Reminds me of the days when my grandmother would get the Sears catalog, and I'd flip through it to the toy section and just drool over what I saw! Just more proof of why being a kid in the 80's was so awesome!
I always loved getting Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs. I would spend hours looking through them and making a wish list of things I wanted which I would almost never get. I did get a Coleco football game, but I had to earn the money to buy it. Boy was I surprised decades later to find out Coleco stood for Connecticut Leather Company.
My Mom used to get both David Weis and Service Merchandise catalogs when I was a kid. I always went to the back as well to check out all the toys and electronics. The catalogs usually came out in the fall, so when I saw something I wanted for Christmas, I'd bug the hell out of my Mom hoping that she'd get it for me. Usually worked. One year I got a Verbot, which was a voice activated robot. Another year, I got a remote control car. I'd stare at those things hoping to get them. I was also into those digital calculator watches back then and always picked something out in a catalog that I wanted. One year, it was a calculator watch that had a video game on it.
I loved looking at that stuff! Seeing those Ghost Busters and Ninja Turtles photos took me back. I used to look at those same catalogs and stare at the toy pictures, wishing I had all of them.
Omg!! I have that mickey mouse phone, the little proffessor, speak and spell and the fisher price movie camera!!! I collect toys from the 70s and 80s. Mostly 80s. This was s great video!!
Loved the video! Shopping at Basco in the '70's-'80s with my mom came to my mind yesterday and I had to search online for it today. Back then, the concept was considered innovative, I guess: goods weren't stocked on shelves but in the warehouse. I remember some stuff was on display, and we also looked through the catalogues. Fill out an order form at the store, and then your order is retrieved and reaches you via a conveyor belt. I remember they were known for low prices.
These were more obscure. We really got thrilled when we got dense catalogs from Wards or Sears sent to us before Christmas. The earliest example of movie franchise action figures (in small scale) was "Planet of the Apes". You could get Mickey phones, Little People, and Speak & Spells as one pointed out. Also those fake cardboard blocks that looked like bricks you could build forts in the basement with, or you could get a fake stand-up fast food kiosk (like Taco Bell), so you could pretend that you liked working in a Taco Bell. The fashionable shirts from the 70's with images on them, make me laugh when I see them in old catalogs. Some of the set designs that they thought would be cool for the 70's to display furniture in were very scary eyesores.
mistanelsin Hi! Thanks a lot for watching! I do record on vhs and then rip it, that is correct. I really appreciate you linking me on Reddit. I have been doing this channel for three years now and I need help getting the word out!
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I love your style. Even your recording method is pure retro. I love the colour tones, 4:3 aspect ratio and hissy audio. LOL Thanks for taking us back to the good ol' days. :)
YES!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!! I have the 1984 David Weis catalog where it says "NO SALE IS EVER FINAL". And they were right, too..... because I look on eBay from time to time to see if any of the items in the catalog can be found and sure enough most of the old toys can be found. And I'm from Pennsylvania too.... and NOTHING was as great as a 1980's childhood here. The world pretty much sucks now.
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Yea you've inspired me, man! I actually dug through stuff and found the '84 David Weis catalog today. What I will do, when I have the time, is put up a thorough you tube photo slide show of it. Keep on the lookout for it, though it will be a few days.Also I see you have a Hills Dept store video up. Ill check that out. We had a Hills where I am from, and around Easter they did a Easter Egg hunt in a bunch of hay. They also had a fireworks display over the store every 4th of July. Not to mention the "Hills is where the toys are" Christmases. And also the racks of Halloween costumes, back in the day when they all had the crinkly plastic masks.Those were the days! And every once in a while they are accessible in very vivid dreams. As far as I am concerned those were the last great days of this country. Too much is changing and the modern children are being short changed.I cringe to see what it will be like here when I am elderly and at the mercy of this generation.
