New Vintage Catalog Website (Sears, JCPenney, Montgomery Ward)

[toploadloyalist]

I've just discovered the website http://christmas.musetechnical.com has shots of every page of many catalogs (Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter, Christmas) from Sears, JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward. Now's the chance to see how their appliances evolved over the years without having to pay for subscription![this post was last edited: 12/23/2021-19:06]

 

[customline]

Wow !!!!

This is amazing !!!! Well organized too, thank you for sharing.

 

[Chetlaham]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

I can't say how much this made my entire Holiday! I absolutely love, love, love looking at old appliances from the 70s and 80s. Wish I had a time machine to buy a Penncrest washer, JCPenney micro, some old Kenmore belt drives, a soft heat dryer, and a Kenmore WP Power Clean. Few Maytags of course. Not excluding all those small appliances. In those years the pinnacle, the crest, the peak of white goods had been reached. Character, Speed, Performance, reliability, longevity, dependability, solidness, charm, hypnotic effect, enjoyment, compliment and the user having immense gratefulness of existence in the moment, where all present in a glorious magnum opus.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Thank-you

 

[whitetub]

Thank you. Amazing website. Love those catalogs.

 

[askolover]

My grandmother had several Sears catalogs from the 70's but they got tossed when she broke up houskeeping.  I'm glad these are posted online now.  I can find things I remember from my childhood.

 

[washerlover]

This is awesome!!! Thank you for sharing!

 

[extmaxspin]

Thank You!

Just last week I was killing some time after finding the web site that contains all (most) of the annual Christmas wishbooks. Very cool, but for Sears catalogs, that normally meant one featured washer/dryer set on the back cover.

I then went in search of the spring/summer and fall/winter catalogs to see if I could find machines that I've rescued in their original presentations. I did NOT find this page via a generic web search, and was very pleasantly surprised to see this post and find that it was basically exactly what I had been looking for.

Thanks again!

 

[pumper]

Also this one

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http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/

 

[toploadloyalist]

We subcribed to all three of their catalogs! (Sears, Penneys and Wards)

 

[bradfordwhite]

I'm wondering who is doing this marvelous work. What better Christmas present.

Even with those catalog pages loose, they are so thin they don't feed into a standard document feeder. I know, I've tried it with my own Sears catalogs. The pages just crumple up.

Who ever is doing this- THANK-YOU !  

 

[washerlover]

Pumper to the Rescue!

Thanks for sharing — growing up a Montgomery Ward family in rural Northern California, the catalog was always a good source of entertainment!

 

[washerlover]

And there they are, in the Montgomery Ward Spring/Summer 1962 catalog on page 918 items “A” and “B”…my Grandma’s Signature set that got me started with this whole washer thing! I’d give my eye-teeth for that set, or at least the washer. I know a couple of you guys out there have a similar Norge model. If you’re ever ready to sell, please let me know! (And Pumper, I was mistaken on the washer model number…I always thought it was LNC-6223 but it’s actually LNC-6322 according to the catalog).

So who manufactured the front loader washers (and matching dryers) shown on the same page?

 

[bradfordwhite]

Great Feeling

Isn't that great feeling finding models you once knew.

 

Those are good looking machines.  I've never seen these before.  I hope they turn up for you. It's only a matter of time, I'm sure it will happen.

 

They resemble certain Maytags at that time but with the timer to one side.

 

 

 

[bradfordwhite]

Front loads look like

Westinghouse.

 

 

 

[circlew]

Yes, of course they're Westinghouse - just without the slant-front cabinets. They made this style for MW several years before they started using the cabinet for their own brand. The last year for slant-front cabinets was 1963, and Westinghouse restyled their front load sets with recessed side swing doors for 1964. That door didn't work out well for the washer (leaks, rust), so later they went back to<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the style shown in the MW catalog.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Top load MW machines were Norge for many years.</span>

 

[washerlover]

Thank you for the responses. I love the simplicity of the controls and the machines were awesome. The washer with its loud pump and rapid ramp-up spin and of course burp-a-lator agitator. The dryer was amazing with its back-fan that literally blew clothes onto the floor if your opened the door too fast. They don’t make them like this anymore, for sure!

 

[pierreandreply4]

my fav dishwasher but seem the site do not allow saving pics

this is my fav dishwasher had the mechanical timer version when i was a kid my god mother had that model in white but seem the site do not allow saving pics

1976 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 906 - Catalogs & Wishbooks

1976 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 906

christmas.musetechnical.com

 

[toploadloyalist]

Kenmore Dishwashers' 3-level Wash System

Kenmore had just started their triple spray arms in 1976, replacing the Roto-Rack models.