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27. National Geographic, Mad, Time, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag

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Mon Aug 7, 2023, 11:40 PM

Aug 2023

Highlights when I was little.

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What magazines did you enjoy reading? Can be at any stage of your life. I enjoyed Reader's Digest, [View all] debm55 Aug 2023 OP

Same for me on both counts. FalloutShelter Aug 2023 #1

High school, 60 or so years ago.. Permanut Aug 2023 #2

Great, debm55 Aug 2023 #54

2, 3, 4 decades ago. Time, National Geo, Psychology Today LizBeth Aug 2023 #3

What a great idea debm55 Aug 2023 #55

Consumer Reports but the price went too high. keithbvadu2 Aug 2023 #4

We would read it at the library before me made a major purchase. debm55 Aug 2023 #56

National Geographic TexasDem69 Aug 2023 #5

The repukes would ban GP6971 Aug 2023 #10

We actually have a subscription to NG TexasDem69 Aug 2023 #40

We got Time and Newsweek. Brother got Sports Illustrated debm55 Aug 2023 #57

Mad GP6971 Aug 2023 #6

Spy vs Spy--my favorite in Mad, Miss it debm55 Aug 2023 #58

Oh deb BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #7

I haven't seen a recent edition of Reader's Digest. I really liked the jokes and puns and stories, debm55 Aug 2023 #59

Yesterday I got a September 1973 RD BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #66

Wacky info about Readers Digest BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #72

There was a time when we subscribed to more than 25 magazines. rsdsharp Aug 2023 #8

Must have been that "special offer" where you got the magazine for free but paid for shipping. That debm55 Aug 2023 #12

No, we pretty much paid for them; subscription rates, but a couple ran about $75/yr. rsdsharp Aug 2023 #20

WOW debm55 Aug 2023 #60

When I was a kid we got National Geographic, the Saturday Evening Post Ocelot II Aug 2023 #9

Ocelot II very selections debm55 Aug 2023 #61

The Saturday Evening Post back in the late 50's, early 60's beveeheart Aug 2023 #11

Good choices debm55 Aug 2023 #62

Look and Life were in my house. Then Time and Newsweek. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2023 #13

Same here, debm55 Aug 2023 #63

MAD Wicked Blue Aug 2023 #14

My guilty pleasure was MAD. Miss it debm55 Aug 2023 #64

Glamour, Newsweek, Vanity Fair. Polly Hennessey Aug 2023 #15

Great selection , Polly debm55 Aug 2023 #65

Reader's Digest, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Boy's Life. Archae Aug 2023 #16

I used to subscribe to The Nation Deuxcents Aug 2023 #17

Car and Driver plus Road & Track MichMan Aug 2023 #18

When I was in my early teens I also read Readers Digest cover to cover. MLAA Aug 2023 #19

Time, Mad, Sports I, Bicycling, Rolling Stone, work related, musical Silent Type Aug 2023 #21

NG, Smithsonian, Natural History, grumpyduck Aug 2023 #22

1963--Mad, Marvel Comics... First Speaker Aug 2023 #23

We had Life, National Rifleman, Outdoor Life and Readers Digest growing up. nt doc03 Aug 2023 #24

Did anyone else read "In These Times"? DBoon Aug 2023 #25

Oh c'mon. I'll say it Playboy. Ok I didn't actually "read" it. captain queeg Aug 2023 #26

National Geographic, Mad, Time, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag Bristlecone Aug 2023 #27

I forgot about Alfred Hitchcock's magazine mockmonkey Aug 2023 #30

Read Time, preferred Newsweek BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 #68

When I was a kid, I read Life and Time magazines ailsagirl Aug 2023 #28

From age 8 to 25 mockmonkey Aug 2023 #29

Rolling Stone. Omni (and the digest-size SF magazines, Analog and highplainsdem Aug 2023 #31

That is so funny, Prairie_Seagull Aug 2023 #46

Highlights, Sixteen, Tigerbeat, Mad, Seventeen, Cosmo, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue LeftInTX Aug 2023 #32

Same plus MAD, Victoria, and Dragon GPV Aug 2023 #34

Just a few of my favourites: niyad Aug 2023 #33

Mother Earth News Emile Aug 2023 #35

High Times Emile Aug 2023 #36

2 out of 3, debm! True Dough Aug 2023 #37

befpre things got crazy onethatcares Aug 2023 #38

Not real big on magazines, but like the Economist... malthaussen Aug 2023 #39

MAD, and my great-aunt's vintage collection of "National Geographic." Paladin Aug 2023 #41

Life magazine, Newsweek magazine and Readers Digest. All 3 from about JR high until....? Fla Dem Aug 2023 #42

CoEvolution Quarterly BluesRunTheGame Aug 2023 #43

National Geographic. Elessar Zappa Aug 2023 #44

I read somewhere that National Geographic was going to stop publishing. Haven't seen anything since. debm55 Aug 2023 #50

Life, Time, National Geographic, New York Mag, Arizona Highways,The New Yorker, OMNI... electric_blue68 Aug 2023 #45

So did I , at the B and N cafe. debm55 Aug 2023 #49

👍 electric_blue68 Aug 2023 #69

I still have 85 issues of Rolling Stone. Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #47

Are they worth anything? debm55 Aug 2023 #48

Antique dealers have offered me $1 a piece. Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #51

Oh, I would hold onto them. debm55 Aug 2023 #52

Yeah, that's what I'm doing. n/t Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #53

Several. And now the clinic where I work has removed all the mags from the waiting areas. Laffy Kat Aug 2023 #67

Oh, how could I forget MAD magazine, and later Rolling Stone! electric_blue68 Aug 2023 #70

Cycle and Cyclenews. Hotler Aug 2023 #71