I've spent the past few weeks wishing I could order everything out of this summer 1969 Sears Catalog I scored at
Room Service. From swag lamps to pinch pleat drapes, rugs and bedspreads, it has everything that would solve all my decorating dilemmas. But wait, there's more! You could have ordered indoor/outdoor waterfalls, tractors, folding doors, vinyl flooring, cabinet hardware, awnings, golf clubs, car batteries, stereos, water sprinklers, china, ad infinitum. And the prices! This is a great resource to show what decor trends were going on at the time.
I may have to scan every page for you. Here's a start with the light fixtures:
Those chunky resin lights that you're paying hundreds for on ebay? Their 1969 price was $18.97. Actually the most expensive light on this page is number 18, the
"vivid interpretation of the gay nineties oil-lamp" coming in at $47.97.
These drool worthy, retractable lamps are sweet! Number 9 is the priciest at $36.97. You can click on pictures to make them bigger.
These drool worthy, retractable lamps are sweet! Number 9 is the priciest at $36.97. You can click on pictures to make them bigger.
I have a serious thing for those catalogs. Wow, I want one very much - I've been putting off getting one but I don't know... I really do want one!
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Wow..wow..wow! Where DID all of these lights go?
ReplyDeleteooooh, nice!
ReplyDeleteYes, where did they all go? I see at least a dozen that I would love to have. What a fun catalog. Hope you keep posting pages. How about some drapes? I'll bet there are lots of fun fabrics.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post! I love looking at light fixtures, but hate picking them out. There's just too many choices!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a neat blog, I nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger award. Please stop by for the details! Lisa
Oh lordy--that looks like the inside of our house in California during that time, as well as the house we moved to in Alabama in '68. And I can tell you what happened to all the light fixtures and lamps---my mother redecorated and gave them all to Goodwill. We had that gay nineties oil lamp thing hanging over our dining room table! Now those pull-downs--THOSE are to die for!
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kind regards
Billy
from Glasgow, Scotland
I'd love to think that somewhere is a large Sears warehouse that only one or two people know about and that one day they will offer up its contents to the world.
ReplyDeleteI can dream, can't I?
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Barbara
http://ifididnthaveasenseofhumor.blogspot.com
Sometimes catalogs like these only make me mad, taunting me with things I can't have. Now I know where I'm going once I have an up-and-running time machine!
ReplyDeleteTracy, when I went to buy the catalog and the owners saw how cool it was, I think they had second thoughts about selling it! I promised them "visitation rights."
ReplyDeleteBilly, thanks for that cool music site! Welcome to Retro-luxe!
Lisa, thanks for the nomination! What an honor!
Barbara and Allison, I couldn't agree more. If this secret Sears warehouse is ever revealed to me, I'll let you know!
i would kill for numbers 15 and 16
ReplyDeletebtw your site rocks!
Wow This reafirms the fact that I WILL creat a time machine some day... go back and buy out an ENTIRE "GIBSON'S" store... Too Cool! Where did all this stuff go!? Iv alwyas been Jealous of "That 70's Show" they get all their props clothes everything from Creates at the Sears Wearhouse! They once talked about it in an interview... oh how I wish I had thoes resourses!
ReplyDeleteRetro-Luxe - I'll bet! You can find catalogs online but they tend to be expensive, I've yet to run across on at an estate sale but I know they have to be out there somewhere :)
ReplyDeleteTracy
Tracy, I paid $8 for this Sears catalog...1552 pages of stunning images! I'll post more on Thursday.
ReplyDeletewhat fun I had reading the pic for the lamps! I am rehabing two of the atomic ones now for our remodel. One a 17 and the other a 19 pull down. love, love those lights. And I enjoy reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteI have two vintage Kenmore sewing machines. One is a 158.10503 machine. The other may have been made a few years after your catalog, but I'm not sure. It is a 158.19142 model. I'm wondering if your catalog has pages showing these machines and the attachments available for them, or attachments generally available for Kenmore machines of that era. If so, I'd love to get copies of the pages, if that would be possible. (I'm vintage enough so this was the era of the catalogs I drooled over in real time.)
ReplyDeleteWe were just getting ready to sell our grape cluster lamp at a yard sale this weekend and then I just saw your post. It's the exact one as #17, only in the amber color. I had no idea it was so vintage or where it was originally sold. How cool! I think I have to up my selling price now.
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