Former President Lyndon Johnson on the cover as the astronauts ready to launch. Other news include the war in Vietnam and scandal in the pharmaceutical industry.
Here's an old supermarket ad with some 1969 food prices. Bohack was a big NYC supermarket chain that went out of business in 1977. I know my mom said that was her family supermarket when she was a kid. (Incidentally, I finally have my first Bohack wallet card photos, I'll be showing them soon.)
The Mets win another big game in Wrigley, while the Yankees and Red Sox split a doubleheader (just like 2023, neither rival was very good that year). Note the Confederate Flag being waved by the bleacher bums after Ron Santo's home run. From what I've read, they would wave the flag for southerner Randy Hundley, but I guess Seattle native Ron Santo merited the flag as well. I wonder if they would wave the flag for Ernie Banks or Billy Williams. Not sure what Banks or Williams thought of the flag, but Black Canadian Ferguson Jenkins ended up becoming lifelong friends with one of the founding Bleacher Bums.
With the Red Sox in town, the Times has a feature article on young Boston star Reggie Smith.
I found myself fascinated by the classifieds in this newspaper. Most of the job ads were pretty similar to today's, but some had that old-fashioned language like needing "vivacious" or "honey-voiced" receptionists. And familiarity with modern technology was important - "needs recept to handle push button phones".
Lots of interesting items up for auction, from antique furniture to 3 million envelopes.
More items for sale, from office furniture to 1,000 gallons of pine-scented all purpose cleaner. And advertisements for those looking to add to their collections, from the Oklahoma collector interested in cowboy and Indian paintings to the person who would buy anything old! (Looked up Shanman at 1453 Coney Island Avenue - turns out
June Emery Shanman was a South African actress who disagreed with her country's politics, moved to the US and opened up a boutique selling Zulu jewelry.
Woo, a paper from my birthday (not the birth year), thanks for the images!
ReplyDeleteAnd I didn't know about the Confederate flag being waived at Wrigley, odd that all the Cubs coverage skips over that...
DeleteThe Prez, Nasa, auctions, vivacious help wanted ads, baseball, flags, and celebrities. Yep, you covered everything
ReplyDeleteWhy did newspapers back then have 7 columns
ReplyDeleteMy guess on the column widths was newspaper pages were larger width-wise and to break up the type so it was readable, they made it 7 columns. As width-size shrunk, column numbers did too.
DeleteCool walk down memory lane. I have a few saved newspapers (49er Super Bowl stuff), but never opened them up.
ReplyDeleteI turned 4 that day!
ReplyDeleteI used to really enjoy looking through the classifieds. One of the most interesting parts of the paper.
13 years and 1 day before I was born.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy looking through the old classifieds on the newspaper sites. And I really like the ads involving real estate, especially when the address is mentioned, so that I can go see if the home is still there, and if so, how much more it's worth these days.