Does anybody remember the days of big Sunday newspapers

9/3/17

[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.

[PAR35]

The Morning News priced itself out of my life. I stuck with them through 50 cents weekday, $1.50 Sunday. I think they were up to $3.00 last time I looked.

[PIF]

"The refrigerator was called the ice box."

And ours was an ice box and the ice man delivered big blocks every other day; and the coal guy came every other week and poured coal from his truck down the chute and into the cellar coal bin.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** and Lil Abner.***

I still get a thrill remembering when the S.W.I.N.E. Hippies attacked the new mafia university enforcers’ brass knuckles with their front teeth!

[PIF]

Prince Valiant, and the Katzenjammer kids!

[crosdaddy]

I loved watching the coal truck dump its load down the chute into our basement coal room.

[lysie]

Wow! You about hit them all.

[Exit148]

The only way for kids to read the funnies -— was on the floor. Prince Valiant, Dagwood, lil Abner, Bette Boop, and on and on. Wonderful times.

[scottiemom]

Boy do I! I’m so old I remember when Houston had 2 daily newspapers and (I think) both had morning and evening editions. My Dad bought both papers on the weekends and we spent all day (after going to church) reading them. Those were the days. Thanks for the memory lane experience, Uncle Miltie!

[sparklite2]

As much as the Sunday papers, I remember Grit. That paper had more comics than any paper I knew of.

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The Comic Section for January 1, 1950, carried the following Sunday comic strips in black-and-white: Chic Young's Blondie, Young's Colonel Potterby and the Duchess, Dixie Dugan by J. P. McEvoy and J.H. Streibel, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon by Mac Raboy and Don G. Moore, Carl Anderson's Henry, Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka, Jungle Jim by Paul Norris and Moore, Fran Striker's The Lone Ranger, Mandrake the Magician by Lee Falk and Phil Davis, J. R. Williams' Out Our Way, Hal Foster's Prince Valiant and Ed Reed's three-panel The Three Bares, extracted from Reed's Off the Record gag panel feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_%28newspaper%29

[mairdie]

When we first moved to Chicago in 1952, there was still a horse cart going down our street. There was a van that delivered fresh fruit and one that delivered cakes. The downfall of my allowance. Besides the milk that had pry-up cardboard inserts to close.

[sparklite2]

Yep. Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything.

[ifinnegan]

Well. I delivered Oakland Tribune, an afternoon paper, except on weekends. It was 110 during the summer time on those weekday afternoons.

I remember Sunday papers for sure. Had to go back to the big wooden box a number of times to get more papers on Sunday.

I had a Schwinn Varsity ten-speed (which I got in 6th grade after my Sting Ray Jr.

[lysie]

Wonderful days.

[lysie]

:-)

[ifinnegan]

“Yep...Schwinn was never in the budget...had a couple of Huffys, then Murray made a pretty good beach cruiser that worked well.”

Interesting in that the Schwinn’s were more cost effective. They didn’t break.

The Sting Ray Jr I had as a kid must be 50 years old now and is still solid as a rock.

[mairdie]

Before my time but, in the very old days, the news boy only got a tip at New Years when they presented the customer with a poem. Henry Livingston, who actually wrote Night Before Christmas, used to write Carrier Addresses that had a lot in common with the Christmas poem. But hark what a clatter! the Jolly bells ringing,
The lads and the lasses so jovially singing,
Tis New-Years they shout and then haul me along
In the midst of their merry-make Juvenile throng;
But I burst from their grasp: unforgetful of duty
To first pay obeisence to wisdom and Beauty,
My conscience and int'rest unite to command it,
And you, my kind PATRONS, deserve & demand it.
On your patience to trespass no longer I dare,
So bowing, I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Jan. 1. 1819.

[Chode]

a large part of my uncles trucking business in the 50s-60s was hauling the funny papers and color sections for papers that only did newsprint

[Tammy8]

I guess everyone got the big Sunday paper, when we lived in Colorado we were no where near Denver but got the Sunday Denver Post I think it was. Later moved to Arizona but no where near Phoenix, still got the Sunday paper from Arizona Republic. I don’t live anywhere near Albuquerque but got the Journal for years on Sunday.

Newspapers really went downhill in the 80s in my opinion, that is when I gave it up. It was a ritual to me for years.

[murron]

Even though New Orleans has only two daily newspapers on Wednesday and Friday, it has the old fashioned Sunday newspaper to which you speak. Color comics, giant crossword puzzle page with other games, a society section, real estate section, sports section, and numerous other sections.

[murron]

Even though New Orleans has only two daily newspapers on Wednesday and Friday, it has the old fashioned Sunday newspaper to which you speak. Color comics, giant crossword puzzle page with other games, a society section, real estate section, sports section, and numerous other sections.