The Mid-century Modern house was everything a growing family could desire: spacious rooms, a kidney-shaped outdoor pool, completely furnished nursery, patio with umbrella table, a weathervane cupola ...

September in the 1960s meant the changing of the seasons, a new school year and the arrival of the coveted Christmas catalogs. For many baby boomers, these toy-filled dream books from Montgomery Ward, ...

One of the most cherished things about Christmas is making it come alive in your home with decorations and traditions. I believe, like many Southerners, that the best holiday decor items are the ones ...

Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...

1. Wishbook Web, the “vintage Christmas catalog archive project,” with online versions of old Christmas catalogs (Sears, Wards, J.C. Penny, FAO Schwarz, etc.) from 1933 to through 1988. 2. Online ...

In the fall of 1965, Sears sent out a 1,810-page catalog. This year's offering is 128 pages. Catalogs might be getting smaller in size, but they haven't gone away. Instead, retailers have found new ...

Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...