This is the first and last Long Island Press I will be showing. It was the final issue, and there were several copies in the lot I picked up last summer. This was a moderately-sized Queens/Long Island paper, a little smaller than Newsday and the NYC tabloids.
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New York Post was smelling opportunity.
Interesting article about how schoolyard rumors led to a slump in Bubble Yum sales. This sounds like a joke but it's real.
Lots of comics. There were two full pages. You can tell that a lot of elements of the paper came from syndicated sources. Fun Time and a lot of other sections made references to "see tomorrow's paper".
Baseball news! The potential Tom Seaver trades are fascinating. Seaver for Don Sutton? No, the Mets insisted on Bill Russell and LA wasn't having it. Seaver for Pete Rose? No, Rose was open to the Yankees but not the Mets. Looking back the Mets should have taken the Sutton deal when they had the chance. The Reds ended up winning the Seaver sweepstakes with a much weaker package mid-season, but the Dodgers had the last laugh, taking over from the Reds as the best team in the NL. Meanwhile Ken Holtzman continued to struggle with the Yankees.
The last issue of the Long Island Press is a pretty cool collectible. If the San Jose Mercury News ever stops printing newspapers, I'll definitely run out and grab their final issue.
ReplyDeleteCrazy that a kids' rumor sent a company into a slump.
ReplyDeleteWow - Dodgers should have really made that Sutton/Russell for Seaver trade. Oh well.
I remember that Bubble Yum rumor. It was definitely a common thing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteEven bigged up, I can't read the article talking about the last issue; so can you put me out of my misery and tell me why the paper went under?
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