now no catalogue or sears

now no sears

For those who didn't grow up in the 70s, and circle the gifts you wanted in the Wish Book, or those who did, here's a collection www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/

Sears Christmas catalog was the best reading.

not only sears jc penny etc

yep same here. maybe because it was entertaining whereas school was as boring as watching paint dry.

Which simply means you were a terrible student.

@@malcolmdrake6137 Run along, jr.

Learned more from Grammar Rock than i ever learned in school.

And civics.

I remember waking up one morning to discover my dad had moved the TV and stand into my room. It was only B/W, so not as heavy as a color, but still not easy back then. (Of course, we only had one TV; in the living room, it could be hooked up to the roof antenna, but used its rabbit ears in my room.) I miss you, Dad.

You're lucky I tried to sit and watch cartoons Saturday mornings only to have my father come in shut off the TV and tell me to go clean my room 😢

Hey me too! In fifth grade we had to write it down for a test. When the teacher began to recite it, I said “I know that song”. It was the easiest test I ever took.

glusniffermm Man I’m 52 and I think it’s less weird that we remember that catchy tune and more weird that I can’t remember what I did last week.

@glusniffermm ..."in order to form a more perfect unionnnn"

Me too and I'm Canadian but I still memorized it. Good times we'll never have it so good again.

Me, too

I GREW UP WITH ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS SKY KING CAPTAIN KANGAROO & OTHERS

Me too!👍😃😎🙋

@@avisswope6495 cool 😎✌

And that's the truth Ruth!!😝😝😝😝😝😝😝 you can say that again.

Me too. I loved those years.

yup. had to wake mom up to turn on the tv until i was old enough to figure it out (we had a console tv with a record player and lots of knobs - you had to ask permission to touch it)

Kass me too. I'm 55. We got to watch our cartoons and eat breakfast while we did laundry and cleaned our rooms :) the good ole days💙💗

@@dumbcat boy that brings back memories. H.R. Puf'nstuf, witchiepoo lol I'm introducing all this to my children and my grandbaby🙂

You bet! The only day worth getting up at 0600 for. My parents were hung over from the block party, so my sister and I had Saturday morning cartoons until Soul Train. Lol

6 am? At least. My brother and I were up so early sometimes we caught the end of the farm report. :)

You speak the truth because for most Americans in the 70s and 80s it was Monday through Friday life is normal on Saturday for kids and on Sunday most Americans went to church not so anymore with the millennials in the crab heads we have the day thanks to the liberals

Saturday afternoons we ran Wild and Free all over the neighborhood! Just be home by dark...=)

@@rogerw.coolbaugh5601 It means more Americans think for themselves. Religion is a waste of human potential.

yep. i remember when cartoons started to play on weekdays in the mornings too (if you had cable which most did not). it seemed like an egregious indulgence. i never watched them. only on saturdays

@@rogerw.coolbaugh5601 Thank God most people don't go to church anymore. They're better educated and therefore less prone to believe in fairy tales.

Yep! Be home when the street lights come on or it's your butt.🤣🤣

Timothy K back when it was safe for a kid to be outside without an adult and not around your own house to top it off. I love America but liberals and Democrats sure have turned into a criminal nation.

