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New Vintage Catalog Website (Sears, JCPenney, Montgomery Ward)
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Post# 1137046   12/23/2021 at 18:44 (848 days old) by toploadloyalist (San Luis Obispo, CA)        

I've just discovered the website christmas.musetechnical.com... has shots of every page of many catalogs (Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter, Christmas) from Sears, JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward. Now's the chance to see how their appliances evolved over the years without having to pay for subscription!



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Post# 1137111 , Reply# 1   12/24/2021 at 11:21 (847 days old) by customline (pennsylvania)        
Wow !!!!

This is amazing !!!! Well organized too, thank you for sharing.

Post# 1137112 , Reply# 2   12/24/2021 at 11:26 (847 days old) by chetlaham (United States)        
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

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I can't say how much this made my entire Holiday! I absolutely love, love, love looking at old appliances from the 70s and 80s. Wish I had a time machine to buy a Penncrest washer, JCPenney micro, some old Kenmore belt drives, a soft heat dryer, and a Kenmore WP Power Clean. Few Maytags of course. Not excluding all those small appliances. In those years the pinnacle, the crest, the peak of white goods had been reached. Character, Speed, Performance, reliability, longevity, dependability, solidness, charm, hypnotic effect, enjoyment, compliment and the user having immense gratefulness of existence in the moment, where all present in a glorious magnum opus.



Post# 1137116 , Reply# 3   12/24/2021 at 11:42 (847 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.)        

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Thank-you

Post# 1137153 , Reply# 4   12/24/2021 at 17:15 (847 days old) by Whitetub (Montreal, Canada)        

Thank you. Amazing website. Love those catalogs.


Post# 1137331 , Reply# 5   12/26/2021 at 03:41 (845 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)        

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My grandmother had several Sears catalogs from the 70's but they got tossed when she broke up houskeeping.  I'm glad these are posted online now.  I can find things I remember from my childhood.


Post# 1137433 , Reply# 6   12/26/2021 at 20:44 (845 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        

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This is awesome!!! Thank you for sharing!

Post# 1137434 , Reply# 7   12/26/2021 at 21:03 (845 days old) by extmaxspin (Saginaw MI)        
Thank You!

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Just last week I was killing some time after finding the web site that contains all (most) of the annual Christmas wishbooks. Very cool, but for Sears catalogs, that normally meant one featured washer/dryer set on the back cover.

I then went in search of the spring/summer and fall/winter catalogs to see if I could find machines that I've rescued in their original presentations. I did NOT find this page via a generic web search, and was very pleasantly surprised to see this post and find that it was basically exactly what I had been looking for.

Thanks again!


Post# 1137453 , Reply# 8   12/26/2021 at 23:20 (844 days old) by pumper (SE Wisconsin)        
Also this one

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Post# 1137478 , Reply# 9   12/27/2021 at 03:04 (844 days old) by toploadloyalist (San Luis Obispo, CA)        

We subcribed to all three of their catalogs! (Sears, Penneys and Wards)


Post# 1137481 , Reply# 10   12/27/2021 at 03:19 (844 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.)        

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I'm wondering who is doing this marvelous work. What better Christmas present.

Even with those catalog pages loose, they are so thin they don't feed into a standard document feeder. I know, I've tried it with my own Sears catalogs. The pages just crumple up.

Who ever is doing this- THANK-YOU !  smile


Post# 1137596 , Reply# 11   12/27/2021 at 19:58 (844 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        
Pumper to the Rescue!

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Thanks for sharing — growing up a Montgomery Ward family in rural Northern California, the catalog was always a good source of entertainment!

Post# 1137599 , Reply# 12   12/27/2021 at 20:12 (844 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        

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And there they are, in the Montgomery Ward Spring/Summer 1962 catalog on page 918 items “A” and “B”…my Grandma’s Signature set that got me started with this whole washer thing! I’d give my eye-teeth for that set, or at least the washer. I know a couple of you guys out there have a similar Norge model. If you’re ever ready to sell, please let me know! (And Pumper, I was mistaken on the washer model number…I always thought it was LNC-6223 but it’s actually LNC-6322 according to the catalog).

So who manufactured the front loader washers (and matching dryers) shown on the same page?


Post# 1137602 , Reply# 13   12/27/2021 at 20:25 (844 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.)        
Great Feeling

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Isn't that great feeling finding models you once knew.

 

Those are good looking machines.  I've never seen these before.  I hope they turn up for you. It's only a matter of time, I'm sure it will happen.

 

They resemble certain Maytags at that time but with the timer to one side.

 

 


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Post# 1137603 , Reply# 14   12/27/2021 at 20:27 (844 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.)        
Front loads look like

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Westinghouse.

 

 


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Post# 1137606 , Reply# 15   12/27/2021 at 20:45 (844 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

Yes, of course they're Westinghouse - just without the slant-front cabinets. They made this style for MW several years before they started using the cabinet for their own brand. The last year for slant-front cabinets was 1963, and Westinghouse restyled their front load sets with recessed side swing doors for 1964. That door didn't work out well for the washer (leaks, rust), so later they went back tothe style shown in the MW catalog.

 

Top load MW machines were Norge for many years.


Post# 1137614 , Reply# 16   12/27/2021 at 22:30 (844 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        

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Thank you for the responses. I love the simplicity of the controls and the machines were awesome. The washer with its loud pump and rapid ramp-up spin and of course burp-a-lator agitator. The dryer was amazing with its back-fan that literally blew clothes onto the floor if your opened the door too fast. They don’t make them like this anymore, for sure!

Post# 1137636 , Reply# 17   12/28/2021 at 08:05 (843 days old) by Pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)        
my fav dishwasher but seem the site do not allow saving pics

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this is my fav dishwasher had the mechanical timer version when i was a kid my god mother had that model in white but seem the site do not allow saving pics

christmas.musetechnical.com/Show...


Post# 1137715 , Reply# 18   12/28/2021 at 22:47 (843 days old) by toploadloyalist (San Luis Obispo, CA)        
Kenmore Dishwashers' 3-level Wash System

Kenmore had just started their triple spray arms in 1976, replacing the Roto-Rack models.


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