Funny how things come back around.

[SEM]

why do companies waste money on catalogs when they have a website

because of old dudes like me, if this site was any harder to navigate I would ask for the magazine. When I go to a web site looking for something, How do I know if something else exists that I may want, waiting for the next page to load???? would rather thumb through a catalog, Remember the early gift trinket catalogs, Sea Monkeys, Silly Putty, plants that grow on a head shaped pot.... PET ROCKS...... I spent hours looking through them, waiting for some show to come on TV that I was allowed to watch, Captain Satellite, Gunsmoke, The Rat patrol, The Avengers, Lawrence Welk, after we got our first color TV HEE HAW.... Smothers Brothers, life was darn good. High school though was an awaking what was wrong with a gun in your car my back seat smelled like fish bait, just thought that was normal, Your poor ? not until the big city got here

 

[mousegunner]

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

Typewriters and carbon paper to make copies! We used to type some INS documents that had to be perfect, make a mistake start over again, no spell check. When you could erase it was one of this hard rubber erasers that removed paper along with the mistake.....the good old days.

 

[USMCDOC]

because of old dudes like me, if this site was any harder to navigate I would ask for the magazine. When I go to a web site looking for something, How do I know if something else exists that I may want, waiting for the next page to load???? would rather thumb through a catalog, Remember the early gift trinket catalogs, Sea Monkeys, Silly Putty, plants that grow on a head shaped pot.... PET ROCKS...... I spent hours looking through them, waiting for some show to come on TV that I was allowed to watch, Captain Satellite, Gunsmoke, The Rat patrol, The Avengers, Lawrence Welk, after we got our first color TV HEE HAW.... Smothers Brothers, life was darn good. High school though was an awaking what was wrong with a gun in your car my back seat smelled like fish bait, just thought that was normal, Your poor ? not until the big city got here

i'm sorry!

 

[Damfino]

why do companies waste money on catalogs when they have a website

For their discriminating luddite clientele with time and money on their hands.

 

[USMCDOC]

For their discriminating luddite clientele with time and money on their hands.

Hey.. i am eccentric, i just don't have the money to prove it.. but i do have lot's of time on my hands.. at times..

 

[Cecil S.]

because of old dudes like me, if this site was any harder to navigate I would ask for the magazine. When I go to a web site looking for something, How do I know if something else exists that I may want, waiting for the next page to load???? would rather thumb through a catalog, Remember the early gift trinket catalogs, Sea Monkeys, Silly Putty, plants that grow on a head shaped pot.... PET ROCKS...... I spent hours looking through them, waiting for some show to come on TV that I was allowed to watch, Captain Satellite, Gunsmoke, The Rat patrol, The Avengers, Lawrence Welk, after we got our first color TV HEE HAW.... Smothers Brothers, life was darn good. High school though was an awaking what was wrong with a gun in your car my back seat smelled like fish bait, just thought that was normal, Your poor ? not until the big city got here

Oh Yeah Rat Patrol.

 

[ckaberna]

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.

Liked your post. But I Love your attitude toward life & “state of life” with all this vivid crap. Hopefully we will all make it, and continue slinging lead.

 

[mousegunner]

My dad was a big Western Auto customer and I looked forward to the Christmas catalog every year and memorized the toy section. We didn't have a lot of money growing up and even though I wanted the super duper slot car track I knew it was a bit too much. I just looked for something reasonable, gave my parents my 3 picks and they would choose one for me.

I did get a peek just before Christmas to see what I got and carefully retaped the paper.

 

[ronsatspokane]

Oh Yeah Rat Patrol.

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

 

[DickE]

In the outhouse there were multipurpose old catalogs.

 

[ebb]

I can remember going on summer vacation to my aunt and uncles house. One summer there was a guy working on one of the small rooms near the living room and found out he was making a bathroom. It was their fist try at indoor plumbing. Uncle Joe even 20 years latter at 3 in the morning would walk right past that little room and go another 50 yards to the little shack in the back pasture. And yes it had a Sears catalog but it was only if you ran out of real toilet paper.

 

[chop house]

i swear - around here it's like prohibition again. women in the house. i have to hide toilet paper in my sock drawer...

 

[jonbearman]

I was hooked on sears and herters as a kid. I bought a trapper skinning knfe in 1972 for 3 dollars plus shipping and have used it ever since. That thing holds an edge like no other. I miss great companys that were so awesome. My first .22 marlin came from a local chain of store's called Naum Bros, it cost me 32.49 when I was 14 . Same day I bought shot and green dot for another 6 bucks.

 

[jonbearman]

When my neighbor would send us to the store for a carton of cigs they were 3.00 at the corner store with a note to sell them to us. Imagine that. We bought beer for her to the same way and it didn't take long to use the same note over and over for beer for us.

 

[butchlambert]

CK, I hope you live a long time, but hope you don't catch me in age. In the very early days we went behind the chicken house as we had no outhouse. Open the back door and a piece of old concrete was the step. Being very young and cautious about the night creatures I decided to squat off that step instead of going to the chicken house in the real dark. Kinda remember an ass whooping. We first had TV in 1956 when living at Ladd AFB in Fairbanks, Alaska. We were excited to watch the "test pattern". Only one channel and it ran from 6am until 10:30pm.
Mousegunner, I was a Western Auto store manager in the early 60s.

 

[SEM]

I was hooked on sears and herters as a kid. I bought a trapper skinning knfe in 1972 for 3 dollars plus shipping and have used it ever since. That thing holds an edge like no other. I miss great companys that were so awesome. My first .22 marlin came from a local chain of store's called Naum Bros, it cost me 32.49 when I was 14 . Same day I bought shot and green dot for another 6 bucks.

some where a few weeks after turning 18 here in CA that had been the minimum age to buy a long gun, I bought my first mine only NEW no hand me down rifle, A Marlin 60 a brick of plated 22LR a quart or two of Pennsoil out the door for 60.00 was shooting that afternoon, Still have my first Flea Market bought pocket knife Uncle Henery Bone tri folder for 5.00 dosent keep an edge long though needs sharping a couple times a year, maybe if I did not use it every day it would keep an edge, carried it for 49 years, had it 50 years one year while it took a break from my pocket, Sad I searched long and hard went to a gun and knife show and found its duplicate, Back up just not the same, I was getting ready to move a year later turned up my recliner and guess what fell out.....sigh.... never apart since.

 

[Bill K]

Love the stories from fellow OLD guys. We will survive, the young one's have no idea what you talk about, when you mention some of the things being brought up in this post. And that is why they are in panic mode, if this keeps up they will be even more so or be going insane.
And I am waiting for the PETA and anti hunt/fish folks to start wondering how and where their next meal will be coming from.
But then again I am only 81, and in a couple month be 82.

 

[Bill K]

why do companies waste money on catalogs when they have a website

Not everyone, that could be a customer, has a PC to get onto a website, is one good reason.

 

[mousegunner]

CK, I hope you live a long time, but hope you don't catch me in age. In the very early days we went behind the chicken house as we had no outhouse. Open the back door and a piece of old concrete was the step. Being very young and cautious about the night creatures I decided to squat off that step instead of going to the chicken house in the real dark. Kinda remember an ass whooping. We first had TV in 1956 when living at Ladd AFB in Fairbanks, Alaska. We were excited to watch the "test pattern". Only one channel and it ran from 6am until 10:30pm.
Mousegunner, I was a Western Auto store manager in the early 60s.

Got my first new bike from there! It was a really big deal for me . Prior to that I had one from Good Will with a crooked wheel.

 

[Lesloan]

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

Dad told me decades ago that the white ones were to see if you needed any more red ones.