Christmas Wishbooks of old

[Ervserver]

These guys scan Christmas wishbooks of the past and post them online, looks like they are getting ready to upload more years soon too.

http://www.wishbookweb.com/

[number4son]

Thanks, erv! That is an awesome site. If they can scan whole catalogs, why can't my high school scan old yearbooks? I checked and they aren't even copyrighted.

[Ervserver]

They could and they should

[Christy Carol]

I saw an old wishbook for sale on Ebay. I think it was from the early 80's.

[Ervserver]

I was in a bidding war on a Sears Wishbook circa 1964, got a tad to expensive for me :sad:

[Snowflake]

Are you kiding me about those old SEars catologs? I threw one in the trash yesterday. i was cleaning out and downsizing!!!!

[Auntie Mistletoe]

We poured over the Sears Wishbooks for months leading up to Christmas. We even named the children in the clothing and toy sections. Kept us busy for hours and my mom loved it because she knew we weren't rough housing and it gave her time to clean the house, bake goodies, etc.

Some of those pages were dog-eared by Christmas Day. We used to cut out some of the things we wanted most and made collages and left them out by Santa's cookie plate just in case our letters got lost along the way.

Great memories.

[snowberry]

Wonderful. I was sad not t o see any early 50s Sears. Maybe later. But I'm going to go back and peruse the really old ones.

snowberry (who thanks Jesus for the memories)

[Mrs Santas Sister]

I bookmarked the link it is wonderful, I especially liked the 1940's catalogs

[fenwick]

We poured over the Sears Wishbooks for months leading up to Christmas. We even named the children in the clothing and toy sections. Kept us busy for hours and my mom loved it because she knew we weren't rough housing and it gave her time to clean the house, bake goodies, etc.

Some of those pages were dog-eared by Christmas Day. We used to cut out some of the things we wanted most and made collages and left them out by Santa's cookie plate just in case our letters got lost along the way.

Great memories.

Many of times,I asked the kids to circle things they MIGHT like to have. Helped Santa alot.
hohoho. Yes,it kept them busy. Never thought of the collage thing. Good idea.

[mother christmas]

I love the wishbook, as a kid I always looked through it before my parents and made my list's and as an adult I look through it before my kids get it.

[ElfSpirit]

How fun to look back at those old wishbooks...lots of nostalgia!

[Ralphie]

My grandma had a drawer in her kitchen that she kept magazines and catalogs. As a kid I would always look through the drawer just waiting for the wishbook to come. I still do this!

[jollyheather]

I loved to see all the covers from old to new(er)! It is a great peak in to advert history! Thank you for sharing!