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Posted by Bill S on July 9, 2008 at 6:10:17 pm EDT

We are in the process of building a new house. I have been tossing out lots of valuable treasures (aka, accumulated junk). Among other things, I discovered I have more old catalogs than I realized. From the late 1950s and early 1960s - REI, Holubar, Gerry, The Ski Hut, Stephenson, several from England and France, Sporthaus Schuster (Munich), Dolt, Chouinard, The North Face (it says it is their first catalog)... Many of those are long gone. But the prices were really interesting - expedition weight down bags for $50 to $75, and expedition tents for under $100. Chouinard aluminum carabiners were $3.15 each, with discounts for large quantities (25 was considered a large quantity, since only a big wall climber would carry that many).

Do you save old catalogs? Do you ever look back at them?

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• Re: Old catalogs - alan 10:15:39 07/14/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - Bill S 23:59:09 07/13/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - redpatch5 19:38:47 07/13/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - overmywaders 17:39:11 07/12/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - Bill S 20:45:12 07/11/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - The Alpine Phantom 19:18:49 07/11/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - trouthunter 17:10:50 07/11/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - redpatch5 19:49:50 07/10/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - TreeGuy 00:57:29 07/10/2008
• Re: Old catalogs - trouthunter 19:26:26 07/09/2008

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