What magazines did your family get as kids?

[Mr. FOLLARD]

Dec 10, 2020 16:56:38 GMT ~ / % ? * said:

Dec 10, 2020 16:53:49 GMT Mr. FOLLARD said:

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?

Occasionally. There was no real thirst for weekly or monthly updates in glossy form 🙂

I got subscriptions to a PC mag when I was 14, think that was it.

[Reactionary Rage]

Dec 10, 2020 17:02:02 GMT ~ / % ? * said:

so was I, and no dole to nurse off

Welfare, eh?

[Sneelock]

National Geographic, Reader's Digest & MAD Magazine (the Holy Trinity)

[fonz]

Radio Times and the TV Times!!

[sloopjohnc]

Dec 10, 2020 2:36:45 GMT Charlie O. said:

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.

Oh yeah, forgot National Geographic. We got that too.

[sloopjohnc]

Dec 10, 2020 16:31:47 GMT nolamike said:

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.

Sports Illustrated was my big Xmas present starting around 12 or 13. It was not cheap. I use to tape the full page photos up in my bedroom.

[sloopjohnc]

We got the Redwood City Tribune, later the Palo Alto Tribune. It was independent until 1979 and the Chicago Times conglomerate bought it. Every week, the sportswriters would elect a High School Athlete of the Week where they'd do a line drawing of the person along with some montage drawings of the guy or girl playing the sport. My ambition was to somehow get that. I once scored seven goals in two matches one week, but water polo coincided with football so it was always given to them.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

I remember a few issues of Highlights kicking around the house when I was a kid, but don't recall the contents other than those 'Goofus & Gallant' (sp?) strips.

My mom was getting Gourmet magazine for a while, when my parents and their friends were holding dinner parties (I hope that's all they were) at one anothers houses.

During the 80's my folks subscribed to McLeans, which is a Canadian current affairs weekly, and I used to flip through that one, and especially enjoyed Alan Fotheringham's opinion column on the last page.

For a while in my twenties and early thirties my dad would get me a subscription to Harpers every year for Christmas, and I devoured them. That was during Lewis Lapham's tenure as editor-in-chief, and the magazine was a goldmine of education for me. I soured on it after he left and haven't picked one up since.