{"id":15795,"date":"2019-11-10T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T13:46:25","slug":"all-of-the-argos-catalogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/10\/all-of-the-argos-catalogues\/","title":{"rendered":"All of the Argos Catalogues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/argos74slide_rules-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/argos74slide_rules-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/argos74slide_rules-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/argos74slide_rules-320x200.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/argos74slide_rules-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/argos74slide_rules.jpg 1095w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The 1974 Argos catalogue has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/argosbookofdreams.co.uk\/1974-75.html#page=136\">slide rules<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A little slice of UK consumer history: The Argos <a href=\"http:\/\/argosbookofdreams.co.uk\/\">Book of Dreams<\/a>, scanned Argos catalogues from 1974 to present. (Via b3ta)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that all (?) of these are also up at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a>. They&#8217;re a little harder to find, and some don&#8217;t have previews. A decent search for one uploader&#8217;s history is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=subject%3A%22retromash%22\">retromash<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, though \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=argos%20catalogue\">argos catalogue<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d finds more. The Book of Dreams site seems only to have autumn\/winter catalogues, while the Archive has the spring\/summer ones too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little slice of UK consumer history: The Argos Book of Dreams, scanned Argos catalogues from 1974 to present. (Via b3ta) It seems that all (?) of these are also up at the Internet Archive. They&#8217;re a little harder to find, and some don&#8217;t have previews. A decent search for one uploader&#8217;s history is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153retromash\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"All of the Argos Catalogues \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the 1974 one has slide rules ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-46L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}