Unintentional ASMR: 1953 Sears Catalog Flip Thru

[@normroberts3468]

Great catalog

[@huddlpj]

Thank you Norm!

[@Luke-lv4ql]

I absolutely love these videos!!

[@huddlpj]

Thank you!

[@woofwoof-w4g]

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.

[@huddlpj]

Wow what a great comment!!!!

[@harddriven1344]

Enjoyable trip down memory lane.

[@TheMoni700]

Life before the internet.

[@huddlpj]

Truly!

[@kbron3250]

Average income for a middle class family in 1954 was around $4200 not $12000- stop guessing Patrick

[@theflyer4916]

Great video. Keep up the good work!

[@huddlpj]

Thank you!

[@dsiegel2275]

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...

[@huddlpj]

I checked and I couldn't find it. But thanks so much for watching!

[@donovanmcculley284]

I was talking to my dad, I guess the earlier additions were actually used for toilet paper after it was not used anymore

[@huddlpj]

I have heard that too!

[@TheHeavenlyHulk]

Great video!

[@huddlpj]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@tobyesterhase7296]

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!

[@huddlpj]

Yes - good example!

[@natomblin]

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?

[@huddlpj]

hahahaha!

[@stacybridgeford2829]

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.

[@huddlpj]

Hi Stacy! Great comment!!! Very true!

[@aurumjust5539]

I'm not sure why, but seeing pictures and media from so long ago is really depressing.