Step back in time and Life...May 20, 1946 ..Life Magazine..the entire issue..

[Stuart G]

I hit the link to see pictures of a train wreck in Naperville Illinois.. and that is where the link will take you..but..after a while, the entire magazine loaded..a step back in time..71 years.. look at those ads, and the stories in that issue. What a journey..let it load and you see it all......Added attraction...look to page 57, and you will see an article about workers adding a ....TV Tower to the top of the Empire State Building..TV was in its infancy then...very few people had TVs, especially after WWII...cost of yearly subscription...4.50.

https://books.google.com/books?id=u0kEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31-IA6&lpg=PA31-IA6&dq=naperville+exposition+flyer&source=bl&ots=kTYxS2h_g-&sig=S4TREs4YqDMeDNbSbtdJZ82kA1g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OuU7VaGNK8XHsQSg6YGwBQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=naperville%20exposition%20flyer&f=false

[Aristus]

1. Cool!

I love looking at old LIFE magazines, primarily for the ads. Some of them are a hoot!

[Stuart G]

2. The ads are great, but that one story about the adding of a TV antenee to the Empire State Building.

is really something...1946..who had a TV?...page 57. ....kind of an interesting year for me..1946..I was new that year,..kinda like born.....oh my......
...I guess it was a good year... ....................................Now I got to add something....an observation about what you are looking at this very moment. This information was available 20 years ago..say in 1997..or earlier. Old copies of magazines were always saved at libraries. Some would have the originals, in a special section, but ...some copies of old newspapers and magazines were on "microfilm". You had to put the film on a viewer...or ask for help to do so, then scroll to the correct section of the film to view the issue of the magazine or newspaper that you desired. You looked through a special screen that was part of the machine that contained the film..I did that often at the university that I attended and when I was teaching in high school. (history)..I would show the students how to look up news that had happened many years earlier.....................NOW THINK OF THIS..................................

RIGHT NOW.....I sitting at a computer, in my home...looking at a screen, and the internet, finds the issue, and sends pictures of that issue back to my computer in my computer room, and I see the entire issue.
.... I did not have to get up off the chair, and the computer and the internet did it all. 25 years ago, I couldn't even imagine that I would have one of these things...yet alone know how to operate it, and access the same information that I would have to go to a major library to get....now.....think about that..and guess what......

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[Binkie The Clown]

3. I once dated a lady who had a garage full of back issues of LIFE that she inherited.

It was really fascinating looking through those old magazines. I swear she had the issue that covered the launch of the original Noah's ark. Well, maybe not, but she had a lot of really ancient ones.

[LeftInTX]

4. South Texas had it's drought of record in the 1950s

I'm a Master Gardener and researched the drought. I found pictures and articles in Life. It showed the Rio Grande basically bone dry.

[pressbox69]

5. Thanks. Beyond cool.

Now I need to see Ginger Rogers in Heartbeat.

[rurallib]

6. what a stroll through the past

there were so many things I was making mental notes to comment on, but quickly forgot when the next page rolled up.

[Generic Brad]

7. So the media accused liberals of being leaderless back then too!

Leaderless during the Roosevelt era! That screed could have been written today by conservative critics. Some things never change.

[zanana1]

8. Thank you

I really enjoyed that.

[cwydro]

9. Fascinating.

I read the story about the sorority that admitted a black woman, and then faced suspension from its national office.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. The Exposition Flyer wreck. NT