Welcome to Magazine Monday. Yes Magazine Monday still lives, sort of. We've pretty much reached the bottom of the stack, to the sub-obscure section. Since were getting at the “not to exciting” issues, you get two for one today.
Up first, from
February 1986 if
LIFE Magazine.
LIFE was still a large format magazine in
1986, not the HUGE size it used to be, but still large at 10” by 13”. Bathing Beauties, what is this Sport Illustrated?
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The Disneyland article is short and sweet at just two pages. I tried to paste the two pages together but Photoshop kept corrupting the whole mess so I gave up.
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8,000 pounds of latex, what would the
Green Police say about that today?
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How about a few 1980’s vintage advertisements? It’s the Movie everyone’s been waiting to pay $89 for a fuzzy VHS tape. It's in my collection of VHS tapes.
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This issue is full of cigarette and alcohol ads, who ran this magazine the Carrington’s? What’s with that weak Surgeon General’s warning? How about
WARNING: “Smoke and Die”. And how about not even thinking of smoking near aviation fuel?
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The guy on the left thinks something is really funny - he knows lamp shades will be involved later.
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From
July 26, 1992 it’s everyone favorite “
Soap Opera” Magazine. I’m not missing the 90’s yet…
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The cast from the famous soap “
Santa Barbara” are
Day Tripping at Disneyland in this silly two page spread.
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There's only one advertisement in this magazine and it’s for, you guessed it, cigarettes! Eve’s style had evolved by the 1980’s, just like the women’s movement. “
Made with gently steamed tobacco” alright, I not a woman or a smoker, but that sounds disgusting – sorta like sucking on a wet ashtray…