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Consumer Reports 75th Anniversary
Consumer Reports turns 75 this year. The magazine first hit newstands in 1936. It’s published monthly by the Consumers Union. The following photos were taken from the January 2011 issue.
16 magazine
16 Magazine was essential reading for fans of teen idols in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The primary focus was music and to a lesser degree TV heart throbs. The Beatles, The Monkees and Herman’s Hermits ruled the pages of 16 magazine in the mid-1960s. Here’s a selection of photos and articles from that time.
Life magazine August 4, 1927
If it was this week in August 1927, then this is the issue of Life magazine you’d be holding in your hands. This issue isn’t terribly interesting or valuable. There’s no juicy article by Dorothy Parker or classic illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Still, it’s fun to look at and imagine we’re flappers or dappers, flipping [...]
Crawdaddy! magazine
The founder of Crawdaddy! described his magazine as the first to take “rock and roll seriously.” Crawdaddy! was created at Swarthmore College in 1966 by student Paul Williams. The first issue contained his own writings of music criticism. He mimographed the pages and distributed them at school. Soon after, he recruited other writers to help [...]
Playboy Magazine articles
You can’t judge a magazine by its title — not always. William Faulkner wrote a piece for Sports Illustrated; James Agee frequently wrote for Fortune. Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson were regular contributors to Rolling Stone. And the number of literary giants whose works have appeared in Playboy are staggering. The list certainly competes [...]
Greenwich Village Weekly News
This weeky newspaper was printed for and by residents of New York City’s Greenwich Village. Each issue cost ten cents a copy or you could get an eight month subscription for one dollar. The paper was founded and maintained by a small group of unemployed workers who lost their jobs during the Great Depression. This [...]
American Cookery magazine
Gourmet magazine helped change the way Americans cooked and thought about food in the latter part of the 20th century. In the first half of the century it was a magazine called American Cookery. American Cookery was first published as The Boston Cooking School Magazine. The magazine was founded in 1896 and changed its name [...]
The New Yorker Cartoons – 1920s
For Christmas I received The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. It’s a 600+ page book (with two CDs) and features all of the magazine’s cartoons from 1925 to 2004. Here’s a few as they appeared during the Roaring Twenties.
Fortune magazine
It’s that time of year when mutual funds dole out their capital gains for the year. So, let’s celebrate with a brief look back at the history of Fortune magazine! The first issue of Fortune hit stands in February 1930, four months after the stock market crash of 1929. A yearly subscription rate was $10. [...]
1945 Radio News magazine – Color Television
I’d like to share two brief passages in a 1945 issue of Radio News Magazine. This article was written by Robert W. Ehrlich and it’s about the concept of color television. Keep in mind this was written before black and white sets were in people’s homes! “As world events move closer to the point where [...]