The Last Sears Catalog Ever Published From 1993! | Retail Archaeology
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- In this episode of Retail Archaeology we take a look at the last Sears catalog ever published, the 1993 Spring/Summer Annual.
Catalog section time stamps:
Women's Apparel & Jewelry - 1:52
Men's Apparel - 7:08
Bedroom & Bathroom - 7:56
Furniture & Home Goods - 11:46
Hardware & Tools - 14:05
Automotive - 16:50
Sporting Goods & Fitness - 18:15
Electronics - 18:54
Computers - 20:21
Audio Equipment - 22:15
Video Games - 23:06
TV & Video - 24:53
Appliances - 27:40
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-Space Harrier Main Theme (arcade game)
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-Bet On It by Silent Partner
-Book Bag by E's Jammy Jams
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Police officer, Eddie: "Did you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns?"
Moe: "No!" [buzz]
"All right, maybe I did. But I didn't shoot him." [ding]
Eddie: "Checks out. OK, sir, you're free to go."
Moe: "Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight." [buzz]
"A date." [buzz]
"Dinner with friends." [buzz]
"Dinner alone." [buzz]
"Watching TV alone." [buzz]
"All right! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog." [buzz]
"Sears catalog." [ding]
"Now would you unhook this already, please? I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment!" [buzz]
I also had to think of the time they wanted to buy a new television on The Simpsons:
"I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one. And there's Sorny."
E. L. I was thinking about that scene on that part 😂👏
Sometimes it feels like the 90's was just yesterday, then I see this stuff and realize just how long it's been
I am as old as this catalog. Now, I feel even more ancient.
I was 25 when this catalog came out. Now I feel even more ancient. Thanks, Ashitomarisu. (grin)
'93- 80s stuff was just starting to really die down and the looks, but theres still that hangover from it, and then some really cheesy 90s trends to go along with it. At the same time, mullets died out around that time, and never came back really, unless you count some of the millennial "ironic hipsters" lol
This catalog came out when I got married and I had it and dreamed about buying stuff from it to furnish my first place! Think how old that makes me feel! I was 23/24 years old!!
This was the internet before the internet. It was stuff like this that made Sears such an unstoppable force back in the day. This catalog made it possible for anyone anywhere so buy their stuff without having to live near any shopping. I myself have fond memories of flipping through these as a kid picking out xmas wish list stuff. VERY cool video showcasing what's quite honestly the end of an era. That book is priceless because of that. Absolutely love this channel
think about the potential if they printed this digitally online and allowed customers to buy directly off the internet. Sound like Amazon to you now? They could have put all this online and killed Amazon before they even got remotely started!
Oh we did too! I used to get so excited seeing those catalogs on the front porch waiting for me to open!
@Stanley Draper and now the malls are dying, so what the heck?!
@@nancyhicksgribble9799 best after school surprise!
My parents own a house from 1929, and a few years ago, they installed a light in the living room. They had to saw a portion of the ceiling to do it, and we discovered old newspapers that were used as insulation. I was able to salvage a few pages and found a few ads from Sears of 1959, but they went by "Sears, Roebuck, & Company."
Jose Barrios my old house was an old oilfield shack from when our town was founded in the late 20s, attic was never opened til we moved in, there were stacks of news papers and Sears Roebuck catalogs right at the door to the attic, some of them were used to line the walls and ceilings, kind of an early form of insulation I’m told.
Wow! Is there anywhere we could see those? A website or Instagram? Sorry, just curious.
You can almost smell the cigarette smoke and potpourri looking at those fabric bathroom sets lol
@Stanley Draper No it wasn't. People smoked everywhere in the early 90s. Plus, of course a home bathroom isn't public.
That catalog must have been a nightmare to make for the graphic designers in 93.
Martin Kronström nah. Job security. When you have 1200 pages to fabricate your gonna have 300 days to lay it out. 30 days to print 30 days to distribute. Then do it again.
Now the photographers and set designers had a Hell of alot of work.
