Relax, Laugh and Remember with Reminisce Magazine. Each issue is a "time capsule" of life from the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's filled with reader-written stories, pictures from the past, embarrassing moments, ads from the Old Days and much more!
Every month, submissions to our Growing Up department are by far the most numerous. These stories touch on all aspects of childhood and span most of the 20th century from the 1920s to the 1990s. We’ve long wished to gather the best of them to tell a larger story about growing up in midcentury America. At last, we’ve done just that in “When We Were Young” (page 26), a charming collection about the lives of children through decades of social, political and economic change. Especially touching are tales of finding joy in periods of hardship. Patricia Edwards running free with her siblings in Long Beach, California, during the Great Depression (page 30) and Royal Sutton and his brother Bob making their own fun during World War II (page 33) are…
THIS MONTH’S COVER feature, “Sunday Drives” (page 38), shows how many good times are shared behind the wheel of the family vehicle. Let’s make them even better: Count the cars in this issue and we’ll pick a winner by random from the correct entries to receive our hardcover annual book The Best of Reminisce 2020. Hints: Only cars (no other vehicles) are included; and the car on the cover, also on page 38, counts only once. Enter by July 7 at reminisce.com/cars. Good luck! IN THE NEXT ISSUE • Classic roadside motels• WWII: Serving in the Pacific• Bugs Bunny at 80…
LETTERS HOME We’re interested in any correspondence between loved ones far away and those missing them at home—letters from military service members or college students, postcards from travelers, notes from people working abroad. Include copies of the letters and pictures of the writers, wherever possible. Label your story and photos “Letters.” HOLIDAY TRAVELS Tell us about that annual end-of-year trek to visit relatives or a snowbound cabin. Don’t spare the glorious and not-so-glorious details. Label your story and photos “Holiday Travel.” HEROIC PETS Growing up, did you have a Lassie, Pete the Pup or Morris the Cat who saved the day? Tell us about your four-legged hero. Label your story and photos “Pet Heroes.” KEEPSAKES Have you kept a sentimental object over the years? Tell us why you kept it…
Social justice in the U.S. advances when President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law. Students protest escalation of the Vietnam War. The U.S. surgeon general’s report links smoking to lung cancer. Ford Motor Co. unveils the Mustang muscle car at the New York World’s Fair. Jeopardy!, Bewitched and the stop-motion special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer air on network TV. We finally meet the Beatles. And these words and phrases get a spot in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. BASIC: Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code gives students a language to create simple computer programs. BLACK HOLE: A celestial object, like a dying star, middle top, with a gravitational field so strong that light cannot get out. BRADFORD PEAR: Praised as nearly “ideal” ornamentals when the USDA introduces them, these trees…
On the night of Aug. 27, 1964, Hollywood’s iconic Grauman’s Chinese Theater was packed for the premiere of what would become Walt Disney’s biggest film success to date: Mary Poppins. When the curtain fell later, the audience rose to offer a five-minute standing ovation. But not everybody stood to cheer that night. One holdout, a woman in her mid-60s, wept quietly. P.L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, disapproved of what Disney and his writers had done to her story. Travers, who once said Mary Poppins “never wastes time being nice,” envisioned her fictional nanny as one who avoids mawkishness and fanciful behavior as she seriously goes about her job—the opposite of what perky Julie Andrews brought to the screen in her first major movie role. Mary Poppins…
Last names quickly were superfluous for John, Paul, George and Ringo, who had a blockbuster year in 1964. How many other Beatles’ fab firsts do you remember? 1 These two albums issued 10 days apart by different record companies are the first Beatles’ albums with a U.S. release. 2 This No. 1 hit is the band’s first in the U.S. 3 A jaw-dropping 73 million people first see them live on this TV show. 4The Fab Four play their first American concert here. 5 The Beatles were one of only a few groups to occupy multiple top spots on Billboard’s Top 100 simultaneously. How many songs were in the top five? 6 The Beatles’ first film premieres in London on July 6. Its name? 7 The Beatles meet this folk…
