Posted 6 years ago
Toyrebel
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I guess a lot of baby boomers/old coots like me are familiar with the 50's-60's "stag" male adventure mags. These testosterone laden gems offered scantily clad women in peril from Nazis, Japs, Commies, pirates etc. on the cover as well as actual scantily clad women in the interior pages
The first time I saw one of these was at the local drugstore in the early sixties. A friend of mine and I would got to the drugstore pick up a Highlights or some other kid's mag and pretend to read it. We only used them to hide that we had put one of these racy mags inside to ogle at. Great childhood memories.
This '63 issue has a great cover of "The Rebel Girls Whose Lust Lost Fort Pickens". I've read a lot Civil War books, but I wasnt aware this was the cause of the loss of the fort. An innocent southern belle is depicted defending herself from the evil Yankee invader. As can be seen her uniform is in terrible shape due to the Union blockade. She lacks buttons for her tunic, has no shoes and only the remnants of pants to shield her from the cold. The rest of her similarly clad brigade thankfully are rushing to her rescue in the background.
The cover also has blurbs for other stories; "How Politicians Steal Your Vote" and "Bowling: America's number one sin sport". Some things never change.
The ads are as great as the stories, a personalized home bar with matching stool for $7.98 and a Schmitt-Rubin Swiss Rifle for $13.98 plus a $1.00 for cleaning and shipping. You could have a party and show your neighbors your new gun on your new bar for less than 25 bucks! Good ole days.
I miss my old childhood drugstore. By the way, what was in Highlights Magazine?
Yep that is a man's magazine. I want one of those Swiss rifles.
$13.98 sounds like a deal to me. If Oswald had seen that baby, then the Mannlicher-Carcano would be virtually unknown. There's several ads for surplus military rifles in it. I remember the Sears catalogs of that era having M1 Carbines for about $85.00. Go try to find one at a gun show for less than $400 now. In 1972 when I was 17 they had Winchester 94's on sale for $71 at TG&Y. I'm short and looked young for my age. I went to the sport's dept. asked for one, the guy handed a box to me. The only question he asked me was if I needed some cartridges. I miss those days.
LMAO !!