Posted on 09/03/2017 12:00:05 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Every Sunday the huuuge Pittsburgh Press was on the front porch and after breakfast my mother would have her cigarette and coffee and read the paper. The Press was basically conservative.
My mother also insisted in getting the sunday New York Times, which came around 2 PM at the local candy store. I guess she liked seeing the real estate section and my dad would say "I'm spending good money on a paper whose motto should be "All the news, that's fit to tint"".
We also had a new german shepherd puppy and my mother had planted newspapers all around the house to house train him. I was reading the comics on the floor and the dog came over and urinated over Nancy and Sluggo.
A newspaper? I think people use those to line birdcages and to put on the floor near the door when it’s snowing. :D
We used to get the Washington Post on Sundays. I always looked forward to the TV Week which had all of the TV listings.
I recall the relatively big Sunday edition of The Washington Times. Seems it was late 1980s or early 1990s The best paper I’ve read.
“what is a newspaper?+
Have you not heard of a Fish Wrapper?
We got the Sunday Free Press too along with the Adrian Daily Telegram and the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
Your solution sounds a lot like mine, as long as the paper was refolded like new the old man didn’t mind, the Sunday funnies spread out on the living room floor with a mug of cocoa were a high light of my grade schooler’s week.
Postage rates were low too before the postal strike of 1970 so we got lots of magazines and book club offers at low, low intro rates.
As soon as the subscription rate went up on one it was switch to another, Life followed Look, Time became Newsweek, Sports Afield, Field & Stream, Red Book, McCall’s, etc. in an endless rotation and every couple of weeks the build up would go over to the local nursing home Mom worked at or the customer waiting area of the pharmacy Dad worked at, next to the tube tester, lol.
Many “transformations” I have witnessed are both sad and maddening .
I get three papers delivered every day, including Sunday. The local Daily Herald, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times.
Well, they all have diferent puzzles! But honestly, I’m just a diehard. I’m not the only one, because I know the “paper guy” would not do it for me alone, but I suppose our days are numbered, although there are a few others on the street.
110 across : Sex appeal ... or a hint to the six starred clues ...
15 letters. I filled it right in, but only because I had several of the starred clues.
The irony is that the Sunday NYT magazine pages are not receptive to my favored Pilot Razor Point pens, so I make a copy of the Sunday pages to do them. Weekdays are cool.
... and yes, I was a paperboy! ... for the Newark Evening News ... ceased publication 1972 ... wow.
(Notice the price for that Sunday paper was a quarter in the 1960's, and the daily paper in the 1940's was three cents.)
It’s something I pick up to line the bottom of my bird cages.
I have not bought a newspaper for around 20 years. I bought my first computer in 1995 and did not need a physical newspaper to tell me what was going on anymore.
Thanks for the images. They were marvelous.
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