Forget walking to school in the snow, up hill both ways. Those of us of a certain age  have real horror stories to tell our kids.

And now we have documentation.

Comments

[wordworker]

Amazing, this little "internets" thing out there...I have now either received e-mails with these images or seen this lsit posted about 8 times in the last five days.

More frightening, I was at the home of a friend's parents in eastern PA not a year ago, and they still have the beer barrel chair collection proudly serving as the primary seating (and one can only imagine aesthetic delight) in their basement rec room, complete with full bar.

Fun stuff.

[Danny Wright]

I was of about that time -- I don't remember the JC Penny catalog, but I do remember the Sears Holiday Catalog very well -- they sold a ton of NFL merchandise, including the replica helmets that kids could wear. I managed to get three ('Skins, Vikings, Steelers) before they either stopped making the catalog or stopped sending it to us. I also remember heading down to Pee Wee football tryouts at Latham Park with my burgundy brain bucket on and finding out that the helmet was not safe to use by official standards. Didn't have the inflatable air pocket things inside the helmet, just foam padding. Every other kid down there seemed to know what was going on because I was the only one with a helmet from the Sears catalog. That was the beginning and end of my organized football career -- though I did carry over my John Riggins-esque bulldozing abilities over to the neighborhood version of the game.

When I was a kid, there was nothing -- and I mean nothing -- that I looked forward to more from the mailman than the delivery of that catalog each November. I think I'll go to eBay right now to see if any old vintage copies are for sale . . .

[Mad Dog]

Danny,

You may get more than old copies. Seems I heard somewhere last week that Sears was bringing back its Wishbook. Don't know when, but I think it's a great idea/marketing tool. Let's see. Find it in the Wishbook and order it on line. Or put the Wishbook on line and "put these items in my cart."

I'd better start making my list.

MD