that furniture, clothes, bedding, etc. Petal pushers were like capris pants. You were right that the furniture (sofas) weren’t as comfortable as today’s sofas. I remember the material on some of the sofas as kind of this scratchy, “nylon” feeling stuff. The wide arm chairs on the sofas were comfortable though! That is where I would sit after all the adults took all the seats in the room. And I can’t believe they sold animals!! 🤮
@@lizhoward9754 the sofa and chairs weren't so long in the seat (portion from your butt to the back of your knees. My feet could actually touch the floor. I'm short 5'3". Now I pretend I'm Edith Ann.
I was born in 57 as well. I agree about the material on the sofas. My family had one the sleeper sofas forever, in fact I had it in my first apartment after I graduated from college. It's really a trip down memory lane. I laughed out loud seeing the TV trays. I also didn't remember about selling animals. I was horrified.
@@Viaductvienotachicken you can actually still get live chicks in the mail! I worked at a postal facility in North Dakota about 5 years ago, and at a certain point of the summer the whole warehouse was filled with the “cheep cheep cheep!” of chicks in the “live animals” shipping section. They are very careful with transport and making the journey as fast as possible, though.
I loved this video so much! To me those were the good ole days. What a treasure owning an old Sears Catalog is, I miss those days even though I was born in 1955 I am an old soul and would have loved to be a 1950's housewife and mother.
Thanks!! I never would have believed that I could enjoy watching a RUclips video of someone leafing through a catalogue...but it was FUN 😀. Comparing the price to today's dollars partly explains why our parents and grandparents didn't have as much "stuff" as we all do today 😲 "Washable plastic covers" for the furniture 🤣I DO remember THOSE !!
I think pedal pushers are like today's Capri pants. I also they were made for women to be able to ride a bike without getting their pant legs caught in the chain. Not positive, but that's what I think I heard.
Do you ever feel sometimes like you were born in the wrong era? 😂 i loved this flip through.❤❤ its super interesting that alot of the furniture came unfinished!! Ordering pets from a catalog hmmmm... thats different!! Lol
This journey was wonderful Angie. I was one years old growing up in Greece in 1957. I was in Canada in 1966 to 1969 and I remember the furniture my parents bought for our first home there. It was not much different than what the catalogue included. Thank you very much for the trip down memory lane. ❤
So much fun! I recognize many, many of these items! Things back then seemed to last forever and we (siblings and cousins) got lots of stuff passed on and passed down and passed along. Not just clothes, but also bikes, roller skates and swing sets. I think the quality of a lot of these things was maybe better than it is now.🤷🏼♀️ My aunt and uncle had a German Shepherd when I was a kid. My uncle always said the dog came from Sears. He worked for Sears for a long time so I just thought he was joking. Maybe he wasn’t.🧐 I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks, Angie!🌸
Angie; thanks for the tour down memory lane. My father owned an Advertising Art & Photography studio in Chicago, Illinois - his company did the majority of the art & photo's in that catalog. It was so much fun watching all the activity and then the party when the first issues came out. Sadly, that company no longer exists. Like the catalog, it went the way of Sears themselves. Back in the early 1900's you could even buy a "house" from the catalog, they were the "Craftsman style" and shipped in crates to your site & then assembled by local builders. I lived in one of those houses and just the woodwork would cost you a small fortune today. And your video's are awesome, as an armature furniture refinisher I love your work always so beautifully done, keep the video's coming - Stay safe, stay well & blessings to you. ♥♥♥!
Thanks for showing the 1957 Sears catalog. I can remember my Mom, G-mother, and aunts wearing some of the dresses for many years. My G-parents would order biddies every year and would have them delivered to the farm. They came in a big box with many holes on the top but not the sides!
Angie: that was a real step back in time. I had no idea that Sears sold pets , let alone, burros. You learn something every day. Most enjoyable! Carol from California
So many good memories! I spotted my Canopied Happi-Time Sand Box! We also had a long blue davenport (not from Sears, but looked similar) that was surprisingly comfortable!
I still have some of those pieces of living room furniture in my living room today. My couch is over 60 years old and still looks great. On page 962 I have that Authentic 18th Century in my living room also. It is a cabinet with a desk and drawers and a glass cupboard with my treasures also. Thank you for going through the Sears Catalog as I used to have one every holiday time for Christmas gifts for family. I got to see lots of things I have still around my place now.
I love the feel of chenille! Back a few years ago, I did a lot of weaving and I loved using chenille! I don't have the room to set up my loom anymore and miss the almost Zen state I would reach while weaving.
