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Recons' Catalog Project
« on: November 08, 2009, 06:39:27 AM »
Guys,

 For years I have been tossing around the attempt at building a comprehensive Christmas wishbook library from 1978-1985 covering the Star Wars offerings. This has pr oven a tough task thus far, I have had some fantastic help From SW forums member AndyR over the years but I need your help.

 What I need are either hard copies of the old wish books put out by Sears, JC Penny, Montgomery Wards, and so forth. Just the pages showcasing SW or high quality scans of the full pages.

I will keep compiling what I have been building but it's only 25% complete. This will be a fun way to look back and to chronicle some of the offerings evolutions as some ads showed prototype offerings rather than production ready pieces.

I will eventually post a list of where we are, right now I am adding to a database and will keep you guys posted.


Collected images from
1978:

Montgomery Wards


1979:

Sears (US)
Sears (Canadian)

1980

Sears (US)

1981

1982

Sears (US)

1983

1984

Sears (US)
Montgomery Wards

1985

Sears
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2009, 06:47:30 AM »
Here is an example sized to fit of what I am looking for, This is from the 1978 Montgomery Wards catalog

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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2009, 07:14:27 AM »
I will see what I can do. I would love to get my hands on some large, high rez images of the Monkey Wards or Sears ESB offerings. I got to circle my wants for my mom and that walker got circled every year, but I never got one. Boy this brings back happy memories as I did get some of the things I circled.
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2009, 07:15:57 AM »
You can get your hands on those ;)   Once i get this stared just copy the pic on a SD card and take it over to Office Max of a similar stor eand boom, instant memories.
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2009, 07:20:29 AM »
Quote from: Reconsgt on November 08, 2009, 07:15:57 AM
You can get your hands on those ;)   Once i get this stared just copy the pic on a SD card and take it over to Office Max of a similar stor eand boom, instant memories.

You can bet I will be making one poster size!
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2009, 07:23:54 AM »
I better get to the 80s then so you can see the Walker in it's glorious ad form
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2009, 05:39:08 PM »
Quote from: Reconsgt on November 08, 2009, 06:47:30 AM
Here is an example sized to fit of what I am looking for, This is from the 1978 Montgomery Wards catalog



Dang I love that picture.  I do believe that is the exact same page I looked longingly at for hours back in the day.
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2009, 05:43:27 PM »
Here's another one for you guys then, I know this one will make a certain person drool

I really love these old ads for the same reason as you stated BR, I spent countless hours pouring over these
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2009, 05:31:19 PM »
updated with listed images,

I need anything not listed ;)
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2009, 05:34:15 PM »
I asked my mother if she had any since she's a huge packrat about weird things, and I thought for SURE this would be something she'd have kept.  Unfortunately, she did not.  I'm always on the lookout!
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2009, 05:38:02 PM »
Thanks for checking,   These are not the easiest to find since they were not meant to be kept.   Hunting is fun, but it's getting frustrating
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2009, 12:02:37 AM »
My grandparents are pack-rats too...
2 years ago we went to their house and looked at all the models my dad and I put together, Dioramas we had built with war models... even some old crap I built out of broke toys and junk that gave me more fun than lots of other stuff they bought.
They even still had some of the old catalogs from when I was little.... pages all marked up and circling what I wanted...
None of them were in too good shape, marked up and discolored pages and all.
If we get back there any time soon, I will try to remember to take some pics of anything noteworthy...
Or anything at all still there...
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2009, 04:59:31 AM »
I would love to see some pics of those military dios, Dana. That was a former passion of mine.
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2009, 10:10:40 AM »
Mine too... something to do with my Dad that we liked ....
The last model I did was 20+ years ago...
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Re: Recons' Catalog Project
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2009, 07:11:57 PM »
Still looking for more,

 Found this one, I forgot about this add, till I spotted it the other day

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