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Posted: 3/26/2017 7:16:47 AM EDT
Found a 1968 Sears catalog that I bought at a garage sale a while back. Now them were salad days.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 7:19:56 AM EDT
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I remember when there used to be one in every bathroom next to the crapper.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 7:23:20 AM EDT
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I remember when there used to be one in every bathroom next to the crapper. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 8:12:36 AM EDT
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Thats where this one is going. 
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Posted: 3/26/2017 8:36:37 AM EDT
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Man, I used to love going thru the Sears catalog!
  Tho by the time I came along, they didn't have any military surplus, only the Ted Williams stuff.  Damn shame what a shitshow Sears has become.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 8:43:15 AM EDT
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How the mighty have fallen.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 8:49:31 AM EDT
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Man, I used to love going thru the Sears catalog! Tho by the time I came along, they didn't have any military surplus, only the Ted Williams stuff. Damn shame what a shitshow Sears has become. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 8:54:10 AM EDT
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Man, I used to love going thru the Sears catalog! Tho by the time I came along, they didn't have any military surplus, only the Ted Williams stuff. Damn shame what a shitshow Sears has become. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 8:58:26 AM EDT
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My father worked at Sears for 42 years. He moved into his office at Sears Tower before the top of the building was finished being built. He brought home every catalog before they were distributed to the public. I remember sitting and looking through those catalogs, especially the Christmas catalog. I would cut out the things I wanted as a hint for Christmas presents. It usually didn't work.
Because of Dad's discount, everything we bought was from Sears. That was usually a good thing except when other kids were riding Schwinn bikes which my brother and I would have rather had, and we were in our Sears bikes. Although, we were grateful for whatever they bought for us. It is very sad that Sears is going down. They most likely won't be in business by the end of the year. It is good my mother sold all her Sears stock a long time ago. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:11:31 AM EDT
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any chance of getting a better a better scan/photo of that page?
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:14:26 AM EDT
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I have a Sears .22LR (my first) with a cherry stock sitting in the safe right now, needing some TLC and loving, maybe I'll take her out and shoot her soon.
Probably made by Marlin, I'm guessing but it was a solid piece. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:16:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:32:18 AM EDT
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Man, I used to love going thru the Sears catalog! Tho by the time I came along, they didn't have any military surplus, only the Ted Williams stuff. Damn shame what a shitshow Sears has become. 12 years old and still have it 39 years later, along with the factory scope. 
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:46:45 AM EDT
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Catalog sales were a big part of Sears' sales for generations. Properly managed at the right time Sears.com could have occupied the place that Amazon.com has today.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:48:13 AM EDT
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I remember when they sold the Sir Edmond Hillery snowmobile.
It featured a Clinton engine. My friends had one, it was the worst snowmobile ever... The Hillery Clinton. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:50:20 AM EDT
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Cool story, Grandpa.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 9:52:42 AM EDT
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I grew up with almost everything Sears. Toughskins and Roughhousers for jeans. Back to school shopping was an August morning at Sears. Almost every tool my grandfather had was Craftsman. Our appliances, even my Atari cartridges were usually Sears.
It it is really sad what they have become. They seem to have replaced Kmart and Kmart is next to dead, where it seems Sears will most likely follow. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 10:01:53 AM EDT
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They seem to have replaced Kmart and Kmart is next to dead, where it seems Sears will most likely follow. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 10:04:52 AM EDT
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I remember when there used to be one in every bathroom next to the crapper. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 10:12:21 AM EDT
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With proper management, Amazon .com would instead be Sears.com. Quote HistoryQuoted:
With proper management, Amazon .com would instead be Sears.com. Quoted:
They mismanagemed the company by putting their head in the ground when the internet became a thing and online sales began replacing brick and mortar retail. Sears was known for mail-order sales; fer Chrissakes, it's what they built their fukkin' marque on!
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Posted: 3/26/2017 10:13:37 AM EDT
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An M-1 carbine? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I remember when there used to be one in every bathroom next to the crapper.  Shitter rats are vicious little bastidges!