Hi Angie! I was born in '56, and yes, I recognize most everything you've showed in that catalogue. Either my grandparents, aunts or my own parents had furniture that is from this catalogue. We had a Sears 'Coldspot' freezer in the basement of my childhood home all my life! That thing was still kicking when my folks sold their home in 1997 to move in to an assisted living center. I bet you didn't know that Sears Roebuck sold home kits back in the 40s. IF you can find a catalogue with home kits in it, please show that sometime. I'd love to see how they advertised them. My nephew rented a house that was a Sears Roebuck home kit when he lived in Georgia. Thanks for the memories! Love your work, btw!
My mother, who is 84, still does this today (here in good old Germany). And, seeing how much tchotchkes and thingamajigs she buys, we´re glad she still believes she has no internet and can´t do Amazon.
Putting a stinky book in a hot car in the sun can help kill mildew/mold. Wrap it up well in an airtight bag, such as a ziploc bag so that you don't transfer spores, park somewhere full sun with all the windows rolled up, and put it on the dash. Of course, I live in a hot part of California where it is already 100F, so the car easily gets to be 120F. Don't do this with valuable heirlooms. The heat can negatively affect glues, leather, etc. But books you find interesting and want to look through without a nose clip, such as barn and basement rescues, can have the odor greatly improved this way. I used to work at my university library and the librarian would send home paperbacks with staffers over the weekend for a "baking" if they had gotten stinky, or donated freebie type books she wanted to put on the free table. I'm not a professional archivist or restorer. It's just friendly advice that I have found useful for paper items that are not priceless
I was born in 1954. Sears was the place. every Christmas we were instructed to go through the wish book and mark what we would love to have. Our furniture was more end of 40s but we did have a Formica table. our house was built in 1958.
The matching blonde dining / bedroom furniture was my mother in law! Still have a matching end tables that was my mothers and I was born in 1957! My bd is this week! It was a great year! Thanks, Angie for a time travel!
Thanks for a glimpse into my chilhood! I was 10 years old when this catalog came out. My Mom probably ordered my school clothes from that same catalog edition.
Talking about the sizes made me remember cleaning out my friend’s attic. She had a pair of size 9 jeans from the early 70’s that I swear would probably be the equivalent of today’s size 3 or 5. Clothing manufacturers slowly switched sizing over the years and today’s sizes are much larger than the same numerical size from years ago. When I was a senior in high school I wore a size 5. Today at the same size I would probably be a 1 or 3. I used to pour over the Sear’s catalog dreaming about being able to buy anything I wanted. We lived way out in the country and used to order quite a lot of our clothes from the catalog.
I still have some of my grandmother's vinyl kitchen chairs. They are really comfortable. Okay, I cover them in old tee shirts in the summer to avoid sweat pools
The car is a 1957 Chevy Bel Air - Sport Coupe $2,399 2024 - $26,875 - Convertible $2,611 2024 - $29,250 Early 195O's Cost of Living 30% spent on groceries 22% spent on housing 15% spent on transportation --------------------------------------------------- 67% of your budget 37% for everything else 2024 just 11% is spent on groceries I was born in the early 1960's. This brought back memories. 1893: Richard W Sears and Alvah C Roebuck found Sears, Roebuck and Company, a mail-order business 1896: First large general catalog 1925: The first Sears retail store opens in Chicago
@@lovealwaysmom Actually, I think the car is a 1957 Thunderbird. The hood insignia looks like a bird to me and the grille is wrong for a '57 Chev. Nice to see flannel shirts never go out of style!😆
WHAT TOTAL FUN! I was 10 years old and used to pour over the Christmas catalogue marking everything I wanted Sana to bring me....LOLOL
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I was 5 and even into my late teens-early twenties I enjoyed looking at all the catalogs from Sears, JCPenney and Montgomery Wards!
My older sister mail ordered Rhode Island Red baby chicks for a 4H project, before my time, I’m guessing 1964. Use to love Sears “Wishbook” which we’d get in the mail this time of the year! Great video!!
Me too!
Same! I was little kid in the 70s.
Sears Catalogs were the Amazon of their day! The best thing as a kid (in the 70's) was to get this or a JC Penney one and just go through it slowly, page by page, wishing you could buy all the fun stuff!
And circling or dog earring the pages of the items you wanted most. ❤️
I grew up with a lot of this furniture. My parents' generation bought this stuff in the early/mid 60s. By the time I can remember, most of it was being moved into newly renovated "rec rooms" in the basement. I spent my teen years in the 80s hanging out on those couches (or chesterfields, as we called them then). They was built to last.
The tailored men's coat was made to last as well. My father wore the same "good" coat my whole life. He was a labourer, so he didn't wear it daily but even his daily work jackets lasted years and were "made over" by my mom before they were replaced. The purchases were an investment for decades of use, not one year.
Thanks for sharing this. It was a real blast from the past. My husband is more shocked about the motorcycles than the burro. Lol.