Are you talking about something like QuarkXpress? I was more talking here about how hard it was for them to manage everything in a pre-email era.... getting everything approved, every logos, details, text, every pictures for every items. Also storage... I mean this whole project today would fit on a USB stick... but I would really like to know how they handled that project in 93.
Martin Kronström Telefax
They probably used several computers tied together for memory.
Actually, if you think about it , they mostly used the same ads that they had in the '92 issue and only updated the price on some items, more than likely 90% of the images and texts were already used in previous issues and mail leaflets , I vividly remember Sears, JC Penneys , Target and other having that mail packet every week arrive at my house and only caring about the fast food coupons that came with the bundle.
That the catalog was discontinued in 1993 has me scratching my head for the reason. It can't be said that the Internet killed the Sears Catalog. In 1993, the Internet was very immature and not very many people were on it. There were no websites like Amazon and such where you could find thousands of products. Web Browsers were just getting off the ground. Usenet was probably still king back then. I wonder if the costs associated with producing and distributing the big book led to it's demise? I'm sure this was part of it. I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.
if you watch some of the business history videos on youtube like Company Man's, you learn that some of these businesses have been in decline for decades, so it was maybe partially related to this..think about how Best Buy, Circuit City and other places may had helped damage Sears for example
I remember going through the Sears and JC Penney catalogs AT LENGTH as a kid, I remember how ridiculous I thought it was as a 14 year old that Sears stopped the catalog. In my opinion, they never recovered!!!!
Funny how 1993 still had a lot of 80's feel and look going on. My family still had 80's cars back then.
Yeah, I feel like the 90's are more 90's starting in 94. Before that itwas like an extension of the 80's.
This is oddly comforting.
If you can get your hands on any later 80s Christmas catalogues, those would be awesome. I remember the the fall/winter always had far more toys/video games than spring/summer.
I am getting the fall winter version of this soon and that one has 1600 plus pages
Going through an ‘80’s Wishbook would be amazing!
Did you know that Montgomery Ward still sends out catalogs? I almost fainted a few months ago when I picked up my grandmas mail and they had sent her one. I thought they went under 100%
egyptmachine I had no idea they still sent out a catalog. I'm going to have to get a hold of one. Thanks for watching!
A local company called the swiss brands, previously swiss colony bought them. They are based out of Monroe Wisconsin and even have a little Montgomery ward store there, I try to visit it when I have to go to the hospital. I requested a catalog 2 months ago and still waiting for it.
Evonna 87 around 2004 if I'm not mistaken
Star Trek Theory yea, right now that's not their main brand but they are building it up.
Swiss Colony snacks and chocolate and gift baskets, they still send catalogs too in fact I recieve them because I bought a Mouse shaped chocolate last year and now they send me catalogs and they own Montgomery ward now yes. They even have a credit line through Comenity bank still
Sears Canada had catalouges up until this past srping, and then went bankrupt a few months later. 🤷🏼♀️
Sears was the original mail order company back in the day. Now they are being beaten by Amazon which is a modern mail order company. Why doesn't Sears go back to its roots?
To make this work, Sears has to find a product/service they can market cheaper and may need to operate at a loss for a while. Amazon started with cheaper books (which helped college kids), Netflix offered movies by mail, Redbox offered cheaper movie rentals. Sears needs to find something they can market to the masses cheaper and quicker. I think Sears should go back to offering home kits. Many people want to own a home, but are priced out of it. A do-it-yourself home kit might work.
DrScopeify
Yes, Sears Craftsman Homes...the quality was AMAZING and the price was very fair for what you got.
Amazon is a marketplace with competing brands and competing vendors just like eBay but more organized. I don't think Sears can pull it off anymore.
Sulfen I agree but imagine if they had decided to put the catalog online back then. They would have had a head start to work with. Even though there was a lot in this catalog, they sold even more varieties of stuff earlier on. Putting it online would have allowed for expansion on par with the old days. Maybe they would have squashed or bought out Amazon before it took off. Or maybe they would have ended up dead anyway.
