I recently bought another DVD of old catalogues. It was mainly duplicates of ones I have but appropriately for the season included the Woolworth's 1985 Christmas Catalogue. You certainly won't find any high end equipment in there, more the sort of stuff teens would have received for Christmas. Multiply by 3 to get 2019 prices. You would have been a lucky kid to get the Commodore 64 pack. Does anyone remember thse ? I saw a load of similar ones in an American (Sears?) catalog. I'm too old to have had anything like this. The closest I have is a pack including book about Samantha Fox + a tape with some of her hits. Happy Christmas whether you are in 1985 or 2020
Coincidentally, back in 1985, i, and several hundred other young men, who were all years off considering buying a new car went to see the unveiling of the Peugeot 309 at a local garage. Not because any of us was interested in the car but because a certain Miss Fox was doing the unveiling (of the car that is).
I thought she looked familar! I was looking at the other women in the ad thinking, no headband? then I flipped the page......
Those old catalogs were fun but even today, with the exception of a few products, the stuff is borderline ok. The Christmas Catalog was always the best, we'd spend hours combing through the products. I was always amazed that Sears didn't take the internet head-on in the early 2000's, they already were way ahead of everyone with inventory, distribution, catalogs, customer lists, they just needed the online storefront. Here's another catalog site for you Longman, this is from Sear Christmas 1983. https://christmas.musetechnical.com/
That isn't Samantha in the brochure. The proportions are wrong. or should I say more normal. I guess they just asked some agency for a trendy looking young lady who could hold a lightweight Boombox on her shoulder. Here she is again modelling suitcases and the latest photographic equipment. I had completely forgotten about Disc Cameras.
No, I meant Mystic's Photo. For awhile Disc Cameras were going up in value, I've seen a few for a few dollars but it's not a line I want to add to my shelves. I might have one around here, they were pretty cool looking. Peugeot and Renault left the US back in the mid-80's, they had some neat looking cars but those things couldn't take our salted winter roads and they'd disintegrate. Hyundais were the worst but somehow they survived.
That catalogue is actually on the disc I bought along with about 20 other Sears catalogues. A good thing it was only £5 including postage. It was Woolworths which caught my eye. I guess both companies were too slow to adapt and had loaded up too much debt. Woolworths is sadly missed by people of my generation but their sales were increasingly biased towards media. Where I was living they were the place to buy chart CDs and videos Not only did they sell a lot but they were the main distributor to other shops Where I was living throughout the 1990s they were the place to buy chart CDs and videos. I must have literally spent over £100 on Media in that one shop. The other Woolworths catalogue on the DVD is 24 pages of nothing but VHS cassettes. With 1 1/2 pages of Music there was something for everyone. The stupid thing is that shortly before Woolworths went bust a shop called Wilko appeared selling the other sort of things Woolworths used to sell e.g Clothes Airers, Washing up Bowls, Garden Accessories etc. They seem to be doing O.K. Similarly most of the old Woolworths stores got taken over by discount shops Poundland and Poundstretcher and seem to be surviving.
My late Father bought one in about 1987, to replace the Talbot Horizon he had before. His last car was a Peugeot 306. All bought from the same garage who hired Samantha that one day.
Hyundias yep survived, to say the least, they are on a roll nowdays.. Who could say that in 80s? That Chrysler would be a part of FIAT, moreover I heard that Peugeot (PSA) are considering merging with Fiat Chrysler. And there are China ears beyond PSA, BTW. Soon we'll have one Megacar company , the only in the world.. To hell with that, wife brought me one of my Fav UK magazines..
PSA bought out GMs European operations. You are right about there being less choice. Buy a Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel, or Vauxhall and you get the same chassis and drivetrain. In terms of company value Tesla is now worth more than all the other car manufacturers put together. Place your bets as to what the situation will be in ten years time. Back to media, I guess Youtube killed of the market for tapes (or DVDs) like this. The second one seems particularly poor value.
That's funny Mystic, I read Classic European and you like the American Stuff. I do like the big old USA Vans and Trucks. We had Sears, JCPenny and Montgomery Wards. Wards went downhill first, maybe late 80s? Pennys and Sears still had the big catalogs but just couldn't make it. The Craftsman USA Tools were really nice and their Kenmore Appliances always got high marks. We have an old distribution center here, it's huge maybe 15 stories, but it's a beautiful building with a ton of loading docks. I bet Amazon would be drooling to have had all of that stuff back in the 90's.