Derek Hall There was always kidnappings, crimes, murders, since the beginning of time and certainly since the beginning of America. Do some research on that. 1900's , 20's, 30's, 40's, etc. NYC was crazy dangerous in the 70's. The first missing child on a milk carton was in the 70's - and that was likely only because he was White and his father started that campaign. But even White kids rarely got any news coverage until the mid-80's. Most abductions were treated as runaways (even young kids), which is a real tragedy. Police depts. couldn't even share info county to county. There was just no network for that. That started to change in the 80's. Maybe there is more crazy people more crime, and a higher population now, and there is easy access to the internet which fuels pedophiles and copy-cats like school shooters, etc. Decades ago there were definitely incidents of those things (I've read about them), but they were more rare, and NO ONE outside of that city heard about it. Now we have 24/7 sensationalized news channels, 24/7 specifically Crime TV channels, 24/7 internet. Some good changes have been made, like Police departments across the country can network with each other, missing kid pics can be shared on every station and online easily, minorities are getting shared (which rarely happened before the late 1980's), but the negative is a bigger population, and where there is more people, there is more crime, and also we are just way more afraid; partially because of fear from seeing and hearing about it more - just being more hyper-aware, not so completely 'out of sight, out of mind" like decades ago, and partially from there being many more people, all with access to Internet which makes crime easier and perpetrators can cast a much wider global net. Just my opinion, but definitely kids disappeared way back when, people just didn't hear about it outside of their own neighborhood and parents didn't know to be afraid. Now they maybe know too much so are hyper-afraid. My guess is that the U.S. isn't as dangerous as we think, but after seeing so much crime on TV, it's hard to go back to unseeing what you've seen. Such is life in the current time. :/

When the light came on time to get home. Good times

@@X3000Chan It's a million times worse now. There is no punishment or humiliation! The Mexican mafia and the Ctypts have taken over my state. We used to have our windows open 24/7 and didn't worry about locking the doors. The cars were parked on the street and unlocked. We would walk at midnight and go the icehouse when we were teens.

AMEN! I also Grew Up in the 1970,s This Generation of Today! The Good Old Days✌

Me too!👍😍😎

Wow... you painted a wonderful picture of all of our childhoods! Thank you!

@@Leadeshipcoach ....... Awwww, you're so welcome!! I tried giving my son the same memories when he was a child (he's a 90's kid). With a fun breakfast, watching saturday morning cartoons, going to the store and coming home with a new Hot Wheels car. I even brought him those modeling cars. Me, him and dad would sit at the table and put them together and paint them. I really don't think he had that much fun with them when dad and I took over!....lol.... Like I've always said......'My childhood was in the 70's and my teen years were in the 80's!!' Best time of my life!! God bless

I would trade all of my tomorrows just to relive a single summertime Saturday in the 70s.

@@tjsogmc ....... Right?!

@@tjsogmc Not me. I survived the first time. The Good Lord would laugh and tell me I am on my own this time!

Latte Z Yes!!!

Oh yes

Latte Z My Sunday evenings consisted of my favorite meal of boxed Kraft spaghetti (My dear mom made it EVERY Sunday evening for me!) and first there was Lassie, then The Wonderful World of Disney, then I would watch Ed Sullivan with my folks, but only if Topo Giggio was going to be on. Sometimes, my mom or dad would get down on the floor and play a game of Old Maid or Crazy 8's as we watched. Sunday evening was ALWAYS family time, even when the shows changed, but Disney seemed to always be on Sunday's at six! I'm glad I grew up when I did, and knew how to go outside and play with sticks and twine and my Bryer or Johnny West Horses, and Matchbox cars... I never played with girlie toys like Barbie. Heck, my GI Joe drug Barbie by the hair behind his jeep!! LOL!

Latte Z but first you had to watch Hymn Sing and that felt like forever

LadyDragonsblood sounds wonderful. good old days for sure.

AGREED

Hell ya!

Best decade ever!

Luis Seniceros YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!

50s and 60s were more innocent. Today's kids are missing out!

Boomer forever ! I'm a 1963 baby and boomers' last year was 64. I remember these. We had a great time to grow up in the 60s and 70s. But i bet the 50s were great too. Even the 40s for little kids. My mom had the best generation being born in 42. Except for doctors .

@@RepentfollowJesus Me too, born in 1960. A generation is conventionally counted as twenty years, so the Boomers' birth years are 1946 - 66 .... though different people use different dates.

