1939 NEWSSTAND PIC TIME MACHINE JOURNEY INTO THE PAST 18 18

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On 5/8/2024 at 1:00 PM, Darwination said:

Great stuff.  And a Thin Man sighting - excellent!  Powell and loy weren't together, but everybody thought they were because they were so darn good together on screen.  Great movies!  

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In Borough Park, Brooklyn:

[Darwination]

I have no idea where this photo came from or where the newsstand is.  Pretty sure it will date real fast, though.

[Darwination]

Plastic Man 18 1949-07

Wild Western 08 1949-07

My Love Life 6 1949-06

and a couple mags for good measure, Motion Picture 1949-05, Jane Russell, hubba hubba

Secrets 1949-05

 

Edited May 15 by Darwination

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Real Life #48, Feb 1949

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Captain Easy #16, May 1949

[Darwination]

On 5/14/2024 at 11:22 PM, pmpknface said:

Real Life #48, Feb 1949

These Real Life covers crack me up how they mix up some scene with all sorts of literary and historical figures.  Rattlesnake Dick! Emile Zola! Baldy of the Snow!

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All Love #27, 1949 - LB Cole art too!

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On 5/15/2024 at 12:26 AM, Darwination said:

These Real Life covers crack me up how they mix up some scene with all sorts of literary and historical figures.  Rattlesnake Dick! Emile Zola! Baldy of the Snow!

Rattlesnake Dick is the coolest name ever!

[jpepx78]

On 5/14/2024 at 9:04 PM, Darwination said:

I have no idea where this photo came from or where the newsstand is.  Pretty sure it will date real fast, though.

Five Points News Center Jacksonville Florida

That is a photo of the Five Points News Center in Jacksonville Florida. As in life, things change and almost nothing lasts forever. Here is a nostalgic look at the newsstand and a few more photos. Information was gathered from the Florida Times-Union and the Whiteway Corner website.

At the end of July 2010, a 64-year Jacksonville institution came to a quiet end when Five Points News Center closed. The building in the heart of Five Points at 1060 Park St would reopen as a barbecue restaurant called the Der-B-Q, Roy Reeves Jr said. Reeves said he closed the news stand because it wasn’t making enough money to justify keeping it open. “The internet killed it, plus the recession,” he said. Roy Jr, who also owns the Derby House restaurant next door, bought the newsstand from his father Roy Sr in 1990 to keep the newsstand in the family. Roy Jr worked at the newsstand in the 50s and 60s. “Everybody read back then. Even the kids read newspapers. I still want to hold a newspaper in my hands. But now, people just want to sit in the Internet” he said.

A 1989 article said the Five Points News Center, with its cinderblock walls and metal rolltop door, had been a landmark in Riverside. A dusty Royal Crown Cola clock hung above the paperback books. Owner Roy Reeves Sr opened the newsstand with his brother William in 1947 with a $50 inventory of magazines. In 1989, the newsstand stocked more than 1000 different magazines and several newspapers from major Florida cities and Atlanta and many paperback books. Although the shop is more than twice its original size, it is constantly crowded back to back with customers and merchandise. At one time Roy Sr operated the newsstand alone but now he employs 4 people to help him. “I still haul my own deliveries and stock the merchandise myself every Thursday” he said. According to James White of Duval News Management, Roy has the highest gross sales per square foot of any business in the area. The shop is busiest during lunch and reading habits have changed quite a bit over the years according to Roy Sr. He said people have turned to television and aren’t reading the newspapers as intensely as they used to. He said the first paperbacks and line of pocket books sold for 25 cents. In 1989 the average cost of a paperback was $5.

 

photos:
top: In this photo is Roy Reeves Sr (left) & William Reeves in front of their newsstand in Jacksonville Florida in June 1949
middle:  sidewalk book, magazine & comic racks Oct 1955
bottom:  street view of racks 1955

Edited May 19 by jpepx78

[Hepcat]

On 5/19/2024 at 1:58 AM, jpepx78 said:

Five Points News Center Jacksonville Florida

That is a photo of the Five Points News Center in Jacksonville Florida. As in life, things change and almost nothing lasts forever. Here is a nostalgic look at the newsstand and a few more photos.

Great info!

[Darwination]

On 5/19/2024 at 12:58 AM, jpepx78 said:

 

 

 

 

Killer post jpep.  I don't think I'd ever have guessed this was Jacksonville.  Date might be a tad off on the middle photo, hard to tell.

Confidential January 1956

Night and Day December 1955

See January 1956

Sports Illustrated November 21, 1955

[LadyDeath]

Henry’s Coffee Shop on the corner of Richards and West Pender in Vancouver in the summer of 1944.

[Robot Man]

[Point Five]

On 5/27/2024 at 10:25 AM, Robot Man said:

I love pics like this. They give you a lot of context for the rise of comics in the 30s/40s… and remind you that comics were a triumph of “format” (cheap, easily printed and distributed, disposable) as well as content.

 

Edited May 27 by Point Five

[Darwination]

This is just like winding up the key in the back of that robot of yours, Bob   Setting the ten minute timer here

Start with the DD May 1940

classics (I know that's a sensitive word around here lol) get the big pics (these others grabbed quickly from homie Phil Stephensen-Payne's incredible index)

Ten minutes is up, but I can't stop now! So close!

Classic?  Not exactly, but I know it's one you sicko WM collectors really like   Pretty sure there's a much more striking copy on the Shudders via Detective35

H.W. Scott did a long starting run on The Avenger, some iconic covers.

Argh, so close.  I'm stumped on the DFW

A, tight well run little rack there, almost everything exactly May 1940.  Pines, Munsey, Street and Smith, Popular, Ace, Ziff-Davis.  I have the feeling I could learn something about the distributors and their tendencies by seeing which mags are excluded where and the orderliness/timeliness of the newsstands but have never dug into it too much.

I like to ID the pulps on comic photos or poor neglected magazines but this was fun to run down as pure pulp.

and a Life

Ooh, and hiding this one which is on my huntlist for scanning/history reasons, involved in a key court case regarding obscenity.  Maybe they were hiding it back there (and you do see some of the more salacious ones tend to get tucked behind).  If you see this issue for sale, let me know!

 

Edited May 27 by Darwination

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Any info on the location of these?  Is it the same shop?  Almost looks like the Kramer looking haircut proprietor in both pics.