Looking Back for a Laugh
In some of the things from my parents' house, I found an April 1946 issue of Leatherneck Magazine: Magazine of the Marines. I presume it is something that belonged to my Dad. Although, he served in the Air Force, not the Marines, and he served in the early fifties, not in the forties. It was interesting to look through and see what kinds of things were written about and advertised and to notice how different a men's magazine from sixty-four years ago is compared to men's magazines of today. On the upper right-hand corner of the cover of the magazine, one of the first things I noticed was the price of the magazine---fifteen cents!! I can't think of much of anything you can buy for fifteen cents these days. I believe most magazines that you would buy at a news stand or drug store these days would probably cost somewhere between two and five dollars depending on what you are buying. There were many articles about Marine life and interests, of course, because ...