A Look Inside FAO Schwarz's Catalog of Dreams

As a child the holidays started at our house — at least in my imagination — not in December but in November. That's when the FAO Schwarz toy catalog arrived. It's hard now, in this age when everything, at least virtually everything related to commerce and consumption, is only a click or two away to conceive of a time when one's dreams were funneled through the United States Postal Service.