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!
June/July’s Reminisce is our annual special edition, with more pages for expanded features and departments. We look forward each year to giving readers more space to tell their stories, usually around deeper, thought-provoking topics. Our cover feature is an ideal entry in that canon. Reader memories in “Joyful Turning Points,” page 38, remind us once again of the wonder of childhood—a time too fragile, fleeting and easily lost. More than anything, childhood is a time of intense learning, with some of the most life-changing teaching moments occurring outside the classroom. As adults, how quickly we forget that someone had to teach us to tie our shoelaces, ride a bike or use a scooter—and that someone usually was a parent or a sibling. So these stories of epiphany also are tales…
PERSONAL STORIES Readers share their memories of growing up, working, falling in love and other milestones. AUTHENTIC IMAGES Photographs and vintage advertising capture the sights and styles of a bygone era in fascinating detail. LIFE AND TIMES Explore the past through the pop culture and iconic products that brightened our world. Order The Best of Reminisce 2022 for ONLY $10, plus FREE SHIPPING: REMINISCE.COM/22JJ Keep Reminisce coming every month! Subscribe today: REMINISCE.COM/EXTRASPECIAL IN THE NEXT ISSUE • Yellowstone Memories • Dreamy Airstreams • Chuck Taylors Turn 100…
UPCOMING FEATURES: FESTIVE SMILES We’re gathering holiday images of fun around the tree or at other celebrations, including New Year’s Eve. Send us your best. Submit images by Aug. 1. HOLIDAY GADGETS Veg-O-Matic, Salad Spinner, Mr. Microphone? Tell us about the best, worst, kookiest, noisiest or coolest gadget you ever received. Submit story and images by Aug. 1. DEPARTMENTS Submissions for our many standing departments are always welcome. Below are a few favorites. Still can’t decide where your story belongs? Send it along and let us figure it out. » Growing Up: Joys of childhood and the teenage years. » Pictures from the Past: How we lived and looked back when. Is it a fantastic picture? Send it for consideration for our Back Cover. » Last Laugh: An experience that…
BIG SCREEN YEAR Several movies that later prove influential debut this year, including Cool Hand Luke, Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate (see opposite page). In the Heat of the Night goes on to win the Oscar for best picture. SUSPENDED IN TIME James Bedford, a 73-year-old psychology professor, dies of kidney cancer and becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved, with the goal of being revived later. He remains frozen at minus 196 degrees Celsius. POCKET POWER Three Texas Instruments employees create the first hand-held calculator, left. The device has an integrated chip, replacing a transistor version that weighs 55 pounds. EN VOGUE British model Lesley Hornby shows off dramatic mod makeup and high hemlines on the cover of several magazines. One of the first supermodels, she is…
By the late 1960s, Hollywood had largely abandoned its production code, which guaranteed all movies were suitable for all audiences. Films tackled adult subjects with uncomfortable or gritty themes. One such movie was The Graduate, a dark comedy that in 1967 tells a tale that would have been unthinkable a few years earlier. Benjamin Braddock, adrift in the confining sameness of suburban Los Angeles, stumbles into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, a friend of his parents, and then pursues a romance with her daughter, Elaine. In his first major role, Dustin Hoffman captures the confusion of a recent college grad, unmoored from school and family. Watching the movie when you’re young, you side with Benjamin. But viewing it again when you’re older, you feel much more for Mrs. Robinson (Anne…
■ The couple are charged with illegal cohabitation. Their marriage is illegal in Virginia because Mildred is African American and American Indian and Richard is white. ■ After sentencing them to a year in jail, the judge offers them the option of leaving Virginia instead of serving time. They leave, but fight to return. Eventually, the American Civil Liberties Union takes the case, which reaches the U.S. Supreme Court nine years later. ■ On June 12, 1967, the court rules that Virginia’s law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. ■ Loving Day, June 12, now is celebrated across the country.…
