Wow DC, a team yearbook nowadays would run anywhere from $5-$10. That's only priced at 50 cents!

Has anyone (DC or TIS perhaps) seen The Beatles live? That's one of the things I would do if I could ever go back in time, see a Beatles concert live.

Yearbooks now cost $10 bucks each.

I did not ever get to see the Beatles live.

My sister-in-law saw them at Shea Stadium. She said that everyone was screaming so loudly that you could barely hear them. Her dad was with the NYPD and his friend was working security that day, and got her an autographed photo of all four Beatles.

LUCKY! She feel like selling it?

Boy, I wish. They were playing at Cobo Hall (I think) in Detroit. I came very close to attending but couldn't go in the end. I'm so sorry I missed it.

I do remember the hysteria however when Hard Day's Night opened. the unbelieveable lines, and the constant screaming in the theater.


Eddie,

That is a great pic. My Ex had a 37 Ford. It was black when he bought it but he had it painted red. I know nothing about cars, but looking at the engine...so uncomplicated compared to todays. Anyway, one halloween he was a gangster and I was a flapper, so needless to say, we took the 37. It was a whole lot of fun to drive that's for sure.

TIS

I bet it was Courtney Love.

Not a chance. She also has an early Beatles album (can't remember which) that was released on a different label, and then rereleased on Apple. I understand that it's something of a collector's item.

I have a lot of weird stuff...guess I've always been a packrat.

One thing I have that's rather unusual - remember when families used to have milk delivered to their homes in glass bottles each morning? Well, in 1962 (or early 1963, 'cause JFK was president) the round heavy paper inner "stoppers" were printed with a series of presidential portrait drawings, along with the years they served. I have an entire set of thirty-five. This was done by my local milk company in Brooklyn; I have no idea if it was also done nationally.

Somewhere, I have a couple of NY Daily News papers dealing with John Lennon's murder.

Don Cardi - interesting you should mention first day covers. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered my father's first day cover collection which spanned roughly 1932 - 1971. Lots of carefully preserved stuff, but nothing presidential. He did have the coronation of England's King Edward VIII, but that's as close as it got. (Edward VIII would abdicate a year or so later to marry Wallis Simpson.)

I have a barf bag (unused!) that was given out at movie theatres in 1971 when the film Mark of the Devil was shown. It's printed with the film's logo. Yes, I used to collect airsick bags many years ago in my flying days...

I have a couple of 78rpm records from 1927 dealing with the parade and reception for Charles Lindbergh. They are radio transcriptions, issued commercially. One of the records has speeches by "Lucky Lindy" himself and then-president Calvin Coolidge.

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Signor V.

I remember the milkman vaguely. While you'd never see him, there would be a bottle of milk in the aluminum, insulated box on the front porch each morning.

That set sounds great. I remember when I was about 6 our local grocery store would sell these figures of the Presidents that captivated me. They were about 3-4" high standing on a small base that had the names and years in office. They weren't cheap plastic and were painted nicely- they looked like small colorful statues.

They were discounted if your grocery bill was high enough, and my family got several figures. Thnere were a few different presidents available each week. The store had a display of all the presidents right up to the then sitting president, Nixon. I would stare at the elegant display with my brothers and sisters while my mother and father shopped.

I have often wished we had collected and saved all the presidents. The grocery chain was Acme. Does anyone remember them by any chance?

I have a copy of the Life magazine with Charles Manson on the cover.

Also have a geography book from the 1800s...Mount Washington in NH was the highest peak in the US! LOL too funny!

I've saved newspapers from famous events as well. I thought I'd have a REAL "keeper" from the 2000 presidential elections when the New York Post ran the headline that Bush won before Florida's count was done. (I figured it'd be the same type of historical goof as when a paper ran a headline that Dewey defeated Truman in the 1948 election, which was obviously wrong).