+Thunder 7 I am really looking forward to that video! I think you will enjoy that Hills video. It is as close as you will ever get to "virtually" driving down to a Hills now. Our Hills did the Easter egg hunt and a Halloween pumpkin hunt. I was too old to do those by that time, but I grew up doing those sorts of hunts at other shopping centers and I have great memories of that. I spent LOTS of time at Hills playing the display models of all the latest video game systems. They never kicked me out, though one day I went in and they were all gone. It is a different world now, electronics, the internet...but I am happy to say that the new generation is watching my videos and talking to me about them. It makes me feel good that I can show them how things were back then.
I own one Sears catalog (and one TV guide), ‘80s era. I’m perfectly satisfied with the contents inside my copy, and won’t be hunting to buy more. (The issue of TV Guide was purchased for displaying purposes only, and stands by my trio of boxed Creata fashion rocker dolls; the cover is glamor fashion Falcon Crest soap opera actresses, even though I didn’t watch the show!)😆 I agree, the toy sections of department store catalogs are the best, though some of the toy lines tend to repeat, year after year, with slight variation. I own a few vintage Vogue magazines from the ‘80s; I’ve wrapped things up there, too, with my most intense online hunt for my favorite issue, a minty December ‘84, complete with “flyaway” advertisement card inserts, ending in success, and well worth the effort!!!!!!😮💨😊👍🏻
I worked at the Pleasant Hills store in the late 70's. I still have the dark blue David Weis pencil that you used to write down what item you wanted. I used to have my old David Weis t shirt we had to wear. I wonder where it is now?
back in those days when i had those ghostbuster i remember batman the movie was released. i love the batmobile but not so much the joker. bruce nor viky vale.
Have you ever checked out Wilson's Department Store in Greenfield, Massachusetts? It's the only surviving independent department store in Western Massachusetts.
look at jewelry ads now with watches.the time is always set to 10:10.my friend who I always suspected of being alien noticed that.dudes a left field outta the box genius
I'm very very anti throwing out anything even remotely useful. I'd either sell it, give it away, donate it or re-purpose it....but in the case of that game keep it forever is the only logical option.
We didn't have Basco. But. Oh Yeah... We Had TEMPO DISCOUNT STORES...TG&Y... and OTASCO........ GREAT MEMORIES. Right before KING K- MART Took Over the Era.....
Laffun Heads were designed solely to give 3 year olds nightmares. My grandparents had the old lady version. Someone was kind enough to put the source of my pre-school angst on UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/T8aQKvhNL2w/v-deo.html
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I lived in SE PA (Concordville, PA near Wilmington, DE ) and we had Basco during the mid-70s early 80s. They had a GREAT selection of electronics, better than all the other similar stores. The vast selection and small company size probably is what forced them to see to BEST. I was into shortwave radio and they literally carried a couple dozen models or more! Which was unheard of for a store that was not dedicated to amateur radio related equipment. I still wish I could have afforded the great Panasonic RF-2200, RF-B600, Sony models too!
i still own that ghostbuster that has attach the slim on his chest. i really want to have ghostbusters as a toy. but those man were aweful . that particular toy flip out his googles , hears and hair. really dumb toys.
I don't often detect any traces of a regional accent in your videos, but there might be one here. "Catalog" sounds like "kettalog" to me. Not a value judgment. Just an observation.
i am suprised you dont do voice over work you almost sound like you are a paid spokesman for the store. made me think about a store we had called brand names similar catalogs was a whole ordeal had to wait for your items you chose in the cat to be brought out of the warehouse
Fexican Kringle Yes those places did make you wait while they went to get it from the warehouse. I am an unpaid spokesman for things that don't exist anymore.
I love looking through catalogs! :)
Reminds me of the days when my grandmother would get the Sears catalog, and I'd flip through it to the toy section and just drool over what I saw! Just more proof of why being a kid in the 80's was so awesome!
I always loved getting Sears and JC Penney Christmas catalogs. I would spend hours looking through them and making a wish list of things I wanted which I would almost never get. I did get a Coleco football game, but I had to earn the money to buy it. Boy was I surprised decades later to find out Coleco stood for Connecticut Leather Company.
Every Christmas I flip through the old Sears and Eaton’s Christmas catalogs from the early 80’s.