GENERATION "❌" ‼‼‼ 💯% ✔✔✔ I miss the hell out of Saturday mornings in the '70s! I'd wake up before anyone else. Sneak downstairs and turn on the TV, real low volume, so as not to wake anybody up! Grab a BIG bowl of cereal and park my ass 3 ft. in front of it (so I could hear it), LOL! Ahhh... the good ol' days! Gone, but not forgotten! 🍶📺✌

@JL H, LOL! 😂 Oh damn! I remember those! Always hated 'em! I'd dump a bunch of sugar on 'em and force 'em down fast! My step father would always buy Grapenuts cereal too. YUCK! 😝 Just like trying to eat a bowl of tasteless gravel! Oh, well... he was an asshole. He would often chase me off on Sat mornings. Change the channel and watch some stupid bowling show! (Bowling for dollars?) or whatever. He'd say "MEN don't watch cartoons!" I was 5 yrs old! LOL! 😂 I hated him. Loveless, selfish prick. That's why I got up early and tried to be very quiet! 📺🤐✌

SHS854EVER they have their own things

What are you even talking about?

What bothers me is that my kids never knew the magic of Saturday mornings. What with 24 hour Cartoon channels and video on demand. I grew up in the 70s and loved it all. It was a great time to be a kid.

yeah those days are gone

Yeah as they say "the good old days", hahaha I loved watching cartoons Saturday mornings !

staying up late Friday to see some of the new cartoons for Saturday

who remember Gumby & Pokey Blockhead

Here here

Meh, everybody thinks that. The kids today have so many more options. I'd trade the 70s for being young NOW.

lennomenno oh, yeah I want to cry.

lennomenno you aren't a kid tho...let them enjoy their own things

lennomenno Amen 👏❤ me either

You and me both!!!

lennomenno amen to that same here..

Not all kids were loved

You got that right, Lydirius. All we had to worry about in those days were going to school Monday- Friday and church on Sunday. Saturdays were for us. Dad and mom paid the bills and we got to just be kids. I always prayed that GOD would let me do the same for mine.

Yes sir

…then, came the 80s…with the HAIR and the MOVIES and the MUSIC!!

Wish I still had my Lite-Brite!!🙏🏼🥰😁

I def remember collecting and trading stickers

Dandelionwishes 1072 omg I remember those sticker albums!! And begging mom to bring me to the stationary store Anyone who had the scratch and sniff of puffy stickers got to run it in everyone’s face lol

Glitzy Glam it was a fun time for sure!

I collected Garbage Pail Kids. Wish i had them now, they're worth a bunch of money.

And baseball cards....or sending in or the cut out on cereal to get a toy in 4-6 weeks

Yeah it was groovy back then

alannothnagle My brothers loved Quake & Quisp cereal. To me it all tasted like Captain Crunch. Thought it was long gone but I see Quisp in my Giant grocery in PA.

Really !!!!!

it goes to show how programming humans is accomplished. wonder what else that plastic box taught you to do mindlessly. very scary situation at most. i feel we are all so programmed we really are unable to make a decision that is our own.

Yeah, I've forgotten 2/3 of the stuff I learned in college, but I still remember Hong Kong Fuey.

God didn't make KZfaq, developers and software engineers did. I thank them for their hard work, as well as the content creators who put stuff on it.

Yes, thanks so much for all this, i remember ALL OF IT, my favorites were looney tunes and pink panther 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

Agreed, smiling again!

These were good times, grandmama and everyone alive. I miss those days.

How about the Funky Phantom ? In the build up to the Bi Centennial, even cartoons were getting into the act.

AMEN!!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌

The good years, what ever happened to the censorship?

@@suekuntz1567I hate censorship

@@suekuntz1567 Gone, and good riddance to it.

Very well said. This stuff brought a tear to my eye too

Yeah, there's definitely something about nostalgia and all the memories that come rushing back when you associate some type of media to how much simpler and easier your life was back then. I'm a 90s kid, and this video doesn't do anything for me. It's pretty interesting though. A lot of the commercials are the precursor to the ones I'm used to from the 90s, like the Lite Brite tune. I think I even remember don't squeeze the Charmin unless it's just something I heard about from my parents. And the 90s even had a version of Land of the Lost. So it's kind of cool to see how things evolve. But I think we can all agree any decade before smartphones and social media is superior.

Isn't it sad that it's not shown on TV anymore?? I learned so much from Schoolhouse Rock!!!

