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re: Magazines you or your parents subscribed to when you were a young'un

Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:29 am to
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
196572 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:29 am to
Texas Monthly
time
newsweek
Sport
Sport illustrated
the New Yorker,, briefly

shite tons of others my family, big readers
Posted by Hetfield
Dallas
Member since Jun 2013
9779 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:30 am to
Didn’t subscribe but bought these at the mall & convenience store:
RIP
Metal Edge
Circus
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
39646 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:32 am to
SI, Car & Drivet, Competition Press (?)
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23285 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:33 am to
For a few years in the early 90’s, one of my birthday presents each year was a subscription to Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. Later on, when I started working summers I’d treat myself to a subscription to Baseball Weekly.
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
12668 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:40 am to
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:42 am to






Posted by liquid rabbit
Boxtard BPB®© emeritus
Member since Mar 2006
64968 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:45 am to
Mad and National Lampoon. So that explains why I'm so warped.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
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59283 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:46 am to
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That this wasn't on the first page shows how far and fast TV Guide has fallen. Back when I was a kid, almost every household was subscribed because it was just about the only way people could reliably keep up with when their shows were coming on and if it was a repeat or new episode.
Posted by sidewalkside
rent free in yo head
Member since Sep 2021
4608 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:47 am to
How old are you???
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
12668 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:54 am to
Back when I was a kid, almost every household was subscribed because it was just about the only way people could reliably keep up with when their shows were coming on and if it was a repeat or new episode.
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The local newspaper had the daily listings too.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
41027 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 11:56 am to
SI and Golf Digest
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
23173 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:18 pm to
MAD magazine
Posted by Towelie
America's Wang
Member since Aug 2007
19268 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:24 pm to
I had Nintendo Power and The Sharper Image subscriptions
Posted by dakarx
Member since Sep 2018
8447 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:27 pm to
COMPUTE! Was a must have sub in the early 80s.



Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
4554 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:30 pm to
Me Boys Life
Mom Readers Digest, The Upper Room
Dad American Legion Magazine
Posted by Tr33fiddy
Hog Jaw, Arkansas (it exists)
Member since Aug 2023
1971 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:31 pm to
We had stacks of old magazines that were invaluable when the weather was too bad to be outside.

National geographic, readers digest were staples. We had every outdoor magazine imaginable. If it was a fishing magazine...we had it.

I cut out every perfume sample I could find in the ladies magazines, I had hundreds of them. My dumb self put them all behind the filter in the air handler to make the house smell good. Of course they got sucked into the heat coils and then the house smelled like perfume smoke. I was lucky my dad was away for work.
Posted by oldtrucker
Marianna, Fl
Member since Apr 2013
3502 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:32 pm to
Don't know about mom and dad, but our neighbor kept Playboy mags in his garage. The articles were mind stimulating
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
26722 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:34 pm to
We lived in Dubai when I was a kid. We didn't have much access to American pop culture other than what our family back home could send us.

I had this issue of Dynamite - which one of my older sister's friends gave to me once he was done reading it - and I looked at it constantly. Imagine being 4 years old and having Superman and Greatest American Hero on the same cover.



When I was older, and we moved back to The State, my mom had a subscription to Highlights magazine for me. Team Goofus here.
Posted by Swamp Angel
West Georgia Chicken Farm Territory
Member since Jul 2004
10191 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:36 pm to
Boys' Life was the one subscription I remember most. The last two pages were always jokes and riddles. Good hunting and fishing articles in almost every issue as well. BSA no longer even remotely resembles what it once was.

On a side note, we always had Weekly Reader show up in our classrooms in elementary school in the 1970s. It was full of neat little stories and articles, always a mystery to work out, and at least once every month or two we could order paperbacks and other kids' magazines from it.
Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11688 posts
Posted on 7/1/25 at 12:36 pm to
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Dem titties always in National Geographic


Tribal boobies. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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