Retro Argos catalogues

Dick Swiveller · Dec 3, 2014

Saw this linked on another site. For those of a certain age, the toys pages will bring the memories flooding back. Binatone pong machine anyone? Handheld Pacman? Bigtrak?

http://retromash.com/argos/

Deleted member 18477 · Dec 3, 2014

Amazing! Used to spend hours looking through Argos catalogues. Walkmans, Lego, new football to play in the street, goalie gloves, gameboy games, action man, scalextric, hot wheels, micro machines, new bag for school, watches etc.

I remember spending ages, maybe a few years looking at snooker tables (kids size) before my parents finally got me and my brother one for Christmas! That was one of the Best Christmas days ever!

the days before the Internet really took over!

Grombleton · Dec 3, 2014

dig54 said:
the days before the Internet really took over!

This - it's just not the same going through Amazon/Argos for ideas in the same way as it is going through Argos/Index/Littlewoods catalogues as a kid, highlighting all the cool things you wanted.
Bollocks to growing up, i'm going to pick up an Argos catalogue.

Badger · Dec 3, 2014

Grombleton said:
This - it's just not the same going through Amazon/Argos for ideas in the same way as it is going through Argos/Index/Littlewoods catalogues as a kid, highlighting all the cool things you wanted.
Bollocks to growing up, i'm going to pick up an Argos catalogue.

Exactly, writing my Christmas list used to involve going through the toy section of Argos, Kay's and Littlewood's catalogues and writing down all the things I wanted. Needless to say my list was on an A4 piece of paper, usually split into 2 columns. There was no sending a URL, a page number was good enough.

hoveboyslim · Dec 3, 2014

dig54 said:
Amazing! Used to spend hours looking through Argos catalogues. Walkmans, Lego, new football to play in the street, goalie gloves, gameboy games, action man, scalextric, hot wheels, micro machines, new bag for school, watches etc.

I remember spending ages, maybe a few years looking at snooker tables (kids size) before my parents finally got me and my brother one for Christmas! That was one of the Best Christmas days ever!

the days before the Internet really took over!

Back in the day, the Argos catalogue was the internet of shopping. That and the Freemans and Kay catalogues.

Napper · Dec 3, 2014

That is fantastic.

Prices on the electrical equipment was crazy.

1991 -

£500 for a crappy sound system
£60 walkman

£100 14" TV

brakespear · Dec 3, 2014

great stuff

W.C. · Dec 3, 2014

W.C. · Dec 3, 2014

I've been messing around in the toy sections. How could I forget?? The shower section

Rodney Thomas · Dec 3, 2014

The page full of old Casio watches :blush:

fire&skill · Dec 3, 2014

Great spot.

I am now not going to get ANY work done for the next five or six hours . . .

Bozza · Dec 3, 2014

Grombleton said:
This - it's just not the same going through Amazon/Argos for ideas in the same way as it is going through Argos/Index/Littlewoods catalogues as a kid, highlighting all the cool things you wanted.
Bollocks to growing up, i'm going to pick up an Argos catalogue.

Badger said:
Exactly, writing my Christmas list used to involve going through the toy section of Argos, Kay's and Littlewood's catalogues and writing down all the things I wanted. Needless to say my list was on an A4 piece of paper, usually split into 2 columns. There was no sending a URL, a page number was good enough.

They've had a pretty good stab at recreating it. There is an iPad app which kids can use to create their Christmas list in a far nicer fashion than navigating their regular website. Parental settings set the price range per item and how many items they can choose etc. It certainly captured the imagination of my 4-year old and took me back to the process you describe.

Surrey Seagull · Dec 3, 2014

Rodney Thomas said:
The page full of old Casio watches

I had #5 on that page and loved that watch as a kid. No idea what happened to it. :down:

Bozza · Dec 3, 2014

Are there retro-Littlewoods, Freemans and Great Universal catalogues knocking about?

It doesn't have to be the whole thing, just the lingerie sections will do.

edna krabappel · Dec 3, 2014

Good to see the Elizabeth Duke range of fine jewellery was still delighting ladies (and gents) back in the early 1980s.

ozzygull · Dec 3, 2014

Rodney Thomas said:
The page full of old Casio watches

I was telling my daughter a couple of years ago how I used to love my old Casio digital watch and she bought me a new but retro copy one for my birthday. I loved it, I have some very expensive watches but this is the one I wear all the time and definitely my favourite.

Bombadier Botty · Dec 3, 2014

Argos and Next - still producing hundreds of thousands of old telephone book-sized catalogues for their customers several times a year. Is this 2014 or 1986?

Seasider78 · Dec 3, 2014

There is an obscene amount of black ash furniture in the 1990 edition

JJ McClure · Dec 3, 2014

Having looked at that I can say a) I wish I still had my Star Wars toys and b) I still wear a Casio watch.

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