Spare me your "Phosph this and Phosph that..."

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Is your constitution shattered? Do you poop out at parties? Then try...

Yanno, if it's good enough for the frickin' Empress of Russia, it's good enough for me.

Question: Where do people get old magazines anymore? I don't see them in thrift shops or garage sales like I once did. Maybe Estate Sales are a better bet? This ad came from a book about World War One.

Observation for Mods: If you want a physical prize for the barf food contest, have you considered sending the winner several boxes of Lime Jello? Then they could create their own wonderful dishes at home. And it's gotta be ~Lime~ - I'm just sayin'.

Comments

[misstia]

i get old magazines 'treasure hunting' (spring clean up in cities where peoples toss perfectly good items), library sales, ebay, estate sales, thrift stores, antique stores---if priced good....

i like the lime jello idea!!!

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

First prize: 3 packets of Lime Jello.

Second prize: 6 packets of Lime Jello.

Bwah-ha!

[misstia]

truly evil!! :) but a better prize option than myself or my co-mod making the 'winner' and trying it! :)

[3cthelion.livejournal.com]

no!!! =)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Don't forget, they're illegal - so just watch yourself! ;p

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

you just have to luck out at goodwill or junk sales

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just gotta keep looking. My local Value Village appears to stock only Women's Weekly magazines - about a million of those.

[autochrome.livejournal.com]

I always see a bunch at antiques stores/malls. Or you could get them on eBay, I suppose, if you have specific magazines in mind.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Huh - I've never thought of going into an antique store - probably pricey but you never know. Thanks.

[tink-queen.livejournal.com]

Mr. B.C. Hucks (the well known Flying Man)!!!!

I wanna start introducing my friends in epithets. Like, Mr. Philip Griesser (the well known cheese trapecist)! or Ms. Fran Ruit-Tagle (the well known whipped cream dessert woman)!, you know, something like that. Gotta think of some ideas, lol

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Can reducing people to types ever be a bad idea? If you can't fit into a nutshell, you aren't worth knowing - complex people are revolutionaries - well known fact!

You must be brave and follow through on this noble endeavour - King Edward (well known bon vivant and ruler) would wish it so... ;p

[tink-queen.livejournal.com]

lol, comment made of win.

[hippie-chick.livejournal.com]

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Cool - I'm glad someone picked up my I Love Lucy reference.

I can never decide if I like this commercial or the Honeymooners commercial better ("Ohhh, it can cut an apple!")

[misstia]

honeymooners!!!

[gotham-syren.livejournal.com]

I agree, I don't see old mags nearly as often anymore. :( These days I've had more luck at junk shops and flea markets, if you can find a stand that sells books. When I see them at antique shops, they are WAY expensive now.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try an antiquarian bookseller in town - but he's always a bit overpriced. Still, I'd like to get at least one mag to scan. The problem is some people think they are SO valuable because they are old (not necessarily true) and others think they are so useless - they won't even put them out in a garage sale cause "no one could possibly buy this." No happy medium.

The motherload would be to find an oldtimer having a garage sale who's been collecting these things for decades.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Hey, you've got a name and you've got an address - what more do you want? ;p

You could also write to the Empress of Russia...

[misstia]

don't think this stuff worked out too well for the Empress of Russia and the ad mentions the 'late' king of greece....hmmmm....was that due to this stuff??

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

There's a store in my city that has an amazing amount of "junk" in the basement, sort of like a jumble sale, including very, very old copies of "Life" magazine. I just remembered this. I hope they still have them, because I want to go look for them.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

The articles in Life would be extremely interesting as well as the ad copy. I remember coming across a few and they'd do a "day in the life" of someone - such a fabulous idea. They'd be done as a sort of photo-essay. I remember them doing one about a young businesswoman circa 1950s. She was treated as such an anomaly.

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Luckily for me, in Vancouver, they have a used book store that also has many collectable brochures, maps, and yes, magazines. Nearly all what I post now is from my own collection. From this store I pulled out a Sewing magazine from 1932, A men's health and living magazine from 1914, A Photoplay magazine from 1932, and my current magazine which I'm scanning, a The American Home magazine from 1953. Great stuff.

My flickr account is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38987873@N00/

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Those are very interesting shots - I've never heard of The American Home before.

I definitely have to go back and see earlier entries in this community.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I buy mine at local antique malls and occasionally off of Ebay - in fact, I should start selling the giant wad of Ladies Home Journals from the mid 1940s that I have, because I don't want all of them.

Old Life magazines seem to be pretty common around here - they're the only ones I seem to trip over everywhere I look.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I have several collected versions of Girl's Own Annual (later changed to Woman's Own Annual) from the 1920s and 1930s from Britain. Sadly, in the compliations, there are no ads included - which is too bad. I should check on Ebay to see what they're going for these days.