@@rene2033 Thankfully, I have the entire series on DVD. My daughters have watched them repeatedly. They're in high school, and like to watch before midterms. My younger daughter was even in a production of "Schoolhouse Rock, Jr." She got to yell, "Hoorray! I'm for the other team!"

My favorite was The Electric Company and it taught me so much!

Yeh. Most of the lyrics to "Interjections" came back to me, as fresh as memory can get. My favorites were "Conjunction Junction", "No More King" (if that's the title?), "Electricity, E-lectricity", and "Mother Necessity".

@@georgetrapp6666 Years ago in college Calculus class, I was wondering if they could make some catchy learning songs for calculus, lol.

hey brother do me a favor the instant the time machine is invented let me know so we can go back to the swinging seventies

VogonPoet67

Yeah, kind of like the visible strings in *_Thunderbirds_*

Right? I just watched it today, saying "ugh, that's done with a garden hose, or something. And look at all the Styrofoam!"

Hope u r rich now

I watched on b&w as well. I didnt see most of these shows in color until they became available online. The funny thing is, my memories are in color. I suppose the happiness of childhood can do that...🌈

Hey Jon, I feel your pain. You are not alone in respect to the black & white tv. 👍🏽

I think I might have you beat, we came to US when I was 6, born 62 in Canada, parents from Ireland stopped there first then had kids, we too were not rich though I didn’t realize my Dad supported the family on slightly more than minimum wage and was able to buy home, we still own, in Southern California. We only had black/white but I remember family coming to visit from Ireland and my Dad went to Sears and bought color TV on credit. As soon as he came back from the airport when they headed back home the TV went back that day to Sears. One last thing I got married in 1981 and my Dd said he would buy me a TV, I was thrilled. We went to the BEST to buy and he picked out a black/white, I wanted color of course but told my Dad how much I loved and appreciated it, kids today aren’t always that appreciative of what they get, imho anyway. Thanks for letting me share, I recently lost both my parents and my 35 year marriage came to a shocking and sudden end. I too yearn to go back to a much simpler time, no worries or responsibility, yet back then couldn’t wait to be a grown up out in my own.

It was late 70s before our first color tv. I remember watching Fat Albert for the first time and being mesmerized by all the colors

I know right memories especially school house rock interjections and josie and the pussycats that was our day

Yep- simpler times. And after cartoons, we would go out and play without worrying about being abducted.

@@moonleverette5611 Conjunction Junction what's your function...

i used to hate when 12pm came

This does bring up good memories of growing up.

I know what you mean. I call the 70s the last free ride. You could wake in your parent's backyard from a party the night before and not worry about someone knocking you in the head. we still had a little Innocent's back then. At least we had a good childhood.

Pete Kondolios how dare you diss Lost Saucer!

david I feel the same way I tell that my wife all of the time. it sucks now.

Okabe Black Be there, done that. lol

Pete Kondolios agree

Reggie Cox I know......crazy.

That would have been awesome!! HR Puffingstuff and Banana Splits were my favorites. I still occasionally watch. Thanks for sharing!

Land of the Lost was my fave!

WOW!!! I loved that show!!! Electric Woman and Dyna Girl was my favorite!!

I would have paid to be on that ride!!😊👍

Wow, he is lucky! I would have had hundreds of questions for him too!

4Sho

Better times for me without a doubt!

The best!!!

Omg! I remember creature feature!

Life was good.

it end with the last cartoon at 12pm than a short news break how many people remeber only three networks tv went off at 2 am

Shane Joyce I'M 41 I AGREE!!!

Could not agree more.

hell it'd be worth it just to relive the golden eras of music.

Me too. Im. 51. 70s were the greatest!. The commercials were good too..Loved Josie and the Pussy cats and Speed Buggy, H. R. Puffin stuff, land of the lost, Sigmund and sea monsters😍

It was most of it on the original cartoon Network and then boomerang now it's mostly crap snot stuff on them now! I wish they had a network that had only this stuff!!!!......

Brock Landers my Philco was bright orange,and lasted forever.

