I have probably read most of the ones you have. Life was a first rate magazine as I recall.

Also The Saturday Evening Post and for a while, Look Magazine. I couldn't wait for the new issues to arrive.

It was our internet.

In this case, treasure does not mean money. However, you should have a good time going through them.

Some of us are just wired that way.

Somehow I don't think that's one the auntie would have held on to. Unfortunately.

I know, somewhere, there is one that was printed right after JFK's assassination. I remember seeing it when life was still a stressed mess. Now I'm going to have to do some searching.

found it in my Mom's when I cleaned her place out. Along with two copies of the Buffalo Courier Express from the day after he was killed (my dad, the history buff thought both my brother & I should have one), and a copyp of the Minneapolis paper from V-J day.

And I kept them all.

The cover's ripped up, but the rest is intact. It's worth nothing in this condition, but still quite readable.

I have the first issue in very good condition and the 10yr anniversary issue which includes a shot of the first issue.

For exactly the reason you state!

What the HELL were you doing in my mother-in-law's bathroom?

I just found another stack of Good Housekeeping magazines, in the basement! I've already disposed of a big stack of Reader's Digest.

of the hundreds of National Geographics lining the shelves in her basement.

The adverts are time capsules.

looking at the ads in women's magazines beginning right after Pearl Harbor to right after the war ended. For most the war it was all "do your bit", Rosie the Riveter kinds of images; as the war wound down it was "back to the kitchen".

the 70s and no one wanted them, even the local fashion college.

if libraries, schools or nursing homes might be interested in taking these.....

If they don't already have copies. Maybe a public library with a good genealogy section, as they are usually the only folks interested in ancient pop cult besides historians.

-- Mal

Bookman's, here in Tucson, has several warehouse-sized places with vast collections of old magazines.

and I and some of my buddies broke into an abandoned house where I found some newspapers dated 1915 in the basement. It was for the best that that was my one and only foray into breaking and entering!

The headline, by current sensibilities, is VERY offensive - more so for my family because I have a Japanese cousin. For now it remains in my aunt's cedar chest.

I do understand her wanting to save it. Her brother, my Uncle John, was a tail gunner in the Pacific Theater. He was on 2 ships that were hit - one by a torpedo and one by a Kamikaze. He was lucky to survive the war. He lived to be just 64 and I am convinced that what he saw and experienced, during the war, is what eventually killed him.

cover of a real First Lady.

the 50s...How about that ???? Are they worth anything?

But I learned from experience to ask specifically are there any odors. Cuz whew I’ve gotten a couple musty ones. Then you don’t want to give it as a gift. Ick.

Great minds think alike!

He loved the gift. I found them on Ebay.

One of the cover stories made my jaw drop. The title was: "What Jews Believe". Can you imagine seeing such a thing on the cover of a family-friendly mainstream magazine today?

Old issues of Vogue seem to go for the most money on Ebay, especially from the 1960's.

On it.