Let us look back a yesteryear's catalog offerings

[SlaveToTheGrind]

1939 Sears Fall and Winter

 

[Maister]

Nearly $2,000 for a new house?! Outrageous! If one were getting paid a princely sum of, say, $5 every week-day, it would take nearly 18 months salary to pay for that house, if you can believe that! Makes one want to dispose of the image in a waste-basket.

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

Sears, Summer 1971.

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

Sears 1982..."models, just act natural."

 

[Maister]

 

[The Terminator]

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[SlaveToTheGrind]

Summer 1976. The 70s were not a great time for fashion...or cars...or architecture.

 

[Maister]

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I don't know why, but I suddenly have an inexplicable urge to catch a steamer to Paris and sign a treaty.

 

[SlaveToTheGrind]

I don't know why, but I suddenly have an inexplicable urge to catch a steamer to Paris and sign a treaty.

Or decide where you next railroad expansion will take place and how many people you will forcibly remove.

 

[Dan]

From the Fall 1997 Heathkit catalog.

Handheld, If you have the hands of an NFL quarterback.

 

[The Terminator]

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Consumers Guide : Catalogue No. 104 : Spring 1897 : Sears, Roebuck and Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

702 p., illus., 27.6 cm, trade catalog

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[SlaveToTheGrind]

From the Fall 1997 Heathkit catalog.

Handheld, If you have the hands of an NFL quarterback.

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1977?

1960 Sears. $468 2026 dollars for the top clock/radio

 

[Maister]

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Consumers Guide : Catalogue No. 104 : Spring 1897 : Sears, Roebuck and Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

702 p., illus., 27.6 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Air rifles? You'll shoot your eye out, kid

 

[The Terminator]

Air rifles? You'll shoot your eye out, kid

In the 19th Century, the risk was worth the reward