You're very welcome!
Those DEFINITELY the GOOD OL DAYS
Yes, I recognize some pieces my parents owned. Getting that Sears & Roebuck order was so exciting! I can trace most of my childhood clothes to that source!
Mom used to mend Dad’s socks. She had one dress I remember for years. It became a house dress. It was faded and rough around the edges but we weren’t rich. We lived in a 28’ trailer. It was 8 feet wide. Roaches were a nightly battle. My dad loved to spray them. I slept on the couch from 5-16 when we finally got a home. We had one of the first black & white tv’s with test patterns before the station signed on for the day. My dad would drive us nuts by constantly twisting knobs in the back “to make it (the picture) better. It would roll, zig zag lines, blurry, etc. oh the good old days. I’m 80!
Sears Roebuck! Yes, memories of pouring over that catalog year after year, especially at Christmas and for outfits. My mother's first job was taking orders at Sears Roebuck, early 1940s, the building in the Fenway/Kenmore Square area, Boston.
Fun fun fun. My kids and I used to dream thru these things!! Never had the money to buy..but..what a way to " window shop"!!
Thank you so much for watching! 😊
I loved this. I have gone thru Sears & Roebuck catalogs online to find clothes I used to own as a kid, bikes, a tent, living room furniture, fabric, mom's crinkly brown Kenmore sewing machine with beautiful chrome trim that my sister and I grew up to use in high school in the 60s. People didn't take as many photos then as now and US military families with large families like ours took even less, so that is how I find past memories to document. God bless people like you who share resources that we otherwise would not find and get to see. In fact, RUclips is a fabulous example of social media when it comes to clever and resourceful people like you, sharing your expertise, as well as giving others joy.
Oh wow! Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! ❤️
I still have my pink chenille bedspread from the 60's, I'm 68 now. I don't use it but saved it all these years for some strange reason! 😂
Back then Chenille was far better than the Chenille u buy today & cost triple the price 😢
I’m 64 and my sister and mine were purple to go with the green carpet. Mum didn’t keep much it always went to someone that needed it. I remember some of the furniture pieces, vinyl seats were the worst in summer your skin would stick to it.
You just brought me back to my days, I remembered a lot of stuff, dining set, radio's, etc. Not furniture but yes continue with the magazines, can't wait for the next.
Ahh, thise were the good ole days for sure! I'm 73 we lived in the country and the Sears catalog was the only way we shopped! We would argue over who got first dibs on looking first! This episode brought back priceless memories. Thanks Angie awesome video! 😊❤
You're very welcome Pam! 😁
Chenille bedspreads! Telephone tables! Lovely to see all this stuff from my childhood.😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😀
That was so much fun. I certainly did browse those old catalogues, and dream along with my mom. I was a kid in the 50s, so that's all I could do -- dream.🤩 We were poor farmers in Manitoba at the time.
I think that's what most of us did!!
I love this look back. The Sears catalog was a memorable part of my growing up.
Mine too! 😁
That was very cool! Thanks😀
You're very welcome! ☺️
Growing up in the 50s and 60s, we always waited in great anticipation for the Autumn Sears and JC Penny catalogs.
We were in Canada so we didn’t get jc penny regularly, BUT my mom always got the jc penny wish book at Christmas because I was OBSESSED with Breyer Horses. :-)
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery As a teenager, the fashion part of both catalogs were of the greatest interest to me. I do think Sears had a wider variety of items though. I'm in Nebraska and we had Sears and Penny's stores as well as a couple other furniture stores where my parents would purchase things. I don't remember them getting furniture via the catalog, but they may have and just picked it up at the store. Lots of memories there.
The Christmas Wish Book!!! After the holidays were over, they got put out in the Out House for TP....lol
Sears catalog was HIGH entertainment back in the day, my mom was a bookkeeper for them in the 60's.
We checked the mail daily in anticipation!!
I was born in 1958. As you can imagine everything you showed was familiar. When I was very young, toddler and up, sitting down and looking at the pictures in a Sears catalogue was the best rainy-day thing to do. Ah, the memories. Thank you!
You're welcome! ☺️
Loved those catalogs
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I remember all of it I was born in 1954. My grandparents never got rid of their furniture. They kept things great condition!
Love those old bedspreads.
My parents had the red dining table with the extra leaves, but not sure if they had more than 6 chairs. I have the table now, and 4 of the chairs.
I enjoy your commentary along with viewing the catalog.
Thank you for sharing.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Pedal pushers were just below the knee. So your legs could bend easier when you rode your bike.
I married in 1957, so, yeah. Dreamed about a lot of things I wanted for my home.