@@randzopyr1038 Yes, 1993 was a tad bit early but by the end of 1994 and in 1995 the web was being recognized as having huge retail potential. Amazon and Ebay were already in business with more jumping on the bandwagon. By 1998 Sears still had a basic website and continued pushing catalogs for shopping at home. It certainly isn't easy to pull off what Amazon has and realistically how many of us would have had that vision back in the mid 90's while working for Sears (or been able to convince the board and shareholders that dumping money into it was worth it). But imagine what could have been if they had gone back to their roots of offering just about everything. Maybe a Sears vs Amazon battle for the ages.
Sears used to be an old time amazon. They sold everything by mail and store 100 years ago.
You could even order a house! It would come in crates to the rail yard and men built themselves.
By the way... did you know that Sears sold homes in catalogs in the way back day? Not only did Sears have their own sheds, but they had Sears Homes!
TheRealBigMac They even sold guns in the old days. Until 1968, you could have them shipped to your door!
TheRealBigMac... Mr. Blandings builds his dreamhouse. There is one of these homes, still standing, in great shape, in Tulsa, OK. They delivered the entire supplies, for building, one of these homes, free delivery!!! Let's see AMAZON, offer that! 📦
16:00 craftsman was a great brand. Made in USA, if it broke, they'd replace it no questions, for free.
They got greedy and set it overseas.
yes, I have a Craftsman lawnmower purchased in 2005 and it still works well
they still replace but with lower quality steel
yes and they still replace the tools if you ask but they arent as good as originals.
People got greedy and were buying tools at yard sales to replace with new. Every good thing gets ruined by scammers.
I got a LXI TV from a Goodwill recently. Bought it to play my Genesis. They sold it to me for a buck lol! It's pretty good! I did notice a Sears sticker in the back and the year on it was 1993.
That coupon expired in 1993, and I realized that was 25 friggin years ago!
Steve Lovelace I have a hard time remembering that the 90s were more than 10 years ago.
I was six years old, toys and video games were the only things that interested me then.
The bathrooms...oh god the bathrooms...that being said pretty sure I'd been to a few bathrooms that looked like that back in the day
We had them actually from the early 70's which we bought at Sears. However, my dad choose indoor outdoor carpet titles. Later replaced with that carpet. They included a pattern to cut for the perfect fit. One still purchased the accent pieces, tub mat and one for outside. About every 2 weeks into the wash it went. They wore out pretty quick and just replaced it. I purchased one and lined the trunk of my car cut for a perfect fit. The backing held it in place. Get a matching color too. Wish still could get one
Do a winter catalog or a Montgomery Ward catalog! I loved looking through these around Xmas time when they had all the cool toys we couldn't afford in them.
omg the carpets in the bathroom 😂
Old people still asked for the catalog when I worked there, then they get dumbfounded when we would tell them the catalog has been gone for years. It's as if they were disoriented in time. After the main catalog, there was a series of specialty catalogs for things like home decor and leather. You could call and request them or shop online. These have probably gone to retail heaven along with Homelife, Sears Grand, and the great indoors.
I believe Sears still offered a paper Craftsman Tool catalog all the way up till the early 2000s, I vaguely remember seeing them when I picked up a Diehard battery for my 1996 VW Golf, which I still have today. LOL
watershed44 It was probably part of the collection of specialty catalogs they offered after the big one was retired.
Omg the poor children that got a NES vs a SNES because of a $10 difference in price.
I can see why Sears discontinued the Sears Catalog, looking at the catalog it just looks dated, even by 1993. However I agree they missed the boat on internet retail and establishing themselves early on. As the CEO of Sears said in the 90’s that online retail would never be a thing, boy was he wrong on so many levels. If only he could’ve seen into the future where Sears would be now.
Yep...they should have jumped on it as soon as the internet was a thing.
Just wanted to say that I'm a proud patron of 3 months, love your music choice, and your content. Keep it up man much love!
Whip King Thank you so much!
Thank you for doing this video! I weirdly miss these catalogs. When I was a kid, it was so exciting finding the catalog in the mailbox. Loved the toy section!
That beard is magnificent.
MrMario2011 he like the Dan Bell of the west.
Yeah, the early 90s were sure a different time. I almost kind of miss it, really. I'm sure my parents still have some of this stuff around, and I even had the old Kenmore dehumidifier they bought back in the day in my apartment until it quit working last year.
