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[Scott Holtzman]

The Sears toy catalog was an inch thick.  It was the best part making a Christmas wish list.

The toys were the highlight of the holidays as a kid.


Wandering Sears while the wife shopped was a treat.  What will I do now?

[Mike Caldwell]

My mom came across a 1992 Wish Book while we were home for Christmas-made for an interesting walk down memory lane.

I'm going guess I could still find a 1970's era Sears Christmas Wish Book at my mom & dad's house. It's probably in the same place with my 1960's Hot Wheels car collection I have never been able to find!!

[Russ Davis]

The Sears toy catalog was an inch thick.  It was the best part making a Christmas wish list.

Maybe I should've been a "lampie" instead of going into audio.  In the mid-'60s, when the Wish Book arrived around mid-September I went to the Christmas lighting section first, THEN the toys.

[Bob Leonard]

In the 50's early 60's the catalogs would come to the house and we would leave them with the pages marked so "Santa" would know what he should bring. In the late 50's my father worked a second job at the original Sears in Boston. He used to bring home the display stuff because the policy was to throw the displays away!! One year about a month after Christmas he showed up with about a dozen HUGE Erector set displays. Giant Ferris wheels, etc., and they all used those big blue 120v motors with the gear shifter on them and exposed gears. The only problem was that all of the nuts and screws had been glued. It took months to disassemble those displays, but I had the biggest and best Erector set in the world.

Another thing Sears sold in Boston was WWII surplus, including tanks.

[John Rutirasiri]

I was a co-op at RR Donnelly's Lakeside Press plant in 1993 and saw the last Sears catalog come off the 2-story gravure press.  No one could have foreseen the decline of Sears at that time...they were still king of department stores.

John R.

[GenePink]

Check the attic, that's where mom put mine. Now they are probably in my attic, but I don't know where. The cycle repeats.

Erector sets bring back fond memories. Screwdriver jpeg attached, from mid '60's.

Craftsman hand tools are (were) ideal for someone that uses tools a lot, but doesn't need to make a living at it. Power tools, don't bother wasting money on the newer stuff, it is right up there with Harbor Frieght.

I found some Sears catalogs at mom's place, mildewy, going back to the early '50's. Damn, those lingerie models back then, were McGuire Sisters hot.

Gene

[Dennis Wiggins]

It's sad to see them become a rusty old machine.

-Dennis

[Mike Caldwell]

It's sad to see them become a rusty old machine.

-Dennis

I have that same motor / transmission with my old Erector set.
Today that motor would never be approved as a kids toy with all the exposed gears.....how did I ever survive! I actually know where the Erector set is at at mom & dad's! My last project is still assembled, a large crane.

[Dennis Wiggins]

I have that same motor / transmission with my old Erector set.
Today that motor would never be approved as a kids toy with all the exposed gears.....how did I ever survive! I actually know where the Erector set is at at mom & dad's! My last project is still assembled, a large crane.

We learned to Remove our fingers quickly when they were in danger.

When you started to feel a "pinch"...
If you felt an "electric tingle"...
Do not stick metal things in wall sockets...
The difference between wet fingers and dry fingers...
Pinches cause blood blisters...
What direction a knife or tool will go if it "slips"...
What direction our hand will go if it "slips"...
If it draws blood...

I'm sure there are many more.

-Dennis

<edit>  I never did like the "square nuts".  They really made my finger tips hurt. 

[Craig Leerman]

I have that same motor / transmission with my old Erector set.
Today that motor would never be approved as a kids toy with all the exposed gears.....how did I ever survive! I actually know where the Erector set is at at mom & dad's! My last project is still assembled, a large crane.

If a toy motor like that showed up at a kids house today the parents would pack their kids off to safety in their safe space 

I didn't have a cool motor like that with my set. 

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