3.09.2012

fifty-seven years ago...

A while back, I was browsing some stores when I found a stack of old National Geographic magazines. I find old magazines incredibly interesting. Everything is still perfectly preserved from when they were first published. We get to see photos and read articles exactly as they were fifty or more years ago. There aren't a ton of things out there like it.

Here are some scans from the July 1955 issue of National Geographic.




I especially liked this ad for telephone booths.

Kendall

13 comments:

  1. LOVE. life was so much beautifuler back then, no?
    -jocee <3

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  2. Oh my word. These scans are so epic. Most especially the first one, with the Coke :)

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  3. Look at the simplicity of it all.

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  4. This is beautiful. I love what you girls are doing -- this magazine, the writing, the photography -- it's fantastic. This site is going to be big someday and so will all of you! ♥

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  5. this is fantastic. three cheers for telephone booths! I also have a fascination with old advertisements--in my history class last quarter, we got to look at some from the early 1900s, and it's just so cool to see how things have changed and to reminisce on how they once were.

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  6. that coke ad made me laugh. wow, to be honest, i don't know if i would've liked to be born in the fifties. maybe the eighties would have been more suitable for me.

    xoxo,
    Jessica @ Diary of a Beautiful Soul

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  7. I absolutely LOVE National Geographic! Those scans are so neat! I can only imagine what the rest of the magazine looks like. :) Nice find!

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  8. Ooh, love these! Old things fascinate me. I recently found a vintage sailor's uniform, and it totally made my week!

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  9. Oooh. I love these. End of story. =)

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