My Mom used to get both David Weis and Service Merchandise catalogs when I was a kid. I always went to the back as well to check out all the toys and electronics. The catalogs usually came out in the fall, so when I saw something I wanted for Christmas, I'd bug the hell out of my Mom hoping that she'd get it for me. Usually worked. One year I got a Verbot, which was a voice activated robot. Another year, I got a remote control car. I'd stare at those things hoping to get them. I was also into those digital calculator watches back then and always picked something out in a catalog that I wanted. One year, it was a calculator watch that had a video game on it.
Great memories! I used to cut the pictures out and tape them to my list for Santa. Santa didn't seem to understand though!
I loved david Weis. Loved skimming through their catalogs, too
Used to spend a lot of time dreaming of all the things I couldn't buy!
Very cool, I love old catalogs and magazines.
Daniel28021991 Thanks! It's like looking back into another time!
I loved looking at that stuff! Seeing those Ghost Busters and Ninja Turtles photos took me back. I used to look at those same catalogs and stare at the toy pictures, wishing I had all of them.
Yeah that is what kids did back then, those were our dreams.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL
Yes they were.
Omg!! I have that mickey mouse phone, the little proffessor, speak and spell and the fisher price movie camera!!! I collect toys from the 70s and 80s. Mostly 80s. This was s great video!!
+melissa jones I got that Little Professor for Christmas in the late 70s. Wish I still had it, it is one of the many things I didn't keep!
I remember David Weis,my parents used to shop there.there was one in Indiana,Pennsylvania.I didn't realize David Weis was still in business in 89 !!
This is RIGHT up my alley. I am fascinated with such "discovery" Excellent presentation.
This is epic and awesome weird paul... loved the video so very much
Loved the video! Shopping at Basco in the '70's-'80s with my mom came to my mind yesterday and I had to search online for it today. Back then, the concept was considered innovative, I guess: goods weren't stocked on shelves but in the warehouse. I remember some stuff was on display, and we also looked through the catalogues. Fill out an order form at the store, and then your order is retrieved and reaches you via a conveyor belt. I remember they were known for low prices.
Wow, I didn't realise department store catalogues could be so much fun :)
creamofcardstv My sisters and I really spent a lot of time looking through them.
I just stumbled on this. My Pass the Nuts game is still at my parents house. I loved that game
Yep, spent a lot of time "passing the nuts"
I used to tilt it other ways to get the nut to go backward to the rabbit. I was weird I guess. Great video
Oh man, this is priceless. Looking through those old catalogues is like peering back into another world. Thanks for sharing 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Hey Paul, your channel is the best on youtube, keep your video coming.
ministry of puppets Thank you! I've been doing it for over 30 years, not gonna stop now!
For me you are the best vlogger ever! Awesome catalogs :) :) :D
+ItsMeandYou! HD Thank you!!
That’s one of the best videos I’ve seen on UA-cam.
Thank you, Kyle!
These were more obscure.
We really got thrilled when we got dense catalogs from Wards or Sears sent to us before Christmas. The earliest example of movie franchise action figures (in small scale) was "Planet of the Apes". You could get Mickey phones, Little People, and Speak & Spells as one pointed out. Also those fake cardboard blocks that looked like bricks you could build forts in the basement with, or you could get a fake stand-up fast food kiosk (like Taco Bell), so you could pretend that you liked working in a Taco Bell.
The fashionable shirts from the 70's with images on them, make me laugh when I see them in old catalogs. Some of the set designs that they thought would be cool for the 70's to display furniture in were very scary eyesores.
+Twocats Looking through those catalogs was a favorite pastime back then. Always wanted "hugo man of a thousand faces", but never got it.
Another fantastic video!
Joseph Pratt Thanks!
Always liked the toy section, and growing up the ladies underwear bit was quite exciting!😳
Jag Betty Agreed!
Mind blown. This is some seriously high tech stuff. A digital watch? Whatttt? That would be swell.
It Was Probably Aliens Yeah, it even looks like gold or something!