Yes we did

Agreed Bro.😊 Chest Rockwell

It was an awesome time to be a kid😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@Kathy Sanders ~ I don't know about the innocent part. Really, it didn't exist. Nostalgic for cartoon memories ? Sure. But not seeing things as they are, does not make them go away. For some of us, the 70s were a time of innocence stolen.

Back when you had shows to watch even on the weekends

You know it! 🙂

me too brother

I was 12

Your freaking old! I was like one!

jjkhawaiian I was just messing with you man.

ok. I did let loose quite a bit. Don't mind me. I'm crazy.

Your username and comment helped me out. You seem to associate yourself as an 80s girl, but does that mean you think of yourself as an 80s kid, or a 70s kid? I was born in 1987 but since I was only two when the 80s ended I definitely consider myself a 90s kid. You definitely were a kid in both the 70s and the 80s, but which decade do you feel really defines your upbringing? I think being born during the 5 or later of any decade such as 1975, you would automatically become an 80s kid because memories don't really get retained well until you're at least five. So since you were born in 1972 I think you get to pick whether you are a 70s kid or an 80s kid or even both!

Born in 1972 as well. Seeing Night Lights made my eyes teary for some reason. And these may have been more in the early 80s but does anyone remember Monchichi and Hungry Hippo?

I want my MTB You need Boomerang. It had all those old school cartoons from the 1970s/80s. It’s addicting.

I was born in '72 myself so I can totally relate to how you feel. These were some great times!!

Another '72 baby here and yes it was colorful, melodic and the best time to be a child...

Where I live in NYC, there's a supermarket that actually has been stocking Quisp cereal on the shelves for at least a couple of years. Same formula, same great taste, same character on the same blue box (without his ray gun, though). Hope this doesn't change because of the whole coronavirus thing. Tbh, though, I still miss Quake, Orange Quangaroos, Ka-Boom & Freakies.

??? Quisp was Nothing like Cap'n Crunch

LOL about the mouth shredding-I thought I was the only one! Quisp is available at King Kullen right now

Quisp was way better than Quake!

@@nancyomalley9959 Where is King Kullen?

Cap’n Crunch!

Yes yes 👍👍👍😎

@@cubemissy Love the stuff! Yummy!😍😁😁👍

Count Chocula, Captain Crunch, and Fruit Loops and Saturday morning cartoons...great day in the morning!

They were great days , try and get away with Hong Kong Phooey today , you'd be run out of polite society by the woke left so fast it would make your head spin !

I loved that show plus Gumby

100% man I agree with you I seen the same thing

@@rogerw.coolbaugh5601 to be fair . it was sunday and there was nothing else on , that said i would not trade a second of that for drag kid story time hour or whatever perversions go on today

Straywen Love I agree with you hundred percent I really enjoy watching Davey and Goliath

Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle

Don't forget the 60's.

Me too. I was up at 5:00. I Remember the fall preview shows on the Friday before the new shows premiered. It was like Christmas. lol

*Geraldine should've been more appreciative of a White Guy's affection.*

Right 😂😂😂😂😂

That's gay, yeah, loser.

Yup

Ironic, ain't it?

That is truly amazing it was like we had some kookie connection I can't believe it I did the same thing too I thought I was only one doing that now all these decades later we're learning that we all were doing the exact same thing on Sat. Mornings we ruled!👍😉😎😁✌💖

Nope, some were outside doing things.

Then your parents made you go out in the afternoon. to play

@@chaosdemonwolf1 That's not what irony is.

my mom would always give me spagetti and i loved it..lol

Yeah at 5:30 a.m lol!

John Harvey Kellogg, who started the cereal company, was actually a nutritionist!

I can relate to that totally. Im on the same page

Yes I loved being a kid in the 70's best childhood times ever the 80's was also good well early 80's had first child my own in 88 so many fond memories I wish my children could have grown up in a era as good but times changed

Someone get a TARDIS!!!!

So do i

I REMEMBER THAT SONG ONE OF MY FAVORITES I AM A BILL

er, "capitol" hill.

utdc those were my favorite.

