Hey we fifties kids are still very much alive ya know! Ha ha. What a nice thing for you to do, thumbing thru that catalog. I watched the whole thing. My mother didn't drive and dad didn't like shopping much so through much of my growing up--until mom got a driver's license--she ordered most of our clothing & other essential through Sears & Roebucks, including when we were stationed with dad overseas. I saw her sewing machine and cabinet in there. Got a fairly clear screenshot of the Kenmore 95 with cabinet on the following page. We had it all through our school years. It had a real understated beauty to it. Wish mom had kept it, but she traded it in. I saw the tent dad bought for us kids to camp in the backyard. There may have been a rug that are in some of our old photos, but I couldn't get a fix on it. I looked for their French provincial bedroom set, which I inherited, to no avail, but our living room set or one like it shows up. Thank you I really enjoyed this.
@huddlpj2 жыл бұрын
Wow what a great comment!!!!
@harddriven13442 жыл бұрын
Enjoyable trip down memory lane.
@TheMoni7002 жыл бұрын
Life before the internet.
@huddlpj2 жыл бұрын
Truly!
@kbron32502 жыл бұрын
Average income for a middle class family in 1954 was around $4200 not $12000- stop guessing Patrick
@theflyer49162 жыл бұрын
Great video. Keep up the good work!
@huddlpj2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@dsiegel22753 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. Thanks. In the early 1950s my grandfather and his brothers all pitched in and built a hunting camp together. They built it by modifying an aluminum, one car garage by welding closed the garage door and adding on a regular sized door. The legend has it that they purchased the one-car garage right from a Sears and Roebuck catalog. I was on the edge of my seat as you flipped through the last section of pages, hoping to see one car garages in the catalog! But alas, I didn't see any...
@huddlpj3 жыл бұрын
I checked and I couldn't find it. But thanks so much for watching!
@donovanmcculley2842 жыл бұрын
I was talking to my dad, I guess the earlier additions were actually used for toilet paper after it was not used anymore
@huddlpj2 жыл бұрын
I have heard that too!
@TheHeavenlyHulk3 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@huddlpj3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@tobyesterhase72963 жыл бұрын
Jack Lemon in “The Apartment” some idea what it was like as a low level accountant in the 1950s. Rows and rows of desks, typewriters and phones. Facing I one direction. Better than cubicles.....maybe. Better than open plan workspaces with rows facing each other. Yes!
@huddlpj3 жыл бұрын
Yes - good example!
@natomblin3 жыл бұрын
Everyone dressed so much older than they actually were in the 50s. High school year books were filled with photos of kids dressing like their grandparents. The 40s had class, but the 50s...what happened?
@huddlpj3 жыл бұрын
hahahaha!
@stacybridgeford28293 жыл бұрын
It's not that things have devolved into being less classy lol. It's that now all people are supposed to be represented in media like this. Not just the preferred customer.
@huddlpj3 жыл бұрын
Hi Stacy! Great comment!!! Very true!
@aurumjust55393 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure why, but seeing pictures and media from so long ago is really depressing.