Get excited, it's here, the 1965 Eatons Christmas Catalogue
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veg-o-matic
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I still have a bunch of Sears and Wards catalogs from the 60's and 70's--some of them still have the stuff we wanted circled!
Naturally, we didn't get everything we wanted, but that's what ebay's for, right?
Think I'll drag out my Motorific set and play with it tonight. Been looking for an affordable Switch 'N Go set lately, along with a Mattel Power Shop.
They'll look great next to my Suzy Homemaker SuperOven and Easy Curl hair setter.
It's all about contrast, boys...
veg
Naturally, we didn't get everything we wanted, but that's what ebay's for, right?
Think I'll drag out my Motorific set and play with it tonight. Been looking for an affordable Switch 'N Go set lately, along with a Mattel Power Shop.
They'll look great next to my Suzy Homemaker SuperOven and Easy Curl hair setter.
It's all about contrast, boys...
veg
Kevinpreston3
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GREAT!
Thanks Pete, great looking at those old catalogs. I remember drooling over the Montgomery Wards Christmas Catalogs, then my mom started getting the Sears too.
I remember my friends next door have the Coney Island Playtime.
I had the Mattel Agent Zero gun that folds up into a "camera" also on that page.
Here is my Topper Multi-Pistol 09!
Thanks Pete, great looking at those old catalogs. I remember drooling over the Montgomery Wards Christmas Catalogs, then my mom started getting the Sears too.
I remember my friends next door have the Coney Island Playtime.
I had the Mattel Agent Zero gun that folds up into a "camera" also on that page.
Here is my Topper Multi-Pistol 09!
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Did you say Trik Trak?
This actually DOES work! The idea is that 90% of the track is your floor, the track supplied is just the curves, etc.
This actually DOES work! The idea is that 90% of the track is your floor, the track supplied is just the curves, etc.
imagination powered
Looking through that catalog still gets me excited even to this day. The thing I like about these toys are that they are imagination powered. With a few model Tonka trucks, you could be building a tall skyscraper, or a highway, or some other magnficent creation. GI Joe, of course, you were fighting for America. The thoughts where your mind would carry you and what you could do were limitless. Toys should inspire young minds to think and create!
Just about every toy today contains batteries, and makes noises, lights up, etc. Sort of takes away the idea of creating these things on your own. Usually falling on the heels of televison and movie shows, today's toys come with "canned" stories behind them. The imagination behind the toy has already been done. Most kids these days can tell you the story behind their favorite toy, but if you ask many different kids, you will get the same story...becasue it's fed to them from the manufacturer.
I was a child in the eighties, at the dawn of the electronic era, and toy "series" (trans-formers, He-Man, Voltron, etc) Although this catalog was published before my time, Most of these toys were still very similar and popular when I was growing up. Electronic toys were not really that common even then..there was only the Atari 2600 game console, and the popular Texas Instruments "Speak & Spell" My favorite toys were the old standbys. I had fun "building" all sorts of stuff in the sanpile in the backyard, or rescuing people from crashes on the highways with my ambulance and tow truck. Lego bricks will always be my favorite, and that of many a child engineer!
Looking through that catalog still gets me excited even to this day. The thing I like about these toys are that they are imagination powered. With a few model Tonka trucks, you could be building a tall skyscraper, or a highway, or some other magnficent creation. GI Joe, of course, you were fighting for America. The thoughts where your mind would carry you and what you could do were limitless. Toys should inspire young minds to think and create!
Just about every toy today contains batteries, and makes noises, lights up, etc. Sort of takes away the idea of creating these things on your own. Usually falling on the heels of televison and movie shows, today's toys come with "canned" stories behind them. The imagination behind the toy has already been done. Most kids these days can tell you the story behind their favorite toy, but if you ask many different kids, you will get the same story...becasue it's fed to them from the manufacturer.
