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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 19:06:22 GMT -5
Growing up, I read Mad every month along with Boy's Life,and DC Comics. my Mom read Readers Digest, and my Dad had True, Argosy, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. My brother John always had a stack of Playboys and National Geographics. Other than True and Argosy, all are still in print. www.madmagazine.com/boyslife.org/These are the to I remember the best, |
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Post by Cornflake on Jul 12, 2014 19:36:36 GMT -5
Yup, Mad, Boy's Life, Reader's Digest. Life was also welcome for the photography. Alas, I didn't discover my brother's girlie magazines until adolescence.
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Post by millring on Jul 12, 2014 19:42:44 GMT -5
Sports Illustrated. Highlight of the week. Read back to front.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 19:58:41 GMT -5
Mom was a librarian, and every Saturday when she got off work at 5:30, she'd bring Time, Life, Look, Newsweek and US News & World Report home with her. I'd also read Boy's Life and National Geographic. And my late brother would usually buy Mad.
I also liked to read Scale Modeler and Model Railroading when I was a kid.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 20:12:35 GMT -5
Reader's Digest, Time and Smithsonian were the ones we had. My Mom's folks had Saturday Evening Post delivered.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 20:13:32 GMT -5
Come to think of it, Nat Geo was on the list as well at both houses, and I have the first color cover ca 1942 banging around here somewhere.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 12, 2014 21:21:08 GMT -5
My folks have a bookshelf full of National Geographics from the mid-fifties and beyond. I grew up on those, Mad Magazine (loved Fester and Karbunkle) and Boys Life. Life was around, and becaue I was a kid the pictures comng out of Vietnam scared me. The one that brought my mind to the horricic was this:  The absolute most horrifying image I've ever seen. We need no war. What a horrible plight for innocent children. I can't imagine. |
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Post by Doug on Jul 12, 2014 21:25:44 GMT -5
Mad, Playboy, Boy's Life, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, and when I was younger Weekly Reader.
Folks weren't big magazine people but from time to time Readers Digest, Life and Look and a few times Time and US News.
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Post by RickW on Jul 13, 2014 0:18:44 GMT -5
Todd, the young lady in the middle, naked, was interviewed not that long ago. She was very badly burned there by napalm - her skin in spots is falling off. She is a very strong together woman now, doing good things, if I remember correctly.
I have always loved good magazines. Read Mad and Readers Digest when I was younger. When older, National Geographic, various motorcycle magazines, Guitar Player, (a great mag in the 70s,) Time, McLeans. The only one I read regularly now is Fretboard Journal, and it's one of the highlights of my reading life. A good mag is a thing to cherish and relish.
Still pick up Reader's Digest when I see them around. Great entertainment.
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Post by theevan on Jul 13, 2014 6:53:16 GMT -5
JAMA. The pics of skin conditions and other unbelievably gross stuff were so cool
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Post by drlj on Jul 13, 2014 8:03:15 GMT -5
As a kid, I read Mad and I was into the DC comics--especially Superman.
My dad got National Geographic for 30+ years. When my parents died, my brother and I had 100's of them we had to get rid of and nobody wants them. Libraries lock the doors when you drive up with a NG collection like that.
When I got into HS, I discovered Guitar Player and I read that for many years.
I think I subscribed to Sports Illustrated in grade school, but I never read it and usually just gave the issues to a sports nut friend of mine. I have no idea why I subscribed to it since I had zero interest in it. I don't think there was a swimsuit issue in those days. That I would have remembered.
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Post by Tamarack on Jul 13, 2014 8:10:52 GMT -5
National Geographic and Readers Digest. National Geographic was responsible for instilling wanderlust that I exercised around my early 20s. Dad read Yachting and my brothers and I read Boys Life.
Read Mad when we could. The conventional wisdom amongst parents and Nice Kids was that Mad was not nice and Nice Kids and proper students shouldn't read it. Mad was creatively written and produced (remember the fold-ins?) and introduced many kids to the art of satire and was indeed responsible for learning critical thinking.
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Post by dickt on Jul 13, 2014 9:18:58 GMT -5
We would pick up Mad at the grocery store when we went with Mom. If you went you got it first and the other two kids would fight over who got it next. There was a period when I devoured Sky and Telescope as I was always planning to build an 8" reflector.
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Post by theevan on Jul 13, 2014 10:01:51 GMT -5
We would pick up Mad at the grocery store when we went with Mom. If you went you got it first and the other two kids would fight over who got it next. There was a period when I devoured Sky and Telescope as I was always planning to build an 8" reflector. I helped my friend and neighbor Keith Imamoto build first a 6" reflector followed shortly by the 8. The distortions on the 6 were too much to bear and we figured if we were going to spend weeks grinding another mirror might as well be an 8. I was 11. |
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Post by dickt on Jul 13, 2014 10:30:34 GMT -5
I had a 3" reflector which I fitted with a homemade astro photo rig. No SLR but I got a few good pics. I Also made a 4"x5" plate box camera with a magnifying glass lens and a tin can. Cars, girls, sports, job etc started taking up all my time by age 15 though
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 13, 2014 11:50:57 GMT -5
Todd, the young lady in the middle, naked, was interviewed not that long ago. She was very badly burned there by napalm - her skin in spots is falling off. She is a very strong together woman now, doing good things, if I remember correctly. You do remember correctly, if I remember correctly. I heard an interview on American public radio. She's living in Canada now, and doing great things with Vietnamese refugees. What a strong woman, but absolutely horrible what she had to go through to be that way. |
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Post by millring on Jul 13, 2014 12:04:18 GMT -5
Crazy to think about, but we wouldn't know each other if not for a magazine.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 13, 2014 12:28:21 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Jul 13, 2014 12:33:23 GMT -5
The Sears Catalogue. . . . , (lingerie section, anyone ? ? ?  ) |
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Post by t-bob on Jul 13, 2014 12:45:46 GMT -5
New Yorker, Cue, Billboard, Popular Science, SI.
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