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Apr 8, 2020
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Pick-Six Coug
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As i recall, that particular photo was taken in Orem in a studio for Sears.
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ABC4 is doing a story on the Sears Catalog. Who remembers them?
Malathion
4/5/20 10:18pm
Sears catalog? Never heard of it.
Ragnar Danneskjold
4/5/20 10:18pm
Are they not around anymore? I love the Christmas catalog.
mrphotogenic
4/5/20 10:20pm
I believe canceled in 1993.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:21pm
Really. I knew I hadn't seen one in a few years but didn't think it was that
mrphotogenic
4/5/20 10:23pm
Yep 1993. Looks like they laid off 50,000 people too.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:27pm
That was how I chose what I wanted for Christmas as a kid
newbie
4/5/20 10:20pm
Agreed. It had my wish list in it.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:22pm
I'm a hack
777
4/5/20 10:29pm
Wasn't it called like the dream book or something? My Christmas go to also.
dave
4/5/20 11:15pm
The Wish Book
mrphotogenic
4/5/20 11:20pm
Bingo!
dave
4/5/20 11:25pm
Ackchyually, that was Montgomery Ward's catalog.
LittleTex
4/6/20 3:11pm
Bless you! COVID 19?
BYU Grounds
4/6/20 3:13pm
Us too. Sadly, I never got what I wanted from the Sears catalog...
m0resn0w
4/6/20 9:25am
I do and I am not that old
byusage
4/5/20 10:21pm
TNT's mom took them away from him
TNT
4/5/20 10:22pm
That explains the love for pinball machines.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:23pm
Ogling the pinball machine models?
No touching
4/5/20 10:24pm
She must’ve had a lie detector machine
kcca
4/5/20 10:42pm
Fought over with siblings it to check out new toys in the back.
zephyr
4/5/20 10:22pm
Same. 6 boys in my family all fighting over the catalog to make our list.
O Gaucho
4/5/20 10:26pm
The Wonder Years
zephyr
4/5/20 10:30pm
Nobody wants to get it second, that's for dang sure.
shimmy
4/5/20 10:31pm
One year I found a Big Wheel circled in the catalog. That Christmas, that is
Oceanographer
4/5/20 10:38pm
Oh man, that was Christmas shopping when I was a kid
TwinsRight
4/5/20 10:23pm
It was a big deal to pick up packages. We’d get drugstore candy too.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:25pm
What's funny is Sears should've been Amazon but they were stupid and didn't move to the internet.
byuluvr
4/5/20 10:24pm
Yep. They quit right when the internet was getting going.
gwalker
4/5/20 10:26pm
The head of the catalogue division basically killed any attempt to move to the
Blue Print
4/5/20 10:47pm
Do you have a source for that?
ChiefBeef
4/6/20 8:56am
My brothers and I beat each other up for it. We wanted to check out all the
WDaddy
4/5/20 10:27pm
Yeah, us too.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:35pm
That's how Christmas shopping was done. Kids circled their favorite things and
777
4/5/20 10:28pm
We are gradually forgetting Sears, not just the catalog
Heath Squashwell
4/5/20 10:29pm
Oh yeah. Who remembers Blue Stamps?
byujdmba
4/5/20 10:35pm
I remember green stamps
LaserCoug
4/6/20 6:36am
My dad was general counsel for Sears, I grew up on everything Sears. The name of
BYUFBDAD
4/5/20 10:36pm
At BYU I had a blue Sears card, which told anyone at Sears that I was a big deal
BYUFBDAD
4/5/20 10:39pm
I worked at Sears in college. Remember this well. Enjoy
hitechcpa
4/6/20 12:34am
As i recall, that particular photo was taken in Orem in a studio for Sears.
Pick-Six Coug
4/8/20 8:59pm
Sears was where my parents shopped, but we got the Spiegel catalog too and
Thrill
4/5/20 10:36pm
Ah yes, I remember well.
Malathion
4/5/20 10:57pm
I worked for the Sears telecatalog center in Provo when it opened.
StantonMac
4/5/20 10:37pm
Dad grew up in 1930s had Sears and Montgomery Wards so wouldn’t run out TP
Osteotome
4/5/20 10:51pm
Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs were
67Regent
4/6/20 12:06am
When I was 9 or 10 my best friend’s older brother got us to complete a series
adrock
4/6/20 12:34am
RE: ABC4 is doing a story on the Sears Catalog. Who remembers them?
Mister P
4/6/20 7:35am
The Christmas catalog was great! That's how our parents knew what to get for ..
BYU Grounds
4/6/20 12:33pm
The OGs had Victoria Secret.
messi
4/6/20 4:34pm
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