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Posted: 3/26/2017 10:16:05 AM EDT
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Catalog sales were a big part of Sears' sales for generations. Properly managed at the right time Sears.com could have occupied the place that Amazon.com has today. Bookstores Music stores Video rental stores Photo developing stores Circuit city Radio shack What's dying Record companies Cable tv Kodak Brick and mortar Us mail Macy's Best Buy List goes on forever. Who has adapted? Probably a nice tidy list |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 11:30:08 AM EDT
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Pretty much a pipe dream. Old organizations don't adapt and have lots of baggage. Not that those running it aren't complete morons... they are. But look at what the internet and technology have taken down... Bookstores Music stores Video rental stores Photo developing stores Circuit city Radio shack What's dying Record companies Cable tv Kodak Brick and mortar Us mail Macy's Best Buy List goes on forever. Who has adapted? Probably a nice tidy list Blockbuster video, Hollywood video, both gone now. Blockbuster could have been Redbox or Netflix, but they weren't.
The Mart of Wal has online sales, tho, and you can pick up in store.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 11:37:24 AM EDT
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Well, they were leaders in recycling too. Way before recycling became a thing. When the new catalog arrived, you moved the old one to the privy.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 11:37:46 AM EDT
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KMart owns Sears. Any more questions? |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 12:09:12 PM EDT
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That is the exact lathe that I inherited from my grandfather. Along with a Craftsman bandsaw, drill press, jointer, and sander, most from the forties to the sixties.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 12:23:54 PM EDT
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I used to wear out the Sears catalog, lusting after stuff we could not afford. I remember how badly I wanted a Ted Williams shotgun, but it never happened.
Sad to see how they haven't managed to shift their business model to remain relevant. I seem to be in the minority of folks who are not celebrating their demise. Less B&M competition is a bad thing. They are also still useful. I was looking for a toolbox locally the other day. Checked HD and then Lowes. Selection sucked. Dropped by Sears and was blown away. 20 times the toolbox selection of those two places. Are they made as well as they were 30 years ago? No, but nothing is. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 12:29:07 PM EDT
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Wife worked LP there from 1998 to 2004. Lost her job when she came back from having cancer. She went back two years ago and works 30 hours a week PT.
Sears has never been fun however it used to not be pathetic. She says that the few customers that come in ALWAYS bitch about how bad Sears is now. The employees are all hammered so much they have started telling them to GTFO then. It's a vicious circle. There is no morale left at the stores here. My wife is just riding it until it craters just to say she outlived them |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:10:37 PM EDT
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I seem to be in the minority of folks who are not celebrating their demise.  Saddened by the completely unnecessary, purely-out-of-stupidity demise of yet another once-great American institution? Yes. That being said, I will "celebrate" their end in the same way I celebrate when an animal in pain is put down, ending their misery. 
With some few nelsonhaha.jpg for the idiots on the board of directors, who will have that failure on their resumes forever. 
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:16:27 PM EDT
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I still have my Ted Williams bolt action shotgun and a couple TW 7.5 hp OBs.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:21:47 PM EDT
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I miss the wish book days.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:46:55 PM EDT
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I still have my Ted Williams bolt action shotgun and a couple TW 7.5 hp OBs. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:48:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:48:36 PM EDT
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My dad bought 3 M1 Carbines back in the day for 60 bucks each. Said they looked brand new when he bought them. Still has two of them.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 2:59:04 PM EDT
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My late wife was born in 1949. She grew up in a Sears Catalog Home. My 90 year-old mother-in-law still lives in it. Her parents did not build the house, only purchased it after WW2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home#Existing_Sears_Homes |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 5:36:54 PM EDT
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My late wife was born in 1949. She grew up in a Sears Catalog Home. My 90 year-old mother-in-law still lives in it. Her parents did not build the house, only purchased it after WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home#Existing_Sears_Homes |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 5:46:55 PM EDT
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I remember looking at the guns in the catalog................shame they don't do that anymore. I remember when it was Sears, Western Auto, Otasco and Roses Department store where you could get some pretty cool guns
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Posted: 3/26/2017 6:00:46 PM EDT
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I own three guns purchased at SEARS
Believe it or not most SEARS stores had a sporting goods section on par with a Cabelas or Bass Pro Shops. Guns, ammunition, boats, fishing tackle, good boots but all at prices a working man could afford. Oh, and this was all inside shopping malls too. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 6:01:26 PM EDT
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I remember in staff meetings there the senior level execs were so out of touch with store operations and not listening to the feedback of the front line store managers and younger corporate managers who came up through the ranks starting in the retail side in college.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 6:04:07 PM EDT
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I own three guns purchased at SEARS
Believe it or not most SEARS stores had a sporting goods section on par with a Cabelas or Bass Pro Shops. Guns, ammunition, boats, fishing tackle, good boots but all at prices a working man could afford. Oh, and this was all inside shopping malls too. |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 6:13:34 PM EDT
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My first gun was a new Sears .20 gauge shotgun. Christmas of 1966.