These got me through Government class....

@@teamearthman9689 hilarious

farm report at 5am

guyluvsbeauty. Same here. How i miss those days 😪

Amazing, I am eight-years-old again!

+Fred Garvin I did the same thing. We turned out OK . Good kids back then.

Male Prostitute!

guyluvsbeauty exactly

Leo Villa Oak Park, Illinois

Because music, back then until the mid-late 90's was REAL music.

"Daddy, daddy, Do something! Aaaarrrhh!" - Land of the Lost. Had the hugest crush on Holly. I loved watching Hong Kong Phooey, you couldn't get away with that, today. I remember having a Hong Kong Phooey coloring book. I was meticulous about color matching him, his car, and the cat.

@@georgetrapp6666 "You couldn't get away with that, today." I wish we didn't take ourselves so seriously today. And now, dim memories are surfacing of a Hong Kong Phooey coloring book. I think I might have had one, too!

@atrocchia Don't forget what the video game stations are doing to them. They are not being cheated, they are being programmed.

@@yourefuked8542 ...so true

Joe Rivera So true. I was a victim of doing the same.

Lol, yep!

Where did you guys get until 1/2pm? For us it was 12.

@@adriandavis3738 It was probably a timezone thing.

Damn straight!!!!!!

Dolores Huntoon, yes indeed!! The 70's had the best of everything! Music, too!!

lol... i did the same thing!

Mine too!

@Greg Brown kung fu theatre for the win!!!

We always got the kung-fu and monster flicks on Sundays in my area. Saturday late-night was always a campy horror/monster movie from the 50s, right before the midnight station shutdown.

@Greg Brown That, or Second City Television. The local stations were super casual about actually showing what the guides said they were going to show.

Godzilla, Gamera the flying turtle and Giant Robot. I loved the Japanese movies where their lips didn’t match what they were saying.

@@lardawg6794 lol 😂😅😂😅 right

Enterprising Captian that's because People stop thinking for themselves and letting Big Corporations and the Media Brainwash them😔just like in Today's world...And now Everyone wants to sing the" shoulda coulda woulda song😔....Damn shame

Enterprising Captian Let alone that we'd live to see it happen.

Edward Creter Female Assholes😃..like really?...You're funny thanx for the laugh😊..have a nice Day Mr.Lawrence Welk😃🙏

Edward Creter epepepppaapaapePEPEeeae

Enterprising Captian I AGREE!!!

jeff platz Ikr me too😭😔😢

Yes! Me too!!

Ditto

He seemed convincing enough, and the point was made. It was the saddest thing I've seen in my life. I couldn't clean up the world, but I sure as hell kept my room clean.

yeah, it's classic

@@axel4196 Of course he was convincing, have you never heard of Sioux-cilians? :)

@@fscap811 🤣🤣🤣🤣You nut! Have a 🍅. **SPLATT**

Shaun S. I played 3 Is A Magic Number for my daughter when she was 7 and she told me it was “cringe”

@@danieldaniels7571 😆

Both them and Filmation dominated both the '70s and '80s.

Hanna Barbara!!!!!!!!!!

the American Shepherd HELL YA

Absolutely and cartoons were drawn by true artists and not drawn by what looks like a five year old

@@ScorpioBornIn69 Warner Bros.;, Rankin-Bass, and DePatie-Freleng/FIlmaiton sucked. Did they even READ Veronica and Reggier before they changed those teens?

You too? We are lucky because we have DVD's and youtube to bring back our childhood memories. I don't feel old because with this new technology we can watch our old cartoons. It keeps me young - just think we used to get up early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons.My teen age son doesn't get it.

Same schedule 📅 time and date to match ?

Don't look BACK! Look FORWARD! The BEST is yet to COME! If all we have is gone, there's no excitement in living! Jesus said, "Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Revelation 22:20b

@@SOULRELIEF22 You don't think you're being a tad overdramatic here?

Rich Johnson, I grew up in NYC (the Bronx), I was born in '51 and everything that you said holds true for me. Great memories....