It's really too bad Sears has fallen on such bad times since then.
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I was always amused by the order of categories in catalogs like this: evening wear --> lingerie --> maternity clothing --> baby stuff --> kids clothing. They're running the life cycle.
They should've kept the catalogue going and then transition to online.
People loved these and read them all year round.
I feel like they did transition to online a little...I remember the website sucked. It really had a half-hearted feel, like they knew the writing was on the wall. 😕
I wasn't born yet when this catalog came out but in my old house we had a bunch of 90s furniture that we would never get rid of because my family was still using them and watching this video explained a lot about where the furniture came from and the time capsule that my house was stuck in
I desperately miss these old catalogs. I'd love to have some just to look through for entertainment.
This catalog video was a hoot! THose bathrooms..... 😂😂. But I agree with you sears effed up with not jumping on the e-commerce bandwagon like RadioShack till it was too late.
The bathrooms look like bedrooms with a skirt for your bathtub and toilets...just ew
For some reason I remember getting sears catalogs into the mid to late 90s, I remember looking through the toys and video games right before my bday and Xmas.
In those days, porn was scarce. What I did have was the Sears catalog. Fun times.
Know what's even more fun? Flipping back and forth to the Playboy channel and hope it would glitch and partially unscramble the signal. I only managed that a few times.
I agree about the Sears catalog
@@robertyglesias9673 Good that you cleared it out XD
That was pretty much a tour through my parent's house today. The couches specifically... and several of the light fixtures. XD
I'd forgotten Sears had an auto center... Got bored and checked out their tire selection. Ended up buying 4 tires and a 6 month alignment contract.
Yep...we always got our tires at Sears.
I LOVED those foot thick catalogs as a child and teen. I would pretend I was planning my life and pick out everything for my house ! Lol.
Same! So fun to imagine all the cool things you would have in your house and pick your colour schemes and stuff! ☺️
@@deendrew36 I'd spend hours as a 13 year old, even choosing my future children's clothing.
We didn't have so many interesting things to do back then. Lol! The internet didn't exist.
The skirt around the bathroom sink hid the pipes and gave you a place to put stuff where it would be hidden from view but available. And they were a pain.
The crazy thing about the computer... $1400 in 1993 would be like $2400 today. You are talking 5k iMac for that cash. Computers were expensive. My dad bought a mac in 1988 for $2800. In today's money that would be nearly $6000, or an iMac Pro.
Sears had so much potential, although they failed to adapt and change to a much more modern setting.
That last page White Kenmore dryer I have! My grandmother bought it from Sears and it got passed to me. Thing still works great!
the title of this confuses the everloving fuck out of me because I was born after '93 and we definitely had sears catalogs come in the mail back in the 90s-early 00s
+Mookle S. Those weren't "The Full Sears Catalog". They did publish a much smaller "Christmas Wishlist" off and on for example. Here's an interesting article from the Chicago Tribune from 1993 about this particular catalog and how it was the last full Sears catalog: articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-01-27/news/9303172618_1_catalogs-sears-big-book-copies
I loved the Christmas catalog from Sears and JC Penney
As funny and embarrassing as it is to see the 90s fashions and culture, I would do ANYTHING to go back to the 90s. I miss it so much. Thank you for this video. :)
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Ceiling lamp "U"
That was over our dining table when I was a kid.
If you ever have the chance to go to Indianapolis, Indiana, you must go to Circle Center Mall downtown. It is starting to die, and I hope someone captures it before it’s gone.
Has anything replaced the Nordstrom, since it closed at Circle Center? Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if that mall was struggling to some extent. At least my memory was that mall wasn't in as bad of a shape, as the deader Grand Avenue Mall in Milwaukee, WI is. Of course since Nordstrom closed, who knows how many inline stores within the mall have closed? I hadn't revisited, since then. I'm sure I'll give that mall another revisit, when I'm back in Indy.
