Newsday July 16, 1969

There were a few copies of Newsday in that big lot of old newspapers, mostly moon-landing related, that I picked up last summer. Newsday is only major Long Island newspaper (there were others at the time).

You can get a man to the moon, but can you get him to the city and back?

Here's a place where Newsday clearly beats the New York Times - comics! I've gone through lots of old newspapers on microfilm, and would always stop and look at the comics. It's amazing how much more modern and intelligent Peanuts felt than most other comics at the time. It's easy to forget now how groundbreaking and influential it was. That Mad Magazine strip is a weird one. I'm guessing it was short-lived.

A brand new beverage from Stokely Van Camp.

I had a blast looking at all of the ads for old department stores. There were at least a dozen long-gone retailers that have had a wallet-card post at some point. Here is just one, for E.J. Korvette.

First National City Bank wouldn't officially change it's name to Citibank until 1976, but was already using that name at this point.

Interesting article about an upcoming experimental new public television children's show. They used real children as focus groups to determine which performers and techniques resonated best with children, especially when it came to them remembering concepts. Like Gatorade, I think Sesame Street is going to be successful.

Of course, if you're reading this blog, you're waiting for the baseball content! Lots of coverage of a rare home run by the Mets' Al Weis, pride of Franklin Square, Long Island.

A nice photo spread on another baseball star from Long Island, Carl Yastrzemski.

A fun article about Yankee reliever Steve Hamilton's Folly Floater, which he debuted this season. I just posted a Hamilton card yesterday. I'd like to say that was planned but in fact I just realized that now.

Finally, a nice look at the current batting leaders in both leagues.