From my magazine (historical) related collection:

• The Madison Square Garden boxing program dated February 12, 1965 (50¢). My brother and I went to see Rubin "Hurricane" Carter fight Luis Rodriguez in a 10 rounder (Rodriguez won). (It was a year later that Carter was charged with the death of two people in a bar and was immortalized in a song by Bob Dylan). The program was signed by Rocky Graziano (on the cover) who was sitting near us and by Emile Griffith (inside under a picture of him fighting Luis Rodriguez) - Griffith wrote "My Best Fight - Emile Griffith".
• The May, 1969 issue of "Sport" magazine comemorating 100 years of baseball (50¢).
• 20th Annual Anniversary issue of "Playboy"; Jan 1974, $1.50
• 25th Annual Anniversary issue of "Playboy"; Jan 1979, $3.00
• 30th Annual Anniversary issue of "Playboy"; Jan 1984, $4.00
• 35th Annual Anniversary issue of "Playboy"; Jan 1989, $5.00
• 40th Annual Anniversary issue of "Playboy"; Jan 1994, $5.95
• 50th Annual Anniversary issue of "Playboy"; Jan 2004, $7.99
• 40th Anniversary Celebration of "Esquire"; Oct 1973, $2.00; a truly colossal edition of over 500 pages containing works by the likes of Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Nabokov, Talese, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Thomas Wolfe and Huxley.
• "Time" magazine dated June 23, 1975 (75¢) with cover story on the movie opening of "Jaws".
• "Time" magazine issues dated July 4, 1776 (really 1976) and Sept. 29, 1789 (really 1976) ($1.00 each); they were special bicentennial issues with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington on their respective covers. Both issues reported on stories and events of their day. (Very interesting for history buffs).
• "Time" magazine dated August 25, 2003 ($3.95) reporting on the cover story about the great northeast blackout.

I have MANY newspaper copies collected as well.

Great articles in those right

There were articles in them???

I used to read "Playboy" regularly but no longer do so (don't find it relevant anymore). As much as I liked the pictures I absolutely loved their fiction back in the day...my favorite was semi-regular contributor Jean Shepherd (who authored the famous "Christmas Story" with Darren McGavin).

Of course we remember Acme!



And Playboy? Years ago, it was one of the best sources for fiction around. I remember reading Ray Bradbury, Tennessee Williams, Jules Feiffer and, of course, Jean Shepherd (to name just a few) in those pages. I think my favorite story of Shepherd's was "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds". Classic stuff back then. They were the first to publish a very risqué essay by Mark Twain ("Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"). I still have a few from the '60s and early '70s.

Signor V.

A great story (that was partially portrayed in the movie "It Runs in the Family"). My own favorite was "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" which recounted his family's annual trek to the "country".

Shepherd had written (at least) four books which are definitely worth reading (and I'm proud to say that I own four).

He used to appear on radio at night and wonderfully tell his memories in a manner that only he could. I miss him!

Another classic. Don't know why I totally forgot about that one when I made my previous post. Read that one in Playboy, too. Now, I'm probably going to go digging in the closet later to see if those particular Playboys survived.



Same here. I was a regular listener in the early '70s. (WOR radio.) He had a way with words that could conjure up images like nobody else. I still remember one line from a story where he described a nude baseball game with his army buddies. He described how the catcher "squatted pendulously" behind home plate.

Signor V.

That sounds like him (I wish I had heard that story).

He once told a story on radio about how his father took him to Chicago to see the White Sox play the Yankees. His father, being an avid White Sox fan, hated the Yanks and let them know it at every opportunity during the game. He had a loud, booming voice and unmercifully rode Lou Gehrig, taunting him with LOUD abuse during the game. Well, (again, ONLY as Jean Shepherd could describe) he told about the foul ball that screamed off Gehrig's bat and took dead aim on his father deep in the right field upper deck seat and almost beheaded his father. Shepherd swore that Gehrig was aiming at his dad.

I don't mean to brag but there is a hole in my wall where the stock market crashed.....

My reference in that post was unclear - sorry about that.

The nude baseball game came from a Playboy short story that I couldn't remember the title of. After doing a little Internet checking I see it was probably The Unforgettable Exhibition Game of the Giants Versus the Dodgers, Tropical Bush League (May, 1971). I don't know if it was reprinted in any of Shepherd's short story collections.

Damn! Now I've gotta look for those magazines...

Signor V.

So, what was life like back in 1929?

At least this explains your "wisdom beyond your years".

Signor V.

I just ordered this: