1978 TRAVELERS NOVELTY CATALOG

Sunday 29 July 2018

1978 TRAVELERS NOVELTY CATALOG

We see so much cool stuff pass across our screens each day that Im afraid Im starting to grow desensitized to awesomeness. But heres one fruit of the internet that I wont soon forget. Last October the �ber collector known as Toyranch shared a complete set of scans of a 1978 catalog from the Traveler Trading Company. The set got some attention but I think its worth revisiting since its full so much eyeball-pleasing stuff.

As you are about to see, Traveler was a novelty distributor that offered a wide array of glorious plastic goodies such as toys, jokes, magic tricks, trinkets, cake decorations, carnival prizes and yes, masks. Many of these very items have found themselves in my own collection.

I find it interesting that my pal and novelty biz royalty, Chris Adams, was actually on the Travelers payroll for a time before taking the reigns at the S.S. Adams prank and magic company. Traveler reached its final destination in the 1990s and Gary, the man in the werewolf mask, is no longer with us.

The catalog can be viewed on Toyranchs Flickr account, or for the sake of convenience and blog beautification Ive placed them below. Furthermore, for anyone like myself who wishes to experience these to the fullest, Ive compiled all the high-res pages in this downloadable PDF.

Thank you Toyranch for wrangling up this stampede of joy.