Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness

[Train]

apparently i was born right after owning your own phone became legal. there is a phone shoot out. awesome.

I totally forgot about that.

You leased/rented them from the phone company kinda like how Cable boxes work today.

 

[KeithTalent]

I liked the one from '46 about teaching your wife how to drive.

KT

 

[RagingBITCH]

Sweet

 

[Ken g6]

That link only lets you find magazines by searching. But I just found one that lets you browse by cover!

http://books.google.com/books/serial/ISSN:01617370?rview=1

 

[Rubycon]

PS is nice but I prefer PM - Popular Mechanics. Particularly from the '80s.

 

[SandEagle]

mfl

 

[dighn]

mfl

you can subscribe to threads without posting now you know. thread tools -> subscribe

this is win indeed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That reminds me, my grandpa has original spider man, superman etc comics in a box somewhere, still in their plastic. I bet those are worth a lot now.

 

[shortylickens]

Wow, there were a LOT more cigarette ads 30 years ago. Fascinating stuff. Good link!

I havent read a general magazine in about 30 years so I wouldnt know. But I guess its a safe assumption there are none or almost none these days. amirite?

 

[waggy]

I totally forgot about that.

You leased/rented them from the phone company kinda like how Cable boxes work today.

yeah i remember when you could buy a phone legally!

 

[Fritzo]

PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements.

http://www.popsci.com/archives

THANK YOU SO MUCH- I'm stuck at work tonight and have no other job than to make sure no lights go red.

This will pass the time a lot faster