Gamble-Aldens Department Store Catalogs

Gamble-Aldens 1969 Christmas Catalog Cover

Gambles-Skogmo started in Minnesota as an Auto Supply store and expanded regionally into new markets and products with several divisions. Gambles acquired the Chicago-based Aldens (at one time the 4th largest mail-order distributor) in 1964 to merge into a single company - but depending on location there are "Aldens" catalogs, "Gambles" catalogs and "Gamble-Aldens" catalogs - to make things even more confusing, some of the catalogs will have the original "Gambles" logo on the front cover then have "Gamble-Aldens" on the back. In any case, I'm putting them all here.

Gambles 1967 Thrifty Santas Shop at Gambles Catalog

This catalog ad was originally submitted by Ray Kolasa who writes:  "I was fortunate enough to recently acquire a few old toy catalogs from the late 60's. One, a Gambles Christmas circular from 1967, had this cool page of Matt stuff.  Sorry about the relatively large file size, but I haven't yet mastered Photoshop. Still, I think you'll find it worth the download." You can find Ray on Facebook.

Gamble-Aldens 1967 Christmas Catalog

The 1967 Catalog provides most of a color page of Major Matt Mason items, shared with Topper Toys Johnny Astro.

Gamble-Aldens 1968 Christmas Catalog

The 1968 Catalog provides a full color page of Major Matt Mason items, also a DELUXE deal to get all figures plus the Firebolt!

Gamble-Aldens 1969 Christmas Catalog

The 1969 Catalog provides two full-color pages of Major Matt Mason!

Gamble-Aldens 1970 Christmas Catalog

In this 1970 Gamble-Aldens catalog, Major Matt Mason shares a full color page with Commander Carter (the orange Sea Devil), a Remco Adventure Boy with snowmobile, and the new walking Billy Blastoff and Robbie Robot. The two sets shown are for the MMM Talking Flying set and the Star Seeker.

 

 

 

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