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This is sad for such a well-known brand. I have such fond memories of their Wishbook catalog that came out around the holidays every year. I would flip to the
by Zelphyr 8y ago
This is sad for such a well-known brand. I have such fond memories of their Wishbook catalog that came out around the holidays every year. I would flip to the toys section and dream. My grandparents even had a years old Wishbook in our toy box at their house that me and my cousins would look at every time we went over there, Christmas or not.
But everything dies. It must. It has to in order to clear the way for something else that will advance the species. That's one of the many reasons why "Too Big To Fail" is such a bad idea. Sure, letting all the banks fail at once was probably not the best course of action. But we needed to take a good look at how to structure them so that their inevitable death wouldn't take out the whole system.
Sears dying, thankfully, won't do that at least. And if anybody has a mid-1970's Wishbook they want to part with, hit me up.
- sizzzzlerz 8y agoI go back a bit earlier, remembering the Christmas catalogs in the 60s and the huge number of pages of toys. I still remember drooling over a James Bond Goldfinger kit with the Aston-Martin with ejection seat and rotating license plates and the laser table intended to cut Bond in half. My parents didn't get it for me, knowing I'd probably be bored with it in a few weeks. So, it is true we boomers didn't always get everything we wanted.
- ams6110 8y agoThere was also the women's lingerie and undergarment section of the catalog, which was as close to porn as you could easily get for a boy in the 1970s.