To share with you all the Argos catalogues back to the mid 70s?

[magicmallow]

Found this on Reddit, it's too good not to share.

archive.org/details/@musicfan100 - searchable full catalogues

dev.argosbookofdreams.co.uk/ - less searchable but cool interface

Wow, it really takes you back to look at them!! Brings back so many memories!! (and, I am a bit shocked at how expensive things were 20+ years ago!).

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All I ever wanted was one of those huge multi diamond rings. Each diamond was about the size of a pinhead. Classy .

megletthesecond yes me too, along with a large princess diana style sapphire ring 😁

I remember the 1988 one

All I kept thinking going through the first few pages was ‘Christ, gold was cheap back then!’ Even with inflation making it roughly double the 94/95 price, it’s quite a bit cheaper.

Thanks for this! For years I’ve been thinking about a toy my sibling and I had as a child. Couldn’t remember the name. Anyway I found it in the mid 80s catalogues!

Amazing! Thank you...

I came across this the other day and had a wallow in nostalgia. Even the bloody covers look so familiar, not to mention all the crap stuff inside that my parents filled the house with Thanks OP!

@QueenArseClangers

worldofcrap.co.uk/tag/index/

My favourite blog often has articles on 80s Argos and Index pages.

Also this is amazing, thanks QueenAC. I may now have a new favourite blog

Bloody brilliant. Thank you OP!! Issue year 81/82 has Soda Streams and budgie cages on the same page

I was sad to hear this news. DS1 (now 19yo, with A Levels) loved the Argos book. He was quite late to talk and we spent ages going through saying "kettle" "table" etc. Somehow he preferred this to normal picture books.

Then when he did eventually speak his first word came when he shouted out "Argos", having spotted the logo on the side of a lorry

Then when he did eventually speak his first word came when he shouted out "Argos", having spotted the logo on the side of a lorry

I love this. 🤣

Love this, thank you op.
I remember thinking I was ever so stylish when I got a gold 4 bar gate bracelet from there on my 13th birthday 🤣 back in the 80s.

I'll have a good scout through these now. Happy Times.

Also remember having this Carmen hairdryer when I had my hair permed. Nearly 30 years ago!!!

Looking through the Barbies, dolls prams and so on, it strikes me how non-pink they are. Nowadays, every bloody thing aimed at little girls is pink.

This is wonderful thank you. I can remember looking through the toys, especially the Barbies

I can picture the 1999 one sat on my Nan's kitchen table.

The one thing guaranteed to keep me quiet when I was little was to give me a pair of scissors and an Argos catalogue. I would turn to the jewellery pages and cut out all the 'diamond' rings and bracelets. I still love sparkly things!

@BitOfFun

Amazing! I'll send it to my brother- he used to memorise the item numbers to list them in his letters to Father Christmas .

My DS does the modern day equivalent with amazon!! He has a wish list set up and saves things he likes to it and then whittles it down to one for his Santa present!

It always amazed me that Argos didn’t capture the market that Amazon did.

@Grumpymum789

megletthesecond yes me too, along with a large princess diana style sapphire ring 😁

I absolutely loved looking at all the rings, and yes, the sapphire ones with diamonds all round were my favourites. My actual engagement ring could not be more different

BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze
You’ve just listed all the toys I ever wanted (and never got!)

Thanks for sharing.

I randomly picked a catalogue and a page number and got a Sony Walkman

1st and 2nd link working for me, just took a while to load. Sweet Jesus the nostalgia, looking through this tonight has made me and my oldest friend very happy, so many memories!

£300 for a sunbed (UV)

I saw a care bear duvet cover & it made me tear up. I think this is a bit too raw for me. Maybe I will look when Im not tired.
Its quite upsetting (rubbish childhood)