They went out of business in 2019.
But, these guys are still around.
I had been under the impression that they had been acquired by this company. However, on closer inspection, only the brand names were acquired; they’re selling random crap under the TYNKE name, but it’s not the same oddball merchandise Johnson Smith was selling.
Ah, American Science and Surplus! I’ve been to their Geneva store many times—it’s a wonderful place.
Was it the Lillian Vernon catalog?
Printed catalogs for anyone under about 75 seems like wasted money to me. Even my mother has Amazon figured out.
But the Lego catalogs actually make a sort of perverse sense; a lot of kids under about 12 or so don’t have internet access, or if they do, it’s monitored and rationed, and probably somewhat intermittent. Printed catalogs get that advertising into their hands, where they pore over it, circle the sets they want, etc… just like we did back in the day with similar stuff.
Otherwise, I’m with the rest of you- they go straight in the trash. At best, they remind me that the store exists, and I may go look it up online. But a postcard would more than suffice for that, and at less cost, I’m guessing.
Frontgate usually had a few pages in the Skymall catalog on airline flights.
BTW, what I particularly like are the ones for particular industries or trades. Just about every industry has specialty catalogs and it’s interesting what they need.
HS should sell The Shredder for shredding their catalogs when you are done with them.
Not just “The Shredder” - “The Titanium Blade Hi-Tech Programmable Shredder”
On the other end of the spectrum, I will browse the McMaster-Carr catalog all day long. Well, for at least an hour.
Those guys are great!
No, they make nice dream books, and you can dog-ear and circle gift hints.
If they had any sense of humor, McMaster-Carr would also have a listing for industrial grades of Unobtainium. Well, sure, that material is at least temporarily not available, but still.
I haven’t done that in more than a decade…
Ladies, gentlemen, and others, I give you The ULINE catalogue.
That’s a fun catalog but I was turned off by the owner’s politics.
Which “That”? ULINE?
Tell me you don’t mean Johnson Smith!
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I might be interested in the naked women playing cards but I imagine feeding them would get expensive!
Think of all the money you save on clothing.
I used to love Scientific American magazine for one of its odd quirks. Their long picture captions were always composed so that even the bottom line was always justified right in a perfect block of text. Also, in high school, I could understand most of the articles.
I throw one of those away every month or so, it’s the only catalog I get anymore.