My inlaws collected the magazines. Just recently, I loaded up 4 full size garbage cans with them and took them to the dump and threw them in the recycling.
That's unfortunate, you should have tried to give them to a local school or even a used book store.
A couple of years ago I purchased a Jan. 26, 1953 copy of Life magazine that had a picture of my dad in it when he was an officer in the MPs stationed in Berlin. I even have a picture of dad and the photographer who was doing an essay on the smuggling of equipment from Germany to Czechoslovakia via the railroad trains. His name was David Douglas Duncan