Want a blast from the past. Vintage Christmas Wish Books. (1941-2017)

[FirewithFire]

Christmas Catalogs - Catalogs & Wishbooks

163 Vintage Christmas Catalogs & Holiday Wish Books with 85,171 total catalog pages from Sears, Montgomery Ward and JCPenney over the years.

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It's crazy how things change across the decades. Everything from the style, to the toys, to what's available, to the price. Seeing the toy section brings back some memories.

How about a gun delivered to your door for $30. lol

 

[Ron Mehico]

Wow - that no 4 toy (green with yellow saws in his hands and shoulders) was what I got when I was 6. Thought it was the coolest thing ever. I was actually talking about it to my 6 year old son (who got 150 things) two nights ago as he was asking me what I got when I was his age. Pretty wild coincidence.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

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Merry Christmas, have a corrupt sheriffs guns

 

[March 22]

Was always excited to get this bad boy

 

[bnewt]

Used to spend countless hours looking at the sears and jc penny Christmas catalogs as a kid. Couldn't wait for them to come in the mail

 

[HymanKaplan]

 

[wildcatwelder]

Oh man, I remember getting that under the tree one year ; one of the best gifts ever for a boy back then. So much fun.

 

[HymanKaplan]

HOURS and hours playing that thing. Passing was a near impossibility though. LOL

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Did anyone actually own this? I knew one person that claimed to have it but I never actually saw it in person

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

 

[BC_Wader]

MY BIL ordered a 1979 Sears Christmas wish book a few years back. We look at every year since. Brings back a lot of memories from having a lot of that stuff. If you were a kid during the Atari 2600 era, I wouldn't trade those days for nothing.

 

[funKYcat75]

Man, I really wish they had Best Buy flyers from 94-95.

Anyway, I got Verbot one year. He didn’t hardly do anything, but dammit I had a robot.

 

[FirewithFire]

lol, I had one of those. Steelers vs Rams. I would get so pissed when I would adjust the little dial thing on the bottom and my running back would just run in a circle. Lost most of those little foam footballs too trying to kick field goals. 🤨 Still have that thing somewhere.

 

[FirewithFire]

Did anyone actually own this? I knew one person that claimed to have it but I never actually saw it in person

My friend had one of those. The thing was so huge it took up like 3/4 of his bedroom floor. He had a Skystriker and one of those other Crosswing things too.

 

[FirewithFire]

Man, I really wish they had Best Buy flyers from 94-95.

Anyway, I got Verbot one year. He didn’t hardly do anything, but dammit I had a robot.

Just a heads up. That site is a bitch for copy / paste. You can see your IP in the bottom of that photo. Might want to crop that out.