Seems like the astronauts just got to the moon, and they are already leaving. The moon is quickly becoming yesterday's news; half of the front page is given to other stories.
With all my interest in local history, I somehow never knew that the designer of the lunar module was from my home town. It was interesting reading this and doing some more research online. Thomas Kelly seems to have been very well regarded in his industry and in his community.
A full page ad from an industry group with dire predictions about what might happen to their industry are usually unreliable, but they certainly ended up being right about the dangers of reliance on foreign oil.
I found this article about panhandlers very interesting. The guy washing windows on the Bowery anticipated what would became a huge trend. By the 1970s and 1980s you couldn't drive into the city without having your windows "washed".
Baseball All Star Game! Lots of great coverage here. Reggie Jackson was the big breakout star in the league, threatening Roger Maris's home run record. That photo of Reggie and Steve Carlton is a fun one.
Of course Reggie was destined to be a Yankee. The Oakland coach who greatly influenced him was Joe DiMaggio!
Interesting to read the selections of the Greatest Players Ever. The only active player to make the roster was Willie Mays.
The business section always had a page or two dedicated to advertising agencies. This ad for licensing cartoon characters caught my eye.
Finally, the TV listings, including All Star Game festivities with the freshly-retired Mickey Mantle.
That poll of greatest players was the basis for the 1972 Kellogg's All-Time Baseball Greats set. They had a card for each starter except DiMaggio for some reason, plus an extra Ruth as Greatest Player ever and cards of three extra "finalists"--Sisler, who is listed in the article, and Tris Speaker and Eddie Collins, who aren't. No manager cards.
ReplyDeleteI guess that was also the origin of DiMaggio always insisting on being identified as the "Greatest Living Player". In reality, though, no way was he better than Mays or Williams. For that matter Pie Traynor was a very questionable choice for third base--Frank Baker or Eddie Matthews would have been more deserving.
The Honest Ed ad is my favorite. Everything else, aside from the astronauts, feels too contemporary.
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