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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 10, 2020 2:16:07 GMT
At home, growing up Time Newsweek Saturday Evening Post Reader's Digest
When I got older, on my own
The New Yorker Harper's
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Post by Charlie O. on Dec 10, 2020 2:36:45 GMT
The New Yorker (a yearly gift subscription from some friends of my parents, bless them) National Geographic Time, later Newsweek instead (not sure why) Reader's Digest, for a while
And I got Children's Digest for a year, wherein I discovered Tintin (The Black Island, serialized - in black and white). Surprisingly, I never got Highlights For Children, despite its being published (still to this day) in my parents' hometown of Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
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Post by souphound on Dec 10, 2020 3:33:15 GMT
That one we got for years and years and years. We had stacks and stacks of them. My grandfather did too. (The fire dept., during one surprise inspection of our house one day suggested (ahem!) that keeping stacks of paper next to the furnace was probably not a good idea.) I actually read them pretty much cover to cover each issue for a few years there. Great mag at the time. No clue about today.
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Post by jeffk on Dec 10, 2020 6:13:15 GMT
Hustler.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 8:16:29 GMT
We got The Radio Times delivered. That was it really.
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Post by DarknessFish on Dec 10, 2020 8:54:34 GMT
I used to get Input and Zzap!64, though Input was largely for my geekier brother. My mum and dad didn't do magazines, just newspapers (The Sun and The Mirror, every day).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 9:33:41 GMT
For the most part, none growing up, until High School, when I got an Omni subscription for awhile..Some Fanzines and American Cinematographer down the road..
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Post by nolamike on Dec 10, 2020 16:31:47 GMT
Not many - my parents were very thrifty. We did consistently get Time. My dad had a subscription to Ring (a boxing magazine) for a year or two, and he and I shared a subscription to Sports Illustrated for maybe three years. But that was it.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 10, 2020 16:42:42 GMT
I don't remember any during the 60s or through most of the 70s, subscriptions seemed rare then. Many magazines were Grocery point of sale items/end caps, or news stands. Late 70s, 80s maybe something. Newspapers were so strong then: city, regional, and local 2-3 of each type, we got them all.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 10, 2020 16:46:01 GMT
None.
Occasionally the old man would bring us home discarded copies of Viz from offshore. I would have been about 9/10. Probably explains quite a lot.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 10, 2020 16:53:49 GMT
Yeah, we didn't get any either.
This looks like more of a US thing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 16:54:46 GMT
Whatever glossy magazine came with the sunday papers and Ireland's own. I got slam magazine when i could.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 10, 2020 16:56:38 GMT
Yeah, we didn't get any either. This looks like more of a US thing. Set aside the subscription thing, I assume your parents bought magazines from a news agent?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Dec 10, 2020 16:58:00 GMT
We're working class Gav. Our parents didn't buy LIFE or National fucking Geographic.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 10, 2020 17:02:02 GMT
so was I, and no dole to nurse off
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