Alden’s 1972 Wish Book Catalog: Seems Like 1,000 Years Ago?
40 years ago … seems like a long, long, long time ago is galaxy far, far, away …
Alden’s (defunct chain that I have never heard of) 1972 Christmas Wish Book …
You can check out the entire scanned catalog at FLIKR.

Or this FAO Schwartz 1959 catalog … I would still play with everything on this page … I think I’d pay $6.95 for the Grand Prix set … I wonder what it would go for today?

The train sets are really Neat!