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Paper366 of 2867Birmingham evening mail, 21st June 1988.Snow in June Birmingham post, 3rd June 1975.
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    Posted 6 years ago

    artfoot
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    It was Autumn, 1949, and television was yet to absorb the imagination of the "trash culture" segment of the herd. Fortunately, there were plenty of pulp magazines filled with tantalizingly illustrated sensational stories of often questionable veracity. The genre appeared in the mid-1920s with True Crimes Magazine and eventually grew to include over 200 titles.

    These three magazines date from September and October of 1949 and are filled with all the pictures of moderate gore and the sleazy advertising the consuming public had come to expect.

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    1. Newfld Newfld, 6 years ago
      These vintage crime magazines are great, I am a big reader of both true crime and murder mystery books, so this post gets a super love from me :)
    2. flashlarue flashlarue, 6 years ago
      Me step-grandmorher's murder made it into on of these magazines in the 1960's. After grandpa died she was living with another man and he chopped up with an axe and through her body down a well in Missouri.

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