BoratWanksta the mall is about 20% vacant now, excluding the 99% empty fourth floor. Even after millions in incentives, Simon couldn’t get anything in the Nordstrom space except offices. The only anchor left is Carson Pirie Scott, and their parent company, The Bon Ton, is about to collapse. Future doesn’t look bright :(
I used to live there years ago while I was a little boy (live out west now) and another dead mall (Eastgate) is also interesting. It is now used for a completely different purpose now, as it is now owned by Lifeline Data Centers.
Union station was supposed to bring people downtown to shop,that didnt work and they tried the circle center. I dont understand why they think anybody would want to shop down town. There hasn't been a reason to shop down town since the 60s. Fountain square had a few places 20 years ago that were fun but now its trendy in a bad way. Anything good about Broad Ripple left?
Pete S.
Simon's main flagship is the Fashion Mall at Keystone in northern Indianapolis. Very upscale, has Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom as it's anchors.
“Dod people really flip through all of this.....?” YES! You made a cup of tea and sat and poured over it! It was nice to imagine how you would want your house and order your summer or school clothes and everything!
lived in England for years in the mid 80's, my dad was air force....my mom did all of our Christmas shopping and school clothes shopping exclusively out of sears and penny catalogs...I remember circling everything as a kid I wanted. Loved these catalogs!!
Wow, so Sears had better bargains than AAFES...cool.
SEARS did made more catalogs after 1993 but they had less pages.
Wow! Great episode about some good but not so great things in retail! At the time of this catalogue, I was 20 years old and my 2nd year in the USMC. With my age and regulation haircut, I used to be mistaken for a freakin' high school teenager! (ugh!) I actually used to work one day a week in a Sears store and women dressed like the models in the catalogue used to treat me like a naive teen! (double ugh!)
AFA Jensen speakers go... The ones I found to be desirable are the vintage era that went into the 60's Fender amplifiers and Fender Rhodes/Rhodes Electric Pianos. Pioneer really took off once they penetrated the DJ market.
The funny thing about the "LXI" brand name is some of the later "italicised" logos look like the logo eventually used for the LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) consortium, which is on lots of test equipment designed after 2005.
EDIT: Btw, I believe BK's were pretty much passe around 1993.
What a cool video. A throwback for sure. Thanks!
Wow those bathroom sets were wild. I wonder how man grandma's had those sets. How the times and style change. It so fun looking back even a decade to see yourself and thinking what was I thinking.
I wonder if Amazon got the idea "Lets move this catalog online and add more items so more people can buy items" even though they only sold books when the first started out.
I know this video is 2 yrs old but I couldn't help but comment. This video was a damn experience. When I was little in the 90s I used to flip thru the jcp and sears catalogs and mentally furnish my future home. No lie! And lemme tell you, 7yr old me was ALL about those frilly bathroom curtains on everything! Also I'm pretty sure I had one of those futons in my room as a teen lol. And the box stereo cd changers with the two huge speakers! Ugh I could go on and on. My childhood in a book. Oh how things have changed....great vid!
Brooke Corcuera I did the same thing in the 60’s. You could even pick out your dog from the Spiegel catalog.
even then, they sold a portion of what they originally did. you used to be able to buy a whole house, shipped in crates, to build on your own lot.
3:50 yes they still do Taylor Swift did ads for them during the 1989 era
as a young child with no cable and no friends/siblings to play with- i absolutely flipped through each and every page of the big catalogs .
I still have a large component Sony stereo system like the ones in this catalog. I still love it. With it fully cranked, you can't even be in same room with it. And a related memory of Sears and and a system like that is me and a friend going into a Sears in the late'80s. In my hand was the recently purchased copy of Slayer's Haunting The Chapel EP from the music store in the same mall. We located the highest wattage component display stereo, inserted the cassette and treated everybody on the second floor of Sears to the song "Chemical Warfare". Fun times.
chronicfatigue used to have a Sony system probably like that...all black...15" woofers....man that thing cranked!!
I worked at Sears circa 1994-95 and people were ALWAYS asking where the catalog department was and couldn’t understand why there wasn’t one anymore.