I had to link you on reddit. Your videos are amazing! Do you record on vhs and then rip them? Love everything about you.
mistanelsin Hi! Thanks a lot for watching! I do record on vhs and then rip it, that is correct. I really appreciate you linking me on Reddit. I have been doing this channel for three years now and I need help getting the word out!
No problem! So far everyone I've shown is hooked. You have a very nostalgic quality about you.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I love your style. Even your recording method is pure retro. I love the colour tones, 4:3 aspect ratio and hissy audio. LOL
Thanks for taking us back to the good ol' days. :)
vincedelapena No problem! Thank you for checking my videos out!
YES!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!!! I have the 1984 David Weis catalog where it says "NO SALE IS EVER FINAL". And they were right, too..... because I look on eBay from time to time to see if any of the items in the catalog can be found and sure enough most of the old toys can be found. And I'm from Pennsylvania too.... and NOTHING was as great as a 1980's childhood here. The world pretty much sucks now.
+Thunder 7 I'm glad there's someone else out there that has an old David Weis catalog! It's such a cool thing to have now in 2016!
+ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Yea you've inspired me, man! I actually dug through stuff and found the '84 David Weis catalog today. What I will do, when I have the time, is put up a thorough you tube photo slide show of it. Keep on the lookout for it, though it will be a few days.Also I see you have a Hills Dept store video up. Ill check that out. We had a Hills where I am from, and around Easter they did a Easter Egg hunt in a bunch of hay. They also had a fireworks display over the store every 4th of July. Not to mention the "Hills is where the toys are" Christmases. And also the racks of Halloween costumes, back in the day when they all had the crinkly plastic masks.Those were the days! And every once in a while they are accessible in very vivid dreams. As far as I am concerned those were the last great days of this country. Too much is changing and the modern children are being short changed.I cringe to see what it will be like here when I am elderly and at the mercy of this generation.
+Thunder 7 I am really looking forward to that video! I think you will enjoy that Hills video. It is as close as you will ever get to "virtually" driving down to a Hills now. Our Hills did the Easter egg hunt and a Halloween pumpkin hunt. I was too old to do those by that time, but I grew up doing those sorts of hunts at other shopping centers and I have great memories of that. I spent LOTS of time at Hills playing the display models of all the latest video game systems. They never kicked me out, though one day I went in and they were all gone. It is a different world now, electronics, the internet...but I am happy to say that the new generation is watching my videos and talking to me about them. It makes me feel good that I can show them how things were back then.
+Thunder 7 Fantastic!
Ack! Nostalgia! Noooooo! [flips through old catalogue]
I own one Sears catalog (and one TV guide), ‘80s era. I’m perfectly satisfied with the contents inside my copy, and won’t be hunting to buy more. (The issue of TV Guide was purchased for displaying purposes only, and stands by my trio of boxed Creata fashion rocker dolls; the cover is glamor fashion Falcon Crest soap opera actresses, even though I didn’t watch the show!)😆 I agree, the toy sections of department store catalogs are the best, though some of the toy lines tend to repeat, year after year, with slight variation. I own a few vintage Vogue magazines from the ‘80s; I’ve wrapped things up there, too, with my most intense online hunt for my favorite issue, a minty December ‘84, complete with “flyaway” advertisement card inserts, ending in success, and well worth the effort!!!!!!😮💨😊👍🏻
Although I now own the funnest stuff I've ever had those years were still the best.
Weird Paul is fucking awesome.
***** Thank you for subscribing!!
EPSON? Dang we had one. Mork calling Orson. Thanks Paul. Now I want everything including the Tele-lady. Well not now I guess she's over 50.
Henry S She might be 60!
I worked at the Pleasant Hills store in the late 70's. I still have the dark blue David Weis pencil that you used to write down what item you wanted. I used to have my old David Weis t shirt we had to wear. I wonder where it is now?
2:50
Archie had a Laugh Fun head made up as Santa Claus on a Christmas episode of All in the Family.
Wow! I must have seen that, I watched it every week.
All in the Family, "the draft dodger" here, on UA-cam.
Ah, I really enjoyed seeing that!
Hello from Virginia my friend 👍
Do you remember a catalog from the 80s called Guild Gear ?