Loved this trip down memory lane, Angie.❤
Thank you so much for watching! 😊
Always looked forward to the catalogs arriving at the house. Also you used to be able to buy (1908-1942) a house (kit) from Sears. Fun fact…When a $1.1M craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797 or today the equivalent of $32,000 (2023 inflation). Amazing!
There are a lot of these homes in Lansing,Michigan.
That towel would last forever. I met a woman while swimming. She used a towel that was 50 years old and it looked better than my 5 year old towel.
They don't make things like they used to!
Somewhere along the line they figured out that if something was TOO well made, those big companies would go out of business eventually. Also, the great depression had just happened along with WW2. Talk about the world changing! Modernization started making people more aware of what they didn't have. And the rest is history, I guess!
Corporate leadership became greedy and wanted more and more money. To do this, they started making things cheaper, which meant less quality, but there wasn't a savings to the consumer. Planned obsolescence was put in place. It is entirely possible to make products that are made to last and have quality and style. It isn't a problem of running out of customers. But they wanted larger and larger profits. Greed drives this machine. Not the consumer.
You aren't kidding! Towels have gone downhill. I have some old-ish Cannon towels that are still hanging in there. They really don't make them like they used to!
I love your "flip throughs".
I'm so glad! 🙂
I remember the Canadian Sears catalogue when I was a kid in the 70s. I’m not sure if mum bought much through it or if she just liked browsing too! I wish I remembered a wider range of items but being a kid I was purely focussed on the clothes, bikes, play equipment etc. That brief glimpse of the plastic covered lounge set did remind me of how common it was to have clear vinyl covers on couches and how odd and sweaty they were to sit on 😝
They'd stick to the backs of your legs if you were wearing shorts!
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery That peeling sensation/sound as you stood up. Same with smooth vinyl seats in cars. Nostalgia is great and all but some things are better left in the past 😂
Born in 55, I remember so many of the things. A true trip back in time! The furniture was horrendously uncomfortable. We sat on the floor! The pay was less than a dollar an hr back then, imagine trying g to live on that in 2024!
I was born in 1954 and remember so many of these items also! I also remember my Dad saying everything he had except for his wife and kids came from Sears and Robuck catalog!! 😊
They sold houses back in the day…. My house that I bought 25 years ago was built in 1931 . Sears archives sent me a copy of the ad for my house in the Sears catalog
That is awesome!
In addition to house kits, they also sold everything to build your own design. Part of our house, built in 1913, came from the Sears Homebuilder's catalog. The staircase, window and door trim, door sets, etc.
The houses from Sears were “pre-fabricated” in that the lumber was pre-cut, windows,doors, bathroom and kitchen appliances and blue prints/instructions were shipped by rail.
I also wanted to say thanks for the tour- I love these things from my childhood. One thing I remember is most of the “stay at home” moms wore those shirtwaist house dresses (my mom worked in an office). They were so neat.
My youngest son was born in a Sears house. My husbands grandfather built it.
Always a fun watch, thanks for sharing. It's cool how much of the technology of that day hasn't changed much 70 years later. If you exclude advances of electronics, the gas stoves, lawn mowers, washer and dryers, etc. all run on basically the same mechanics as today.
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
I loved those catalogs when I was a kid. I couldn't wait for my grandmother to be finished with hers. We used them for paper dolls. My grandma called them her "wish books"
That's probably Velma's order form. Charles was a bus mechanic in Delevan, NY in 1950. She would have been 28 when she filled that out, and Charles, who was about 36, was probably at work at the garage. He was in the Civilian Conservation Corps at one time, and was a firefighter out west. He also served in the Army Air Corps during World War 2, while she was a homemaker. They went on to have 6 kids, 21 grandkids, and 10 great-grandkids. Just in case you were wondering.....
Wait- you actually know who this might have been!!?? That is really cool!!
@@TranscendFurnitureGallery actually, no......genealogy is one of my hobbies, and sometimes a quick census search/obit look up can tell you a lot about someone. I'm all about history in any format. (and I currently own that drum table from page 950)
Amazing none the less- thank you. :-)
@kasketchayne I'm curious where you came up with Delevan, NY. I lived right up the road in Yorkshire, NY for 26 years!
@@kathywright15 i just looked at the order form she was showing.....then I looked up towns that start with "D" in New York, and Delevan matched the best. then went to the census for 1950 and looked up Charles Spencer, and there they were. ;) (I volunteer for a group that helps find long lost family member/adoptees birth families, so I know how to navigate databases like that)
A resonate spa with me.I was born 2 years before this book came out so I pretty much grew up with a lot of this stuff.Thank you, it was a step back in time.Very very nice Very nostalgic .
You're most welcome!
Absolutely love it when you do these videos! I collect old magazines and catalogs, too!❤
So do I! Have a couple of replicas of Sears from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Also have a few movie magazines from the 40s and 50s.
