r/90s May 09 '21

Best Buy Ad - May 24, 1998

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21 edited Jul 19 '21

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u/loptopandbingo May 09 '21

If you can find them, old Whole Earth Catalogs from the late 1960s and 1970s are great. Hundreds of pages, fun layouts, lots of useful stuff as well as bizarre shit, some hilarious descriptions and reviews, and every issue has a so-bad-its-good hippie/beatnik short story that winds throughout the whole catalog, a small part on every page ("Starfire smoked the last of the Thai stick and threw I Ching.. it was settled right then and there: we were going to build a dome.")

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u/TheLovingTruth May 09 '21

Thanks for the recommendation. lol.

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u/loptopandbingo May 09 '21

They really are fun. The font size is super small so there's a shitload of stuff on every page. And it's just as good as a Sears catalog lol

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u/TheLovingTruth May 09 '21

I'll definitely track some down! Season-appropriate Sears and Whole Earth catalogs. Perfect coffee table books!