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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
by 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.