@@auapplemac2441 I have about 100 old LIFE magazines and about a dozen old catalogs. I just love looking through them on a rainy afternoon!
@@lucyjosie Sounds lovely. I also like rainy afternoons to cuddle with an old movie or an old magazine/catalogue. I've always been kind of an old sole. Someone older once told me he thought I was 20 going on 30 because I knew things that were beyond my chronological age. He meant it as a compliment.
Very fun, I think it may be so cool to match any of your work with any catalog you can! Silly but could be incredibly fun
The Christmas catalogue was my favorite. I would play the game if I were rich what would I buy for myself and for my best friends . So much fun.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
OMG the phone tables!!!! We had all this stuff growing up😂❤
I'm glad I could take you down memory lane! 😊
Love these Sears catalog perusals! What amazes me is the inflation calculator on the clothes - because our clothes now are inexpensive, but they are very cheap. Clothes from the 50’s & 60’s can still be worn if they were stored away from the elements. Furniture seems on par with equivalent quality level today.
From my childhood - the toy section was so much fun at Christmas!!!
Considering today chicks are shipped in boxes via mail, I’m not surprised Sears sold animals back in the day.
Thanks for another entertaining video! ❤
You're very welcome!
Holy f***! You could really buy anything and everything from Sears' catalogues!
You really could!!
These catalogues were revolutionary at the time, although not an option for anyone who wasn't well-off. They were absolutely the Amazon analog of their time -- you could get nearly anything from one source.
I was chuckling to myself a few times while you were going through it, though -- I have NEVER seen the word "velocipede" in anything but a Kate Beaton comic, so that was a fun one! (BTW, "pedal pushers" were pants that ended just below the knee and were designed to use while you biked, so that you didn't get oily bike chain smears on the sides of your pant legs.)
And once again, my aversion to mid-century modern style is evident while I'm watching. The only stuff I liked was all labelled "traditional!" The mid-century modern stuff looks like a form of steampunk to me in the old definition of steampunk: "yesterday's tomorrow." I know that lots of people like it though, and I love watching you put your artistic spin on it in your videos.
BTW, one of the basics of women's clothing back then was a girdle -- there's a reason those women are all extremely wasp-waisted. I've been thin my whole life, and I couldn't even fit into that stuff without cinching in, either. I'd kill for a couple of those men's wool coats, though. Men's wool coats have big pockets, and the sleeves are always nice and long!
Agree with you 100% on the animal concerns -- puppy mills really took off with that sort of thing. Any time you turn a living body into money, bad things happen. 😕
Thank you so much for watching!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for that walk back down memory lane! I was born in 54 and recognize sooooo many things in this catalog either that we had or saw at other people's homes. My bedroom set is the white veneer and I almost spit out my coffee when I saw that. It was my parent's that was handed down to me.
I'm glad I could take you down memory lane!! 😀
One of the most fun things I ever did with my mom was a tour of model homes. It was back in the late 60s. The decor was bold and exciting. This tour of Sears catalog took me back. So much fun.
It WAS the “Christmas catalog “ for us kids. I remember it well. Both my brother and I had pages marked for stuff we wanted. My parents had a lot of that kind of furniture in the house I grew up in. In fact the original yellow Formica table is still there and my parents are long gone. My brother has the house and it’s like a museum to the 50’s
We did that too with the Sears Wish Book! Pouring over the pages to see what we wanted that year!
Being born in 1951 I remember most of these items. My mum used to dress up to the nines when going out, Hat gloves, high heel shoes and perfect makeup and hair 😂. Ah the simple life 😊
Thank you so much for watching! 😊
I remember grandma would sit my very young children on the kitchen floor with the sears Christmas catalog, (while grandma prepared dinner) to keep them occupied and they were so involved with that catalog for hours! Special memories
I'm glad I could bring them back for you! 😊
I grew up looking through the Sears and JC Penney catalogs, although in a later decade, but this nostalgic stroll through the catalog was an incredible walk down memory lane. Thank you so much for doing such a unique and special episode
You're very welcome!! ☺️
That was fun. I was born in 1957. I remember most the furniture as family and friends had a lot of it. In fact the sleeper sofa shown stayed in my family and I had it in my first apartment after I graduated from college, using a slip cover. I didn't remember that the catalogues had live animals. Everything else yes. Thank you for walking us through the memories! 💖💖💖💖💖💖
You're very welcome! ☺️
No power suppose to be conserving batteries, but a transcend furniture video comes on. South Carolina here.
Hugs.
I've seen videos of the devastation my heart goes out to everyone, glad you're safe! Hugs from Nova Scotia! 🫂
Oh goodness- hope you and your family are safe! Thinking of everyone impacted by Helene. ❤️❤️
Thank you. @@TranscendFurnitureGallery
I hope you're safe!