Still have it. Pics are not of my gun, I was just to lazy to dig mine out of the safe........  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 3/26/2017 6:20:53 PM EDT
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I remember when all the department stores like Sears, Monkeywards, Kmart etc all sold guns. Those really were the good old days.
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Posted: 3/26/2017 6:37:24 PM EDT
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I remember fondling a shotgun at Sears back in the '70's. I was probably 9 or 10. Sales guy yelled at me and said something about not being kids toys. Maybe I should blame him, or thank him for having my collection now?
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Posted: 3/27/2017 1:29:39 AM EDT
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Actually it's the other way around. Sears Holding owns K Mart. |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 2:10:29 AM EDT
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Man, I used to love going thru the Sears catalog! Tho by the time I came along, they didn't have any military surplus, only the Ted Williams stuff. Damn shame what a shitshow Sears has become. Heck....I still have boxes of Sears & Roebuck shotgun shells.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 2:13:26 AM EDT
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I was with ya all the way up until the point of "Now them were salad days."
You killt it. You dun killt yer thread. |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 2:30:25 AM EDT
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They mismanagemed the company by putting their head in the ground when the internet became a thing and online sales began replacing brick and mortar retail. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Man, I used to love going thru the Sears catalog! Tho by the time I came along, they didn't have any military surplus, only the Ted Williams stuff. Damn shame what a shitshow Sears has become. And then then insult on top of injury, they closed down their catalog sales division, which was a huge mistake, they had the makings of what today's internet sales model. IMHO, with a few minor tweaks they could've made it big in the internet sales, but alas 'should have, could have."
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Posted: 3/27/2017 2:42:32 AM EDT
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I used to love Sears, mostly because of the paycheck. Then they laid me off a few weeks ago. Now it sounds like Eddie Lampert doesn't have much hope in the company either.
No more employee discount, (no big deal to me though) dirty stores, filthy everything else, empty shelves, and it's incredibly hard to fire employees who are blatantly stealing. (I worked in AP management) The culture of that company is becoming corrosive. You get thrown under the bus for the stupidest little thing. I should really start my own thread about my time at Sears, maybe several. Working with Sears upper management, retarded shoplifters, and how cheap they are. Cheap as in I had to buy my own rubber gloves to deal with gross smelly people, weekly vomit/feces/urine/blood cleanup etc. I will say this though, I met a LOT of great people working there. |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 4:16:24 AM EDT
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$105 in 1968 is roughly equal to $725 in todays dollars.
As you are perusing that '68 catalog, just multiply every value by 7 to give you todays cost. I think you will be surprised at how inexpensive, relatively, many things are today. |
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Posted: 3/27/2017 4:19:36 AM EDT
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I'm SAD that Sears is continuing to die...
In the 70's, going to Sears at the Mall was Big MoJo. We bought most of our clothes there, Dad definitely bought his tools there (I have them still working great), we always got batteries and tires (not to mention other auto service done there)... Bought lots of camping gear from my Boy Scout days, not to mention Hunting and Fishing gear there. Of course the Photo Sessions that I (as all kids do) detested... It was THE go to store... To see it plunge so deep that it doesn't look like a recovery is possible is so very sad. With their Catalog sales experience and logistics, they could have dominated Web shopping if they had gotten behind it early. |
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