I will 76 next month and I remember how things were in my youth. I was raised in the rural south. Most of the things we bought came from Sears & Roebuck or Spiegel catalog. We got a new one every year. Bought everything from baby chicks to a .303 British Enfield rifle $13.00 if I remember correctly. All came by U.S. rural mail carrier. Now we have to order every thing on line so as not to contaminate ourselves. I miss those old catalogs. To hell with that new fangled toilet paper. By the way I am a rural mail carrier in eastern Montana and I have delivered baby chicks and I do have an out house. Just mite have to start using it again.
Funny how things come back around.
- Thread starter ckrifles
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JMayo
Silver $$ Contributor
Lol, yeah so many of the "kids" I deal with were born no later than 85.
This Change is making them crazy because they've never experienced change.
I was telling them about chicken pox and how it was something to get and get over while young.
Some the fear was on their face...
This Change is making them crazy because they've never experienced change.
I was telling them about chicken pox and how it was something to get and get over while young.
Some the fear was on their face...
Peterson1
Gold $$ Contributor
In case you start utilizing the out house and you run low/out of catalogs maybe we can solve that dilemma.
I'm from Iowa (The Corn State) and we have a surplus of corn cobs both red and white. I think the proper sequence is 2 reds and 1 white and your good to go!
CLP
I'm from Iowa (The Corn State) and we have a surplus of corn cobs both red and white. I think the proper sequence is 2 reds and 1 white and your good to go!
CLP
You guys are bringing back memories for this old codger. Todays younger people have little idea of what a great reference the Sears catalog was back in the day, in addition to its "other uses". I'm about a month older than you, ckrifles, and treasure growing up in the rural south and, in the summer, at my grandparents' place in the Big Woods area of north central PA in a county that only had 1 high school for the whole county - when busing came along for school, my cousins up there had one comment, lol, "What's the big deal? 90% of us are bussed to school."
hoz53
Gold $$ Contributor
im 63 and i remember waiting everyday for the box to come from sears
I was raise in a very rural area in western PA. My dad hunted for food, not sport. He was the consummate big game and small game hunter and game cook. He never displayed any of the antlers of the bucks he took and he shot some nice 6 and 8 points which were about as big as they got in those days because spiked bucks were legal. He used an open sight 30-30 Winchester.
I spent most of my formative years in the woods, trapping, hunting, and hiking. I had a hand me down old Mossberg 22 Rifle with a tubular magazine. I also had a double barrel Sear's 12 Gauge that had been my grandfather's who was an avid pheasant hunter. I got quite good at rabbit and squirrel hunting. Average at pheasant hunting - never was much of a shot gunner.
I had a pet crow that I raised from chick. It had somehow fallen out of the nest. Of course I had a dog, every boy had a collie in those days - Lassie want to be's.
When I was kid there was only 2 channels on TV, CBS and NBS. Soon ABC appeared. Wow three stations!! My Dad and I watched Gunsmoke every Saturday night. It was ritual. I wanted to be a US Marshall but fate drove me in a different direction.
We didn't have much materially but we were happy and content - we had enough. Old Chinese proverb - a man who knows he has enough has enough.
My first center fire rifle was a Winchester Model 70, 243. It was equipped with a 3 x 9 Redfield scope. I hunted deer, groundhogs, and foxes with it. It never failed me if I did my part. Amazing how successful you can be with a 243 and 3 x 9 scope if you know your rifle and are a skilled hunter and field shot.
Married a great woman - still going strong after 47 years.
If I don't make pass COVIR-19 I can say I lived a full and good life.
I spent most of my formative years in the woods, trapping, hunting, and hiking. I had a hand me down old Mossberg 22 Rifle with a tubular magazine. I also had a double barrel Sear's 12 Gauge that had been my grandfather's who was an avid pheasant hunter. I got quite good at rabbit and squirrel hunting. Average at pheasant hunting - never was much of a shot gunner.
I had a pet crow that I raised from chick. It had somehow fallen out of the nest. Of course I had a dog, every boy had a collie in those days - Lassie want to be's.
When I was kid there was only 2 channels on TV, CBS and NBS. Soon ABC appeared. Wow three stations!! My Dad and I watched Gunsmoke every Saturday night. It was ritual. I wanted to be a US Marshall but fate drove me in a different direction.
We didn't have much materially but we were happy and content - we had enough. Old Chinese proverb - a man who knows he has enough has enough.
My first center fire rifle was a Winchester Model 70, 243. It was equipped with a 3 x 9 Redfield scope. I hunted deer, groundhogs, and foxes with it. It never failed me if I did my part. Amazing how successful you can be with a 243 and 3 x 9 scope if you know your rifle and are a skilled hunter and field shot.