I’ve always been an animal lover. While I do remember having many of these items in our house growing up, it was the pet section that held my interest. It fascinated me that you could order anything from AKC registered dogs to raccoons, and even exotics like monkeys and ocelots. We never did, of course, but I spent many hours just dreaming.
My grandmother had the yellow kitchen table and chairs. Memories. 😊
I’m late to this party, but oh, my god did this take me back. I was born in 1964, my brothers in 1956 and 1957. My mother worked for Sears from when she married in 1954 until the early 70s. EVERYTHING in our house was from Sears since we got a discount. All of our clothes, furniture, my dad’s Craftsman tools, our dishes, flatware, towels - it all came from Sears. I still have all my dad’s hand tools and power tools. The power tools are still working after 60+ years. Thanks for the trip back in time!
You're very welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Thanks, Angie! I loved this trip down pre-memory lane! Because of my own interest, I would've loved to pause longer at the vacuum cleaners, but I know everybody else would yawn. Fun to see it all!
You're very welcome! ☺️
*Wow what an amazing find..... thats something to keep.... or put on the coffee table in the lounge as a talking piece to look thru.🙂.*
Thanks so much for watching!
Always enjoy these videos. I'm 67 so I grew up with a lot of this stuff. I remember the chrome edged table and I still have my parents matching bookcase headboard with matching dresser, which has a very large, detachable mirror.
Little bit of trivia: The first Sears catalog was introduced in 1893 but only sold watches. The reason Sears started catalog shopping was because of the Black population, they weren't allowed to shop in white's only stores and their stores didn't offer nice products, so the Sears catalog gave them access to those nice products, probably why they also offered livestock.
The reason the mail order catalog came into existence was the ever expanding migration westward with the railroads, though your first sentence was correct.
www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/history.htm
I was born in 1957 so this was great! In fact, my parents still have a bedroom set and sofa bed with matching chair of this vintage. I remember a lot of these items from childhood. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. ❤
You're most welcome! 🤗
I enjoy the Sears catalog book Angie I’m from 1959 so I can relate to all the wonderful things that catalog had to offer back then thank you for thanking me back to memory lane I enjoyed it 👍❤️✌️
You're very welcome! ☺️
What fun! Thank you for this video.
You're welcome! ☺️
Wow! I was born in 1957 so I grew up around a lot of that furniture, clothes, bedding, etc. Petal pushers were like capris pants. You were right that the furniture (sofas) weren’t as comfortable as today’s sofas. I remember the material on some of the sofas as kind of this scratchy, “nylon” feeling stuff. The wide arm chairs on the sofas were comfortable though! That is where I would sit after all the adults took all the seats in the room. And I can’t believe they sold animals!! 🤮
@@lizhoward9754 the sofa and chairs weren't so long in the seat (portion from your butt to the back of your knees. My feet could actually touch the floor. I'm short 5'3". Now I pretend I'm Edith Ann.
So many different kinds too!
I was born in 57 as well. I agree about the material on the sofas. My family had one the sleeper sofas forever, in fact I had it in my first apartment after I graduated from college. It's really a trip down memory lane. I laughed out loud seeing the TV trays. I also didn't remember about selling animals. I was horrified.
Yep, I remember seeing chickens for sale in the catalog. Live chickens.
@@Viaductvienotachicken you can actually still get live chicks in the mail! I worked at a postal facility in North Dakota about 5 years ago, and at a certain point of the summer the whole warehouse was filled with the “cheep cheep cheep!” of chicks in the “live animals” shipping section. They are very careful with transport and making the journey as fast as possible, though.
I loved this video so much! To me those were the good ole days. What a treasure owning an old Sears Catalog is, I miss those days even though I was born in 1955 I am an old soul and would have loved to be a 1950's housewife and mother.
Thanks!! I never would have believed that I could enjoy watching a RUclips video of someone leafing through a catalogue...but it was FUN 😀. Comparing the price to today's dollars partly explains why our parents and grandparents didn't have as much "stuff" as we all do today 😲
"Washable plastic covers" for the furniture 🤣I DO remember THOSE !!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
i love these vintage catalogs. i have one from the summer of 1966
I think pedal pushers are like today's Capri pants. I also they were made for women to be able to ride a bike without getting their pant legs caught in the chain. Not positive, but that's what I think I heard.
Yup, that's what I was told.
Petal pushers were also "Jackie O" look. Sleek, stylish, modern.
Yes, what we called pedal pushers back then are like capris these days. Some slight differences in length.
They were also called "clam diggers", and prevented the cuffs of your pants from getting wet while walking on the beach.
@@Zardox2 oh yeah, I forgot they called them that too!