Sears had everything going for them to be successful in the 21st century, and they screwed it up. Like you said in the video, look at every thing they sold. They had a warehouse in Chicago that was a couple city blocks long, by their old hq (pre Sears Tower), perfect for internet goods to be shipped from. There was an article and video from, I believe the Chicago Tribune talking to several former executives. They said Sears wanted to change everything, and didn't believe the internet would be a big thing. Those people who spoke were all gone by the mid 90's, right when Sears started to make horrible business decisions. Thanks for this video, it brings back a lot of memories.
Austin Lawler
Incompetent management, and they didn't bring in younger folks whom would have realized how the internet would affect retail commerce. The management is COMPLETELY responsible for the failure. I think these people should have been sued by the shareholders.
its so odd because NO one I ever met wore those type of clothes in the 90s ever. Everyone wore alternative styles or way less dressy stuff. But I love shoulder pads
Have you ever done a Spiegel Catalog show? We loved Spiegel! I still recall the Fall 1987 catalog slogan, "Live the richest Fall of all!" It was awesome!
I have a Kenmore gas dryer that looks a lot like that one on the very last page. It's still going strong. Got it used on craigslist about 6 years ago. We've gone thru 2 brand new washers in the same 6 years. When I would hear older people say they don't make things like they used to I would roll my eyes. I don't do that anymore. Loved those old Sears catalogs. My grandma always had them and would tell all us grandkids to circle things we would like Santa to bring us.
Yay! I was waiting for this episode! 1993...memories! Thanks Retail archeology! This was great!
I hated shoulder pads btw. And that comment about boys and the bra and panty section. LOL! So true!
Sears back when I was growing up in the late 60's into the 80's was a popular place to go for your automotive maintenance needs, tires, batteries, shocks etc.
My grandma worked at sears in 93, and I am now realizing everything I owned from that time came from sears. Everything including the carpeted bathroom was at my house, this is breaking my brain.
This was great. My local sears is closing this week I believe so seeing this sure brings memories
It's always cool to look back at retail catalogs from the past they just don't do magazines catalogs anymore.
Oh my, proform! My proform treadmill from 1993 just died 5 months ago. My dad had bought it for me from Sears when I was in my teens. When I got married I took it to my new home and continued to use it. It had a lift gauge and would lock when you lifted the platform you walk on. You'd slide a bar and it would turn into a bench for weight lifting. That thing was awesome, it still worked like a like a horse (25 years) to its dying day.
I actually worked at a Sears at that time when the last catalogue came out. I was hired in December of 1992 to work in the men's department during their Christmas season. I came back later the following summer and worked as a shoe stocker. I wish I would've purchased the last one.
When I was a kid my sister and I would go through the catalogue and pick out things that we wished we'd get at Christmas. I remember they had a toy drum set I wanted and I believe I did get it for Christmas.
My first cell phone came from Sears. Thing was a brick, greenish-crocodile fake leather cover, with the pull-out antenna. But, man I was cool!
This an some old airline safety cards im might buy off eBay next.
was watching the brady bunch movie today and the dad said "put on your sunday best kids, we're going to sears" wow
I was in high school in the '90s - graduated in 1996. 1993 was before shopping online. I don't have a Sears in my hometown, however I recall we did have a Diehard store back then. I still have a Sony Walkman from back then
'97 high school grad here. When I started college I recall some people recommending this thing called Amazon to get books cheaper than the college bookstore. I didn't think much of it at the time....
Davin Peterson
My Dad still has his Walkman Sport (Yellow waterproof) cassette from the early 90s and it still works perfectly, it was made in Japan, this was back when Sonly still meant high quality.
A friend of mine actually still works for Sears selling kitchen setups and continues doing quite well. I was using pagers for work into the mid/late 2000s.
Okay so in my hometown of Syracuse NY there is a large colonial style home, painted yellow, on James St., directly accross the street from Lincoln Middle school. Supposedly this entire home could be purchased as a kit from the Sears catalog. Amazing to think a department store sold literal houses and now struggles to sell dishwashers...
Rich people had under the cabinet TV! So true. If they had cable on the kitchen TV they were really fancy!
