Tuesday, January 01, 2008

The Greed Of Christmases Past: Wishbookweb.com

If you don't already take enough trips down memory lane, here's a site that's archived a bunch of the old Wish Books. If you're under thirty years old, your parents may not have ordered all (or any of) your presents from JC Penny or Sears!

I loved the ritual of the Christmas Wish Book arriving each year - poring through the toy section for weeks, carefully circling and meticulously listing the stuff I wanted.

At one point, I had everything on this page but the plush (before Star Wars, Peanuts was the thing for me)! It's wild to look through these catalogs now - just like today, some of the toys are great, and others are really awful. Check 'em out!

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2 Comments:

Blogger Bob said...

Wow!

That brings back memories! I had Snoopy's Sopwith Camel. Awesome post!

B.

10:56 PM  
Blogger Jeff Pidgeon said...

Thanks! I had the model, and the Skediddler set. The music box is all that remains of that page's toys.

11:29 PM  

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