That was a cool little trip way back. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Do you ever feel sometimes like you were born in the wrong era? 😂 i loved this flip through.❤❤ its super interesting that alot of the furniture came unfinished!! Ordering pets from a catalog hmmmm... thats different!! Lol
This journey was wonderful Angie. I was one years old growing up in Greece in 1957. I was in Canada in 1966 to 1969 and I remember the furniture my parents bought for our first home there. It was not much different than what the catalogue included. Thank you very much for the trip down memory lane. ❤
You're very welcome! ☺️
That was a trip down memory lane. Thanks
You're welcome! ☺️
So much fun! I recognize many, many of these items! Things back then seemed to last forever and we (siblings and cousins) got lots of stuff passed on and passed down and passed along. Not just clothes, but also bikes, roller skates and swing sets. I think the quality of a lot of these things was maybe better than it is now.🤷🏼♀️
My aunt and uncle had a German Shepherd when I was a kid. My uncle always said the dog came from Sears. He worked for Sears for a long time so I just thought he was joking. Maybe he wasn’t.🧐 I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks, Angie!🌸
He might not have been!! You're very welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Angie; thanks for the tour down memory lane. My father owned an Advertising Art & Photography studio in Chicago, Illinois - his company did the majority of the art & photo's in that catalog. It was so much fun watching all the activity and then the party when the first issues came out. Sadly, that company no longer exists. Like the catalog, it went the way of Sears themselves. Back in the early 1900's you could even buy a "house" from the catalog, they were the "Craftsman style" and shipped in crates to your site & then assembled by local builders. I lived in one of those houses and just the woodwork would cost you a small fortune today.
And your video's are awesome, as an armature furniture refinisher I love your work always so beautifully done, keep the video's coming - Stay safe, stay well & blessings to you. ♥♥♥!
I definitely will Nancy! I'm very glad you enjoyed it!! 😊
Thanks for showing the 1957 Sears catalog. I can remember my Mom, G-mother, and aunts wearing some of the dresses for many years. My G-parents would order biddies every year and would have them delivered to the farm. They came in a big box with many holes on the top but not the sides!
Angie: that was a real step back in time. I had no idea that Sears sold pets , let alone, burros. You learn something every day. Most enjoyable! Carol from California
Wild isn't it Carol??
Fascinating, I love these trips back in time!
Thanks so much for watching! 😊
What a hoot! I really enjoyed this video. Not every video has to be about furniture. Just most of them. 🤣🤣🤣
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Enjoyed the stroll through the catalog and saw many things we had in our home back in the day. Thanks for the memories!
You're very welcome! ☺️
I like the spudnick chandeliers , and wall clocks from the 60’s. Too cool.
My grandma has the secretary desk/bookcase at 11:40. Complete with the chair! This video was so cool!
So many good memories! I spotted my Canopied Happi-Time Sand Box! We also had a long blue davenport (not from Sears, but looked similar) that was surprisingly comfortable!
Davenport, now there's a word I haven't heard in years!! Not many of us left that even know what that is!!
Yup! Recognize all that! It’s basically a vision of my childhood.
Thank you so much!
Thanks! That was fun! And I saw my entire house go by: furniture, stove, etc.
You're very welcome! ☺️
I still have some of those pieces of living room furniture in my living room today. My couch is over 60 years old and still looks great. On page 962 I have that Authentic 18th Century in my living room also. It is a cabinet with a desk and drawers and a glass cupboard with my treasures also. Thank you for going through the Sears Catalog as I used to have one every holiday time for Christmas gifts for family. I got to see lots of things I have still around my place now.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching! 😊
I was in college then, so everything looks pretty normal to me. A wonderful time.
Ohhh, those chennille bedspreads. I had one on my bed as a child.
I still have a hot pink one from the late 60's!
I love the feel of chenille! Back a few years ago, I did a lot of weaving and I loved using chenille! I don't have the room to set up my loom anymore and miss the almost Zen state I would reach while weaving.
My grandfather’s house had a lot of that stuff. The sectional, square living room furniture. Oh my.
Hi Angie! I was born in '56, and yes, I recognize most everything you've showed in that catalogue. Either my grandparents, aunts or my own parents had furniture that is from this catalogue. We had a Sears 'Coldspot' freezer in the basement of my childhood home all my life! That thing was still kicking when my folks sold their home in 1997 to move in to an assisted living center. I bet you didn't know that Sears Roebuck sold home kits back in the 40s. IF you can find a catalogue with home kits in it, please show that sometime. I'd love to see how they advertised them. My nephew rented a house that was a Sears Roebuck home kit when he lived in Georgia. Thanks for the memories! Love your work, btw!
Yes I did actually know Sears sold house kits. What a wild time that was! Thank you so much for watching!
