Guitars are on page 301

Tico · #1 10-21-2018, 08:30 PM

Lots of Sears stuff floating all around the Internet since they declared bankruptcy.
Here's the Sears "Wishbook" for 1968.

Enter page number at the top.

Talk about a blast from the past!

Index starts on page 276.

http://www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1968_Sears_Wishbook/#300

ahorsewithnonam · #2 10-21-2018, 08:37 PM

Wow, I just flipped through. Reminds me of my childhood.

Rockysdad · #3 10-21-2018, 09:14 PM

hmmmm, now I'm feeling kinda ……………. old.

Blueser100 · #4 10-21-2018, 09:35 PM

We had half the stuff in there. It’s too bad really, Sears was Amazon before Amazon was Amazon.

Steve DeRosa · #5 10-21-2018, 09:37 PM

The #1 New Yorker-style guitar on P. 301 was my wife's first guitar - still has it, BTW: heavy, virtually unplayable neck, tonally dead, built strong enough to survive nuclear holocaust; typical Harmony/Silvertone features for the period, and a reminder of just how high the bar has been raised for even low-end guitar construction/tone in the last 50 years, when you think that you could have an equivalent-size Yamaha, Ibanez, Alvarez, or Godin-family instrument for comparable money in today's dollars...

Gmountain · #6 10-21-2018, 09:38 PM

I love it.

1neeto · #7 10-21-2018, 09:58 PM

Sears filed for chapter 11, not chapter 7. I wish people would know that not all bankruptcies are equal.

Klimski · #8 10-22-2018, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by 1neeto

Sears filed for chapter 11, not chapter 7. I wish people would know that not all bankruptcies are equal.

Yeah, big difference, because Sears is sure to make a huuuuge comeback....

leehop71 · #9 10-22-2018, 08:40 PM

Here was a picture of the electric guitar I took lessons with at the age of 11 in 1964.

The Growler · #10 10-22-2018, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Blueser100

We had half the stuff in there. It’s too bad really, Sears was Amazon before Amazon was Amazon.

Sears was the Amazon in the day. Sears failures are from the last few decades.

They were marketing wizards, the catalog was their internet and the railroad their UPS.

JMFingerstyle · #11 10-22-2018, 10:13 PM

Wow, that reminded me of a guitar I had forgotten I had ever owned...a used Sears Univox electric, with built-in effects (wah, echo, reverb, distortion). It came with an amplifier cabinet with a truly awful 2-transistor amplifier that used to pop transistors all the time. I have no idea whatever happened to that guitar!

Nick S · #12 10-23-2018, 02:29 AM

My first was a red Airline electric from Montgomery Ward. Modern replicas of some of those models are now made by Eastwood Guitars.

Tico · #13 10-23-2018, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Nick S

My first was a red Airline electric from Montgomery Ward. Modern replicas of some of those models are now made by Eastwood Guitars.

The Eastwood replicas are probably much higher in quality and, after adjusting for inflation, much more affordable.

Speaking from experience, the 1960s was a terrible era (an era of torture) for entry-level guitars.
My first wasn't from Sears, but from S&H Green Stamps.

1neeto · #14 10-23-2018, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Klimski

Yeah, big difference, because Sears is sure to make a huuuuge comeback....

I’m just trying to stick to the facts here. Chapter 11 is a restructuring bankruptcy, not a sell everything we’re done bankruptcy. Is sears making a big comeback? Unlikely, but who knows really.

mercy · #15 10-23-2018, 05:39 AM

my first guitar in about 1959 was from a Sears catalogue and it sure gave me the blues, cause it sounded terrible. I wish I still had it though but I loaned it to my daughter for a guitar class at school and never saw it again.