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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 05:43 PM
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I found an old 1928 Montgomery Ward catalog today.
It's not worth a whole lot, but what great stuff in it! The toys, especially. There are lots of Effanbee dolls ($1 - $5), trains, pedal cars and a pedal airplane (most expensive $24.50). You could buy an entire bedroom suite for $84.00. There are even precut houses in it starting at $20.00 a month! The clothes are great, too. You could buy everything you need from this thing and almost all of it was made in this country. (I did find a stuffed "growling" bear from Europe for $5.00 - Steiff???) If only I could go on a shopping spree with this catalog . . .
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 07:58 PM
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1. You should keep it as a reference
The Wards and Sears catalogs were truly reflections of daily life back in the day.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 01:39 AM
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2. I've been in one of those homes ...
...where everything to build it was ordered from Sears. It was a beautiful old prairie craftsman style home from the early 1900s. Amazing.
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pipoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 09:07 AM
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3. They are fun to look at for sure
a lot of them were used up in the outhouse.

I have old wholesale hardware company catalogs which are very good too, they sold all things durable usually 1500-3000 pages.
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-17-08 11:00 AM
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4. Cool!
What a neat find!
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