i would love to get my hands on a catalogue like freemans or great universal etc from 1975 or thereabouts.does anyone know where i could get one or look at one.cheers, bob

I thought you were going to ask about the famous 1975 sears catalog with the dirty picture

: I thought you were going to ask about the
: famous 1975 sears catalog with the dirty
: picture

ha! that's funny.. I can't believe how many people still remember that..

my recomendation to the original poster is to try ebay.com I get a ton of my Sears catalogs from there (yes, I've been collecting them, they're invaluable for working on my websites)

: ha! that's funny.. I can't believe how many
: people still remember that..

: my recomendation to the original poster is to
: try ebay.com I get a ton of my Sears
: catalogs from there (yes, I've been
: collecting them, they're invaluable for
: working on my websites)

So have YOU gotten that infamous '75 Sears catalog through eBay, ChuckyG??? (What's it typically go for, anyway???) And what was all the fuss about again??? Refresh my memory...

: So have YOU gotten that infamous '75 Sears
: catalog through eBay, ChuckyG??? (What's it
: typically go for, anyway???) And what was
: all the fuss about again??? Refresh my
: memory...

If I'm not mistaken, on page 603 the page is of men's underwear and the model is apparently exposing his private parts…

: If I'm not mistaken, on page 603 the page is of
: men's underwear and the model is apparently
: exposing his private parts…

it's like a $30-$40 issue.. I'm not trying to pick it up at all.. I've seen scans of it, and to me it just looks like a bad camera angle picking up on something else.. others will swear up and down it's really his privates..

I'm actually trying to get a fall/winter and a Wishbook from every year of the 1980s, and one from every decade for the last century. I'm only missing the 30's, 40's and 50's due to the reprints of earlier catalogs for the decade project, and about half of the Wishbooks, and three of the Fall/Winters.. I haven't been actively looking for the last few months, just because they take up a lot of room.. though the wishbooks are a total blast..

: it's like a $30-$40 issue.. I'm not trying to
: pick it up at all.. I've seen scans of it,
: and to me it just looks like a bad camera
: angle picking up on something else.. others
: will swear up and down it's really his
: privates..

here's an interesting auction.. I ended up doing some ebay searches for the ones I'm still missing (found 4).. the link to the auction below has two copies of the infamous catalog, plus a 45 of a novelty song, called the man on page 602.. I had completly forgotten about that song..

: here's an interesting auction.. I ended up
: doing some ebay searches for the ones I'm
: still missing (found 4).. the link to the
: auction below has two copies of the infamous
: catalog, plus a 45 of a novelty song, called
: the man on page 602.. I had completly
: forgotten about that song..

Geez, I had no idea there was a novelty single recorded as a result, too - I'd be curious to hear that one, LOL!

Man, you totally brought back some '70s memories for me when you mentioned those "Wishbooks" - I'd forgotten all about those! Each year back in the mid to late '70s, not long before Christmas, my mother would have me and my brother pick out various things that we wanted from that catalog, LOL!

: Man, you totally brought back some '70s
: memories for me when you mentioned those
: "Wishbooks" - I'd forgotten all
: about those! Each year back in the mid to
: late '70s, not long before Christmas, my
: mother would have me and my brother pick out
: various things that we wanted from that
: catalog, LOL!

Did everyone get to do that circling the "I want" list? I let my daughter do that with the Toys R Us Christmas catologue. She wanted more than 3k worth of toys. I remember totaling $700 in "79" and my parents thought I was greedy.

: Did everyone get to do that circling the
: "I want" list? I let my daughter
: do that with the Toys R Us Christmas
: catologue. She wanted more than 3k worth of
: toys. I remember totaling $700 in
: "79" and my parents thought I was
: greedy.

oh yeah.. I did that too.. funny though.. I never circled thay much.. I was always peculiar though.. my parents ended up getting me like 5 or 6 sets of Lincoln Logs or Brix Blox (Sears rip-off of Legos)..