Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Famous American Vintage Magazine Illustrators Remembered at a Museum

This is why your old Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Post, Colliers, and other magazines from the early 1900s are valueable!

"The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American Newspaper"

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Monday, January 15, 2007

A Store in Morton Grove has 100,000 Vintage Magazines!

This is so cool -- seems like he has them all!


News to go, memories to last
Chicago Sun-Times, IL - 17 hours ago
Today, he operates a store in Morton Grove, Magazine Memories, that stocks 100000 vintage magazines going back to the 1860s. He's got, for example, ...

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Compilations of old magazines are suddenly popular

Hotel's fare in love and war - Guardian Unlimited

This article is mostly about things that have nothing to do with collectible magazines, but one paragraph stood out to me which is heartening:

"Compilations of old magazines are suddenly popular, and I was delighted to get The Best of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly in my stocking this year. I hadn't realised, but back in the early 1950s it was largely a middle-class organ, often read by boys who went to rugby-playing schools but wanted to keep in touch with their real love, Soccer (the word always had an honorific capital letter)."

Hotel's fare in love and war
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 15 hours ago
Compilations of old magazines are suddenly popular, and I was delighted to get The Best of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly in my stocking this year. ...

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Vintage Magazines Make Great Retro Pendants

I don't think Vintage Magazines will ever go out of style. I found this article about pendants made from the cover pictures of Vintage pin-up magazines, sold by Retro-A-Go-Go.

Provocative Pin-Ups | Tasha’s Closet Blog

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Friday, July 21, 2006

This man got $10,000 for a 1965 magazine!

This is a great argument for hoarding!

Intel gives man $10,000 for old magazine | CNET News.com

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Saturday, July 15, 2006

Pulp Fiction Cover Art Displays the Collectibility of Magazines!

This is a wonderful site with some of the best cover art from the Pulp Fiction era of magazines!

Cover Art from Pulp Magazines, Periodicals and Vintage Magazines

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Old Magazines Help Alzheimers Patients

OK, this is a little off-topic, but I thought it was a testament to the value of old magazines!

Museum trip back in time aids dementia sufferers - Yorkshire Post Today


Museum trip back in time aids dementia sufferers
Yorkshire Post Today, UK - Jun 23, 2006
... The objects include old magazines and newspapers, for news and fashions of the day, toys such as Meccano or dolls, old scales and weights, plus pipes, tobacco ...

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