I worked at David Weis for 7 years! Bridgeport West Virginia store
I still have the Fidelity Voice Chess Challenger in my closet....
almost died at "pass the nuts"
+Nadronast Walker I played with those nuts a lot.
back in those days when i had those ghostbuster i remember batman the movie was released. i love the batmobile but not so much the joker. bruce nor viky vale.
Where the Altoona David Weis store once stood is now a car dealership
Have you ever checked out Wilson's Department Store in Greenfield, Massachusetts? It's the only surviving independent department store in Western Massachusetts.
I've never been to Massachusetts.
look at jewelry ads now with watches.the time is always set to 10:10.my friend who I always suspected of being alien noticed that.dudes a left field outta the box genius
how are u going with your respiratory problem paul? sounds good. if i die i want leave you all my star wars collection dude
Gustavo Garcia My lungs have been hurting the last few days. I need rest but I never get enough. I don't want you to die!
I have a red version of that piano pfone
Richard Magnelli Dam, you swagmaster Rich
2:50 not going to lie, I thought those were shrunken heads.
They look like them!
Wilddd
I HAVE PASS THE NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that thing rules!!! No idea where it is stored but there is no way that it got thrown out.
If there is a thing not to throw out, it's Pass the Nuts.
I'm very very anti throwing out anything even remotely useful. I'd either sell it, give it away, donate it or re-purpose it....but in the case of that game keep it forever is the only logical option.
We didn't have Basco. But. Oh Yeah... We Had TEMPO DISCOUNT STORES...TG&Y... and OTASCO........ GREAT MEMORIES. Right before KING K- MART Took Over the Era.....
Laffun Heads were designed solely to give 3 year olds nightmares. My grandparents had the old lady version. Someone was kind enough to put the source of my pre-school angst on UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/T8aQKvhNL2w/v-deo.html
0:13 is that Parkway Center Mall?
Coleco? My family members worked there. They brought home Cabbage Patch Kids on the daily... if it's the right company.
Yeah that's right...that's pretty incredible. Do they still have them?
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL I don't think so. They undressed them and got bored. Lol.
Back then weight on shipping was high now in these everything is light weight
What states where Basco in? Just curious
They were in the Northeast, and in Ohio.
Ah Ok becuse I can find barily info on them online
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products
Thanks you rock and roll,All night long
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL
I lived in SE PA (Concordville, PA near Wilmington, DE ) and we had Basco during the mid-70s early 80s. They had a GREAT selection of electronics, better than all the other similar stores. The vast selection and small company size probably is what forced them to see to BEST.
I was into shortwave radio and they literally carried a couple dozen models or more! Which was unheard of for a store that was not dedicated to amateur radio related equipment. I still wish I could have afforded the great Panasonic RF-2200, RF-B600, Sony models too!
👍🏻👍🏻
i still own that ghostbuster that has attach the slim on his chest. i really want to have ghostbusters as a toy. but those man were aweful . that particular toy flip out his googles , hears and hair. really dumb toys.
Gustavo Garcia Yes, there was the one head that spun around and mouth went out all crazy!
make a video showing star wars hasbro toys paul . including ships and weapons... a begger subscriber claim.
Gustavo Garcia I don't have a lot of ships, but I have a lot of figures. I will probably show them sometime!
I don't often detect any traces of a regional accent in your videos, but there might be one here. "Catalog" sounds like "kettalog" to me. Not a value judgment. Just an observation.
My dad is from New England, Joe. So I grew up listening to him talk and didn't take on much of the local accents. You are right on this one, though.
i am suprised you dont do voice over work you almost sound like you are a paid spokesman for the store. made me think about a store we had called brand names similar catalogs was a whole ordeal had to wait for your items you chose in the cat to be brought out of the warehouse
Fexican Kringle Yes those places did make you wait while they went to get it from the warehouse. I am an unpaid spokesman for things that don't exist anymore.
ORIGINAL VLOGGER 80'S WEIRD PAUL Just discovered you now, you're like a walking, talking, breathing, living nostalgia-man!
Roll Fizzlebeef haha, I like that, it's a good description!