So enjoyed going thru this catalogue. Everything looks familiar! If not us then Aunts & grandparents. Thank you for a trip down memory lane 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
I used to write out my order from Sears, Montgomery Wards or JCPENNEY on their forms then phone it in. Yes, I'm that old.😅
My mother, who is 84, still does this today (here in good old Germany). And, seeing how much tchotchkes and thingamajigs she buys, we´re glad she still believes she has no internet and can´t do Amazon.
Yes, we also did that.
Me, too!
@@reginapopihn9853 Where in Germany, if it is not rude to ask? I was living in Stuttgart when this catalog came out! (Army brat, you know)
@@MSjackiesaunders Ruhr Area. I have an aunt in Stuttgart
Wonderful trip back in time !!! Many things looked familiar , especially the bathrooms !!! ❤️🦘
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was born in 1961, so much of this furniture we had in our house. A few pieces still exist today. Mom loved mid-century furniture.
So cool, and I really like the design for example of the sofas. The ladies clothes were also really very pretty back then.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Fun video! I love vintage catalogs but I"m allergic to them too! thanks for flipping the pages! 🥰
I'm glad I could help! 😊
Putting a stinky book in a hot car in the sun can help kill mildew/mold. Wrap it up well in an airtight bag, such as a ziploc bag so that you don't transfer spores, park somewhere full sun with all the windows rolled up, and put it on the dash. Of course, I live in a hot part of California where it is already 100F, so the car easily gets to be 120F. Don't do this with valuable heirlooms. The heat can negatively affect glues, leather, etc. But books you find interesting and want to look through without a nose clip, such as barn and basement rescues, can have the odor greatly improved this way. I used to work at my university library and the librarian would send home paperbacks with staffers over the weekend for a "baking" if they had gotten stinky, or donated freebie type books she wanted to put on the free table. I'm not a professional archivist or restorer. It's just friendly advice that I have found useful for paper items that are not priceless
Great tip thankyou!!
Thank you so much for the information! 😊
I loved looking through the catalogues in the 90's when I was a kid. I kind of wish I'd saved some to flip through.
It's such a treat to be able to get a glimpse of the past this way!
I was born in 1954. Sears was the place. every Christmas we were instructed to go through the wish book and mark what we would love to have. Our furniture was more end of 40s but we did have a Formica table. our house was built in 1958.
Thank you so much for watching!
The matching blonde dining / bedroom furniture was my mother in law! Still have a matching end tables that was my mothers and I was born in 1957! My bd is this week! It was a great year! Thanks, Angie for a time travel!
Happy Birthday Cindi!!!!
The clock radios! I had one in my bedroom as a teen in the 70's!
Thanks for a glimpse into my chilhood! I was 10 years old when this catalog came out. My Mom probably ordered my school clothes from that same catalog edition.
You're incredibly welcome!
Talking about the sizes made me remember cleaning out my friend’s attic. She had a pair of size 9 jeans from the early 70’s that I swear would probably be the equivalent of today’s size 3 or 5. Clothing manufacturers slowly switched sizing over the years and today’s sizes are much larger than the same numerical size from years ago. When I was a senior in high school I wore a size 5. Today at the same size I would probably be a 1 or 3. I used to pour over the Sear’s catalog dreaming about being able to buy anything I wanted. We lived way out in the country and used to order quite a lot of our clothes from the catalog.
Thank you for this. I used to enjoy looking at these catalogs when I was young. I do remember my aunt having a limed oak veneer bedroom set.😊
You're so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
My Dad would always remind me that salaries were a lot smaller then
I still have some of my grandmother's vinyl kitchen chairs. They are really comfortable. Okay, I cover them in old tee shirts in the summer to avoid sweat pools
Your legs would stick to the seats if you wore shorts!
@@lauralake7430 for some reason, the texture of the vinyl was different and we didn't stick to them. I
I love how the photos of framed art are in black and white.
The narrative is going smoothly until . . . @4:28 her voice becomes a whisper. "Really nice car!"
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The car is a 1957 Chevy Bel Air
- Sport Coupe $2,399
2024 - $26,875
- Convertible $2,611
2024 - $29,250
Early 195O's Cost of Living
30% spent on groceries
22% spent on housing
15% spent on transportation
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67% of your budget
37% for everything else
2024 just 11% is spent on groceries
I was born in the early 1960's. This brought back memories.
1893: Richard W Sears and Alvah C Roebuck found Sears, Roebuck and Company, a mail-order business
1896: First large general catalog
1925: The first Sears retail store opens in Chicago
@@lovealwaysmom Actually, I think the car is a 1957 Thunderbird. The hood insignia looks like a bird to me and the grille is wrong for a '57 Chev.
Nice to see flannel shirts never go out of style!😆