[koneko-wish.livejournal.com]

What's actually IN this product?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

I found out! :D

http://www.jstor.org/pss/25285004

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, not to worry, it just contains a ~little~ sulfuric acid. Whew.

And, of course, a little quinine is very important because malaria is positively rampant in Britain - little known fact!

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

The habit probably started when the British were in India.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I could understand if the tonic was marketed to Anglo-Indians but to someone who's never left Sussex? Seems strange.

[koneko-wish.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! *reads*





... Well, alcohol is a step above heroin as a "tonic", I suppose. Quinine and Sulfuric Acid don't actually have any real 'soothing' effects, do they?

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

You're right - Laudanum certainly would be the additive of choice in this case but it was doubtless illegal or something by this time.

I do know that you could buy laudanum in drugstores in Britain, even as late as the 1930s - but you had to inform the druggist what it was for - so I'm not entirely sure what the legal status was. People did know it was addictive by this point.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

There's a little restaurant I frequent where the owner provides an assortment of fascinating reading material for his customers. The last time I was there he gave me a 50-year-old copy of Readers Digest to read. I so badly wanted to take it home and scan all the ads, but I had to give it back when I left. :)

The articles were fascinating, too, all about the "Soviet threat" and those nasty, nasty Communists.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that about old copies of Reader's Digest I've come across (not so old as yours.) I remember reading a bizarre article (from the 60s or early 70s) about how microbiotics was killing college students - don't let your child fall into that "oriental" trap!!!

They seemed to be into hyperbolic scare tactics. Hopefully the kids didn't become commies before succumbing to a diet of brown rice and seaweed...

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I read an article in Readers Digest that said it should be legal to deny equal treatment to people on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc., because people just aren't ready to accept that women are equal to men, non-Christians are equal to Christians, and gay people are equal to straight people. So it's perfectly okay to deny someone a job because they're gay or Jewish or female. But it's not okay to discriminate on the basis of race.

And this was NOT in the 50-year-old edition, either. This was about five years ago.

My parents had a subscription to RD when I was growing up, and I read the funny animal stories and "drama in real life" and the cute little things like "Humour in uniform" "All in Day's Work" and "Life's Like That." I didn't read the political stuff because it bored me. Now my dad buys me a subscription for Christmas every year, and I still don't read the political articles, because they piss me off.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Wow - a mere five years ago? Hard to believe! My parents never bought it but I used to read it at the place where I babysat. I haven't been near a copy since.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I just had a thought - they should remame their magazine to "Reactionary Digest"!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Another Phosferine ad (http://www.historyworld.co.uk/content/phosferine.jpg) (1952)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

That crap sold for a loooooong time - wow - and really it was just some alcohol tainted with some questionable chemicals.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

isn't that what whiskey is? ;)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Actually, an even better example would be absinthe with its wormwood extract.

Yum...wormwood...

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Flying for the Daily Fail? No wonder he suffered from nerves, with all the seething hatred towards women and minorities he was carrying round with him. Poor man.

I never find old magazines any more and it sucks. I used to get them at a funny old bookshop, till it closed, and increasingly the replacement funny old bookshops don't have them any more.

I used to love True Romance magazines. The ridiculous photos! The horribly conformist stories!

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, is the Daily Mail a crappy paper? Sounds like a The Sun newspaper in Canada.

I'd only find True Romances lying around the laudromat for some reason. There always seems to be at least one article that was about how someone "made me a woman" which I don't entirely understand. How are you "made" a woman - you either are or you ain't.

Romance comic books were pretty funny - I don't think they produce them anyomre but my sister used to have a bunch. I believe they were written by middle-aged men and they were pretty reactionary. I remember one about a "Woman's Libber" carrying a protest sign who eventually realizes that serving her man was the true path to happiness.

Man, I'd love to find a pile of those in the thriftstore~

[dachsie-mom.livejournal.com]

"Where do people get old magazines anymore? I don't see them in thrift shops or garage sales like I once did. Maybe Estate Sales are a better bet? This ad came from a book about World War One."



I am an ebay addict, and I can tell you they actually sell ads on ebay. Not just old magazines, but the full page ads only . Seriously. Here's one I pulled up:


http://cgi.ebay.com/1937-Newspaper-Ad-Maybelline-Mascara-Solid-Cream-/120568692485?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c12743f05


Don't know how links will show up, so if you're interested & it doesn't load right, go to the ebay site and look for item #120568692485


There are A LOT of old/vintage ads, and some are priced pretty high. (Don't know how well they sell, but since I've been seeing them for years now, I guess it must be a fairly profitable sales category.)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Cool - thanks for the info. Who knew there was a market like that?