How Things Have Changed

I came across a Flicker site that has scans of the pages from the 1962 Sears Christmas catalogue. It is interesting to read just for the fun of it (remember the inflation conversion is about one 1962 $ = ~ seven 2007 $).

Link to Flicker album of Sears catalogue scans

However, it was of course this page that caught my eye:

With this detail:You gotta love a chemistry set that allows you to work with "harmless radioactive" chemicals. Ah, the 1960's you had to live then to understand.