April 14, 2008
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75 Years Ago, Day Before Yesterday, and Now
My new album of images scanned from 3 issues of National Geographic Magazine published in 1932 and 1933 is HERE. Greyfox bought the magazines at a recent gun show. He, Doug, and I all agree that the ads are the most interesting parts, but there is a lot of bizarre and/or beautiful stuff in the articles, too.
I will be adding more images from time to time. Scanning is hard work because I’m trying not to destroy the magazines in the process. Images in the album (when viewed at full size) are big enough to read the text, and they are captioned with historical notes.
On Saturday, I wrote, “I’ve forgotten more than I’ve learned in this life.” Then, instead of explaining what I meant by that, I suggested that readers could guess. There were a few incorrect guesses and nobody hit it on the nose, so I explained HERE.
Cats, lovely felines….
Comments (10)
How cool is that!
I like the title of 75yr ago…..
I love the old stuff. I have a finance journal that belonged to my grandparents. The prices of the items listed just blows my mind!
Love the kittikens!
I’m off to view your new album. Have a good one.
What darling cats!!
And yes, I’m with you on old adds. The ones in old comic books are just so…odd….but I’m sure they’d say the same for ours.
I love reading ads from way back when
Beautiful cats for sure. Hope you have a right nice day over there xoxo Tynee
I love old magazines myself, I find them to be somewhat humorous, the views of life were so different just a mere 75 years ago. Thanks for the input, I am leaning in that direction but unsure still, Hope you are doing well and Im so glad you are writing again. That means you are feeling healthy and that means alot. abrazos
Cats are awesome.
I love kitty cats. Are those yours? I have a kitten wh is 10 months old. He kind of resembles the black and white kitten in your second photo.
The old National Geographic’s are real treasures. I love advertising from that era. Have you ever been to The Institute of Official Chee? Cool stuff to be found. http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html
RYC: Ok, you have officially stumped me. What is Kimchee?
Nice to meet you. Thanks for breezing by.
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Yes, they are my cats.
That link was new to me. Interesting.
Kimchee is… think sauerkraut, only Korean, fermented longer, more flavorful.
Kitties and old magazines…awesome stuff.