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My previous dentist had a sense of humor and stocked the waiting room with absurdly old magazines. Stuff from like the 60 and whatnot. Still perfectly cromulen

by Doxin 4y ago

My previous dentist had a sense of humor and stocked the waiting room with absurdly old magazines. Stuff from like the 60 and whatnot. Still perfectly cromulent material to read whilst waiting, but also playing into the trope of waiting rooms having outdated magazines.

doodlebugging 4y ago
That is pretty awesome. Like stepping into a time machine, especially if one of them was TIME. This reminds me of a really stressful period in college during a semester that was almost entirely upper-level geoscience, physics, and math courses. For one of the geoscience courses I needed to write a paper and so I found myself in the university library looking for source materials. It had been a long time since I had been in a library. The journals that I needed were filed with all the other periodicals and as I wandered the aisles I discovered old magazines from the 60's and 70's available for reading. As a youth I had spent a great deal of time reading and my parents subscribed to various magazines that were popular like TIME, Life, Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens, National Geographic and it was a great way for a kid to learn about events in the world far from their home, like the Vietnam War protests, Watergate, the growth of the environmental movement. I found myself pausing in my studies as I searched the shelves for old familiar issues that I had thought were forever lost. I searched the time period and pulled issues looking for specific magazine covers to make sure that I hadn't imagined any of it. It was a real trip back in time and the rest of my time at college I used the library as a stress busting tool. I would think up old books I had read and then go check the card catalog to see whether they were on the shelves and if so I would check them out and revisit those old familiar stories. Thanks for this reminder.

by Doxin 4y ago

doodlebugging 4y ago

That is pretty awesome. Like stepping into a time machine, especially if one of them was TIME. This reminds me of a really stressful period in college during a semester that was almost entirely upper-level geoscience, physics, and math courses. For one of the geoscience courses I needed to write a paper and so I found myself in the university library looking for source materials. It had been a long time since I had been in a library. The journals that I needed were filed with all the other periodicals and as I wandered the aisles I discovered old magazines from the 60's and 70's available for reading. As a youth I had spent a great deal of time reading and my parents subscribed to various magazines that were popular like TIME, Life, Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens, National Geographic and it was a great way for a kid to learn about events in the world far from their home, like the Vietnam War protests, Watergate, the growth of the environmental movement. I found myself pausing in my studies as I searched the shelves for old familiar issues that I had thought were forever lost. I searched the time period and pulled issues looking for specific magazine covers to make sure that I hadn't imagined any of it. It was a real trip back in time and the rest of my time at college I used the library as a stress busting tool. I would think up old books I had read and then go check the card catalog to see whether they were on the shelves and if so I would check them out and revisit those old familiar stories. Thanks for this reminder.