RIP Field & Stream

At least you weren't trying to donate National Geographics. Those are the bane of librarians.

 

I left behind probably 1,000 pounds of magazines when I moved from the Midwest to the PNW. There was a shit-ton of National Geographic, Rolling Stone and Esquire, plus a bunch of SI that I carted around for years. Bunch of other mags, too. Some of them, especially RS special issues, would be worth a little bit today, but fuck carting that stuff around all over hell's half-acre.

 

I wonder if there is any value in all those old race papers I have (or media guides, too, for that matter).
I doubt it.

 

You and everyone else wants to donate those to libraries, where they will sit unused until they turn to dust.

 

When my Mom died I inherited 50 years of carefully stored Gourmet magazines. They didn't make the trip from Florida to Massachusetts, but I get why she did it. Recipes at least have a value as reference material.

 

I kept years and years of Sports Illustrateds, from the '70s into the early '90s, and my Mom pestered the hell out of me about throwing them out. My move from NYC to the border, in 1991, I complied, keeping only 20-30 for the long journey. A couple moves later, they were gone, too.

 

Shoot, I must have easily over 1,000 media guides primarily from the 1980s (NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, racing and more) into the 2010s in Xerox boxes in my basement. Heck, if I can get $2 or $3 per guide, I'd be happy. Just a matter of finding someone who's interested.

 

Maumann-
I was the kid asking the library if they had any old sports magazines they didn't want.

It was very amusing as I tried recently to describe microfiche to my nephews. I told them we also had these weird things called VCRs, and would even tape shit on them.

 

I've been in a field and unleashed a stream before.

 

The only way I got rid of a bunch of aforementioned stuff was having it blown away by Hurricane Katrina.

That includes college text books. Good riddance, I guess.

 

Reminds me of trying to explain to my daughter that back in the day, I watched whatever cartoon was on the local station at 8 AM as I got ready for school. None of this "pick whatever you want on streaming" spoiled rotten nonsense. Of course, back then I actually went to school all day, unlike now in pandemic times.