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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 12, 2010 - 04:00pm PT
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Back when shopping decisions were simpler...Who shopped here BITD?
These early catalogs provide a clear source for lots of exotic early hardware including Eiger carabiners.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:43pm PT
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I've been looking for a new descending hammer.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:44pm PT
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Quaint!
I have a pdf copy of MEC's first catalogue, from December 1971, but it's 2 MB, so not really postable.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:47pm PT
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Mighty Nonsense, it is too. What do you think Steve's posts are, usually. You need to get Photobucket (pro), the size is unlimited, by the way, among many other features.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:48pm PT
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I remember seeing one of those 'descending hooks' and thinking,
"Who designed this, Vincent Price?"
Still have some of those boss ice screws.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:49pm PT
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MEC's first catalogue is 19 pages, and the scan is a single document - someone else's pdf. A page by page scan would be no problem to post, using the SuperTopo or PB system. Reducing a single document that is 19 pages and 2.1 MB to postable size (~100 KB) would make it unreadable. I'll see if I can get it in broken down/postable pieces.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2010 - 04:50pm PT
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I have some repetition but just passed 2500 images in my account! LOL
Classic selection of Marwas...
The slenderest will certainly work as a corkscrew!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:56pm PT
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MIghty Acrobat, of course you can take a portion of your PDF. That is how it had to have been originated anyway, scanned-in pages that were joined in a workbook in Acrobat.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 12, 2010 - 04:56pm PT
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Stevie,
Have you and Mimi broken ground for the new Museum North yet?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2010 - 04:58pm PT
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Still working on all fronts...
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 12, 2010 - 06:53pm PT
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Great catalog blast from the 60's Steve. I don't recall Eiger as a climbing gear distributor in the 1970's, but a distributor named Liberty Organization was based in the same area of California. Maybe they bought out Eiger?? Anyone remember??
Liberty Mountain, a similarly named distributor, with HQ in Utah: only shows a timeline back to 1998 on their website.
On another thread on ST, a question came up about Eiger history. Here is what I found out at the time.
Took a while to find out more about Eiger USA history. Bruce Franks from Asolo & Lowe finally supplied to me the fact that Eiger USA was owned by Mike Sturm.
As soon as I did the Goggle search on that-----of course I ended up right back at SuperTopo where Ed Bannister had answered the question all the way back in Sept 2009.
From Ed Bannister on this thread;
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/948137/Gear_History_what_did_EB_stand_for
Mike Sturm, who originated the Eiger brand in the US
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 2, 2009 - 01:25pm PT
Mike Sturm was quite a guy, he had Stanley and later his son Peter Brozek in Pasadena make the Eiger and later the Liberty carabiner, what a piece of junk. When I went to work for Liberty as Technical product manager, I had KC Putnam deal with Brozek, I did not want to be associated in any way with that carabiner, and yes, if you still have any, take them off your rack. |
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ec
climber
ca
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Dec 12, 2010 - 09:17pm PT
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We used to say, "Give me Liberty and give me Death!"
 ec
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Dec 13, 2010 - 12:44am PT
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Wow, great catalog!
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Cliff wiliams
Trad climber
nj
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Dec 13, 2010 - 09:06am PT
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This was really helpful I have an Allain biner like the one pictured
I was thinking it was from 1960s..Now I know
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Dec 13, 2010 - 09:27am PT
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Fritz...i believe i visited the Liberty warehouse back in 74...i think it was in Sunland...? funky equipment as i recall...rj
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Dec 13, 2010 - 05:01pm PT
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Steve
Boy that brings back memories: Would have been around 1972, I remember the head or distributor for Eiger and that was not the only catalog they had or distributed. Coming back from lunch with him, bought a couple of things cannot recall but on climbing. Gave me current catalog and couple of other catalogs that were under the shelve. We both had funny backgounds.
They also were distributors for let’s see what would you call them? Weapons: One that caught my eye was a prototype for an automatic shot gun. Googled it up and was known back then as the AA-12 Auto Assault -12 or Atchisson Assault Shotgun manufactured in ’72. Guy bought up the rights to it and made some changes now known as USAS-12. Should have bought one when I had the chance Oh! well had other things on my mind besides those.
Will have to dig it up [catalogs I mean]. Give me some time, got me going on this one.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Dec 13, 2010 - 05:45pm PT
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This would have been in La Canada on Foothill Blvd. Plus it was not really a store per say where they had all stuff out to look at. If I recall from the discussion most likely they were feeling out the market for their goods,climbing that is. Got a good discount.
Then moved to other location at some time.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 13, 2010 - 05:51pm PT
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Page 1 from MEC's first catalogue, December 1971. If this works, and is readable, I have pages two and three.
I still have a few Eiger death ovals. They were sold in the early 1970s by Mountain Craft, the tiny store upstairs from MEC's first 'real' outlet, in the classic Dominion building.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
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Readable from here!
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Let us know!