I had this exact catalog! I remember pouring over it thinking about what I wanted to buy! I must have had it quite awhile because it was right around the time I got married in 1994. Don’t think I ever ordered anything from it, I must have had a Sears card and it came free in the mail.
You have my love and respect for opening the video with the Space Harrier theme
I was 23 in 1993...i would go trough the electronics section and even mark the ones i wanted to buy...my first tv was a 25" tv, paid like $400 in payments for it..., remote control , basic, my 1st vcr was like $400 dlls , 1st stereo $300...i married in 93 so i remember those prices..great video
ha! my parents were older folks,they adopted me. And they had CARPET in their bathroom,orangey rust carpeting and orange walls and orange toilet cover and little rug to match.And they had it until 2001. when they died it was still this way and I loved seeing it.
Sears miraculously survive 2017 but it's days are number
What a coincidence I'm currently a computer tech at a school district and, yes, printers still do suck. Thanks for all the videos!
This Sears Catalog was really the Amazon of its day when you consider the vast selection of products.
My parents had a Sears console TV, Sears trash smasher and sears freezer. The freezer is from 1981 and I still use it.
Wow, you gotta do a VHS dead mall video! It hasn't been done before to my knowledge. To get permission you would have to find one that was bought out by some guy who loves malls. There was one last year but I forget the name of it. Or, go somewhere farther away and you don't care if you get kicked out permanently because you're never coming back anyway.
My family once had a house with carpet in the bathrooms - it was built in 1989-1990 and had the same gray carpet in every single room except the kitchen and laundry. Needless to say, with four kids in the house and the dog, we had tile put down.
My parents, purchased me a VIC20 and a COMMODORE COMPUTER, from SEARS, in the 1970's. I still, have the VIC20,in the box, with two of the game cartridges. Our home was filled, with items, from SEARS. My Mother bought laundry soap, in huge boxes, there.
my parents did too, they loved technology and bought the VIC 20 and 21 too in the early 80s. from Sears, in person not catalog. It got lost when they died and I want the VIC 20 back and Radar Rat race game for it if you have it and ever want to sell
thanks for this video i remember when i was a kid in the 70s picking threw a sears catalog for what i wanted for christmas when i went over to my grandparents house they would always get what i picket me and my big brother would talk about what we wanted during the christmas season sears was the #1 store
I wonder if anyone has any Sears Canada Catalogs? RIP Sears Canada 🇨🇦 :(
InfinityPets someone else mentioned in the comment that Sears Canada actually put out a catalog until last year.
They did! I was born in 1992, and I remember getting it every year at christmas time as a kid and being excited to ask for half the stuff in the catalog. lol
Yes they did, too bad I did not keep any... Catalogs production was one factor of Sears debt...
InfinityPets that would be interesting to see the differences!
I do, I have catalogs from 2015 and 2016 (the last one) so they kept making them Until the end though not as huge as they once were...... I just wish I had the foresight to keep more.....
Great video, bro. Love the throwback catalogs.
Idk why we all like watching stuff like the last Sears catalog...but we do and it’s great 😆
At one time Sears sold cars, that's their version of course back when they were often referred to as a horseless carriage. They were in their catalogue.
CB Radios are still huge in the trucking industry!
The Megan Experience Yep. I see them all the time in truck stops!
The skirt around the pedestal sink gives you a place to stash stuff behind it. Plus it hides the pipes.
I love this channel for the person and also for the music...soooo nostalgic...makes my toes tingle lol
We used the catalogue for shopping a lot when I was young - we lived far from major shopping places (more than an hour in one direction.) Sears maintained a storefront in town where items could be ordered, payment made, and goods delivered. Appliances, clothes, toys, sporting goods... seems to me our towels and all dad's tools were from sears.
I would dog-ear favorite pages and circle things I wanted - old school wishlisting, I guess! My mom ordered many toys and even my favorite unicorn bedspread from Sears. My first bike was delivered to that Sears catalogue storefront - going to Sears to pick something up was very exciting.
When they closed those small catalogue storefronts (the first step they took, which caused us to shop elsewhere more often,) then killed the catalogue, they really ended an era of mail order (which they were built on!) that was then filled by the internet, and, largely, Amazon.