I was a child in the eighties, at the dawn of the electronic era, and toy "series" (trans-formers, He-Man, Voltron, etc) Although this catalog was published before my time, Most of these toys were still very similar and popular when I was growing up. Electronic toys were not really that common even then..there was only the Atari 2600 game console, and the popular Texas Instruments "Speak & Spell" My favorite toys were the old standbys. I had fun "building" all sorts of stuff in the sanpile in the backyard, or rescuing people from crashes on the highways with my ambulance and tow truck. Lego bricks will always be my favorite, and that of many a child engineer!
They had the Lego system in this catalog as well as the Meccanno and Tinkertoy stuff. I was probably getting too old for Lego when it first appeared because it didn't appeal to me, Tinkertoy was too tinertoyish, but I really liked Meccano which was similar to Gilberts Erector sets. Every year at the big Supertrain convention here (model railroad clubs convention) there's a mega sized layout of Lego with mountains and cities with Lego trains running around on Lego tracks, it really is something to see, but not quite as interesting as the mega Lionel vintage layout imho
michaelman2
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PeteK..thanks for putting that on the site..I love old catalogs like that. I have a few but am not too computer savvy, would like to share them as well....
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Michaelman2
You don't have to be a computer specialist anymore. Thankfully, there are CHEAP scanners out there now. Simply plug them into your computer, and if Windows does not have a suitable driver for them, it will most assuredly come with one. After the appropriate driver is loaded (it will likely just be plug and play) all you do is place an item in it, under it, etc and let it scan it. You will end up with a jpg which you can then usually resize in any graphics program to get it down to a smaller size suitable for this site and other sites for "publishing". Then just attach it to your response. I love old catalogs, especially the GI Joe stuff when he became part of the "Adventure Team".
Cool.
You don't have to be a computer specialist anymore. Thankfully, there are CHEAP scanners out there now. Simply plug them into your computer, and if Windows does not have a suitable driver for them, it will most assuredly come with one. After the appropriate driver is loaded (it will likely just be plug and play) all you do is place an item in it, under it, etc and let it scan it. You will end up with a jpg which you can then usually resize in any graphics program to get it down to a smaller size suitable for this site and other sites for "publishing". Then just attach it to your response. I love old catalogs, especially the GI Joe stuff when he became part of the "Adventure Team".
Cool.
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Thanks for bringing back some good memories Petek! The Eaton's catalogue was always in our home. When I was a kid we had a Eaton's "Viking" fridge and stove - excellent quality. I think those top-load dishwashers were made by Westinghouse in Hamilton, Ont. (Long since closed).
When my dad emigrated to Canada from the UK in 48 I believe his first job was at Eatons mills, doing what I don't know then he went to work at the Westy plant in Hamilton for a few years until he moved to Fiberglas around 53. He's gone now so I can't ask him about any of the Westinghouse products. Oddly though most all of our appliances were GE and Kenmore. I don't remember us ever having anything Westinghouse.
My first Christmas
This is me on my dads knee Christmas 1956. Dad is sitting on my Lassie dog which I still have btw.
This is me on my dads knee Christmas 1956. Dad is sitting on my Lassie dog which I still have btw.
veg-o-matic
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I'd recognize that face anywhere!
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Saw that post about the Speak n Spell....
Brought back memories....bought one for my oldest daugher back in the eighties, and had more fun, writing cuss words in it, and listening to the robot say...*&%#, &^%$, *&^%$##$%.
Hmmm, nevermind.
I STILL refuse to grow up....now I can do itin full sentences with Windows!
(Hint: makes for GREAT answering machine messages!)
ROFLMAO
Brought back memories....bought one for my oldest daugher back in the eighties, and had more fun, writing cuss words in it, and listening to the robot say...*&%#, &^%$, *&^%$##$%.
Hmmm, nevermind.
I STILL refuse to grow up....now I can do itin full sentences with Windows!
(Hint: makes for GREAT answering machine messages!)
ROFLMAO