Married a great woman - still going strong after 47 years.
If I don't make pass COVIR-19 I can say I lived a full and good life.
Shooter13
Gold $$ Contributor
WOW! Really good memories! We had the Sears catalog but I don't remember ever having the Spegel (they were a little higher class!), if you remember the iconic picture of LBJ (when he declared war on poverty) on the porch of the Fletcher house in Eastern KY they were relatives of mine and my family. We didn't know we were poor until someone told us! We never missed any meals but fried bologna, spam and soup beans and cornbread were staples. I even remember having cornbread in a glass of milk.
ronsatspokane
Gold $$ Contributor
Yeah, I remember those catalogs. Bought my first gun from one. They shipped it right to the house. I was 13 and my brother was 12. We each had a circular paper route (for those who remember circulars) to earn money. He bought a sportorized Argentine Mauser, I bought a full length stock Argentine Mountain Mauser. Both those guns are still around. I gave mine to my youngest nephew a couple years back when passing along family guns. The older nephew has my brothers. Those were ass kicking rifles when we were that age. That 7.65x53 round sure made us flinch after putting a couple rounds down the tube.
I remember getting chicken pox and mom making my brother and sister play with me so they would get them. Then we went to the chicken house behind the barn and set for a while. Suppose to be a good treatment for the pox. Dont know if it worked or not. Just what my grandmother told me.
Dusty Stevens
Shiner
Me and another “old” guy in his 50’s were trying to tell a young guy (born in 99!) how we used typewriters. Of course he hasnt ever watched a movie on vhs or loaded a cassette tape. Pretty funny stuff and lots of memories passing the time at work
Not as old as some but remember the sears catalog and the different
usages for it...lol And getting up Sat mornings and taking the blanket
and watching the cartoons. Old wood stove in the living room would be stoked up and warming. We didn't have much but had family close and was always outside doing something. Started hunting by myself when I was 9. Don't regret nothing about growing up that way. Oh yeah, took baths in a #2 washtub first 4 years ...lol
usages for it...lol And getting up Sat mornings and taking the blanket
and watching the cartoons. Old wood stove in the living room would be stoked up and warming. We didn't have much but had family close and was always outside doing something. Started hunting by myself when I was 9. Don't regret nothing about growing up that way. Oh yeah, took baths in a #2 washtub first 4 years ...lol
Back then, you could buy anything from Sear or Montgomery Ward. I bought engine rebuild kits (rings, rod bearings, main bearings, and gasket sets) for Chevy and Ford engines. Much of our first home furniture came from Sears. WH
Cemetery21
NRA Life since 1975
We had outdoor plumbing when I graduated high school. Went into the service within 30 days and have not had to deal with wasps, spiders or sort out catalog slick pages in the outhouse since. If it comes back around, I guess I can deal with it.
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Lots of great memories there for me too.
We had the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs -they were truly the Amazon of the last Century.
During the TV Western era, Sears had multiple pages of toy gun and holster sets. Very tough decisions.
I knew if I could someday own that bolt action J.C. Higgins, and 4x Weaver scope, my life would be complete.
The post war catalogs had complete bolt-together houses -panels made of leftover steel and aluminum from the wartime production. They are quite rare today, but one of them still exists in my town.
Today's kids view VHS and typewriters as we viewed the Edison round wax cylinders and wind up phonographs.
We had the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs -they were truly the Amazon of the last Century.
During the TV Western era, Sears had multiple pages of toy gun and holster sets. Very tough decisions.
I knew if I could someday own that bolt action J.C. Higgins, and 4x Weaver scope, my life would be complete.
The post war catalogs had complete bolt-together houses -panels made of leftover steel and aluminum from the wartime production. They are quite rare today, but one of them still exists in my town.
Today's kids view VHS and typewriters as we viewed the Edison round wax cylinders and wind up phonographs.
why do companies waste money on catalogs when they have a website
Liven The Dream
Gold $$ Contributor
Well 70 + Wait till Powder comes around IMR in a Tobacco Can $5.24 a pound .
Ethyl $.24 a gal. get 4 Red Crown valve stem caps with a Fill Up on Saturday and a Car Wash by Hand $1.75/ white walls .25 extra.
Balk Oil $.15 a Qt. in a Glass Bottle.
Ethyl $.24 a gal. get 4 Red Crown valve stem caps with a Fill Up on Saturday and a Car Wash by Hand $1.75/ white walls .25 extra.
Balk Oil $.15 a Qt. in a Glass Bottle.
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