Remember when the Sunday Paper was 3" thick?

[TPC]

Our neighbor Karen
We're at Starbucks and the Times is a Zig Zag thickness short of 3/8".

Back when I was dating, girls that read the morning paper most always were the ones with the best character.

First date with Alice we stopped off at Pioneertown.
Alice read then rolled up the paper and whacked all the flies on our table. What a scene. The place went silent,,, then applause.

Reading the morning paper, or what's left of it is still a ritual with her.

 

[Sbarry]

I like that the paper is just a backdrop for the phone in her hands. Lol

I used to love reading the funnies. Wonder if there's an app for that?

 

[rampster]

The phone in her hand tells the whole story.

 

[Taboma]

When I was a young kid growing up in the 50's, Sunday morning was my favorite --- dad and I would sit at the table, where we'd read and discuss all the "Boats for sale" ads. Each Sunday was a repeat of the previous, he'd read the ads, find a good one or two, then more serious discussion would follow. In short order I'd be jacked to the max and off the charts giddy as he'd feign serious interest and my imagination ran wild in anticipation of adding yet another boat to the stable. I mean nobody can have to many boats right ?

Occasionally we'd go check one out, most of the time by the time we'd finished breakfast we were knee deep back in reality and I was forced to confront and concede that once again I'd fallen for the ole "Sunday Morning, let's buy this boat" game. It was special and it never got old.

There's nothing special about the Sunday morning paper anymore, just a stack of advertising flyers with a bit of old news wrapped around it.
I only take a paper a couple of days week, just to break up the boredom on the shitter.

I doubt they even have boat for sale ads anymore, it would seem at least to me, that "Special" has become a rare commodity in today's world.

 

[TPC]

I like that the paper is just a backdrop for the phone in her hands. Lol

I used to love reading the funnies. Wonder if there's an app for that?

I never cared for Prince Valiant, but was always amazed at the artwork:

The pit's at Indy named after the comic strip:

 

[pronstar]

Sunday papers often come out on Saturdays...just ads and general-interest articles these days.

I used to love them [emoji106]
But they've been replaced by about a million other more-interesting things IMHO

 

[TPC]

Back in the 70's the National Lampoon did a Sunday paper parody of Dacrons biggest circulation Sunday paper.
Had to be the most amazing work of comedy publishing ever attempted.

They faked it all.
The TV section, the magazines, comics, news, sports, classifieds everything perfectly.
I ordered a copy and it was hilarious.

The date on it was about a month off when I got it and when the date arrived I left it on my moms doorstep with the stack of others Sunday morning.
My mom lived in the OC and subscribed to the New York Times, The Boston Herald, the Houston Chronicle, the OC register and several others on Sunday morning. You could do that back then in the OC.
Mom and her husband read it and took awhile before they woke up and realized what it was.
Outrageous and ridiculous story's.

They did a fake yellow pages too and and I pulled that cheap stunt again.
Took a long while before they figured that out.

 

[Bobby V]

I still read the paper every day. Sunday has gotten a little slimmer. But nothing like Monday.

 

[boatnam2]

I remember them as a teen when i use to haul a bag full of them Sunday morning, worst day of the week for a paperboy.

 

[nowski]

Remember the days when kids would sell the daily newspaper on busy streets???

 

[TPC]

I remember them as a teen when i use to haul a bag full of them Sunday morning, worst day of the week for a paperboy.

You must have appreciated that monthly pay of $32 and 12 cents.

 

[Dan Lorenze]

I remember getting the paper on Sunday I would go to the Calender section to see what bands were playing in town.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

I like that the paper is just a backdrop for the phone in her hands. Lol

I used to love reading the funnies. Wonder if there's an app for that?

www.gocomics.com

You can find their app in either one of the OS app stores.

 

[pronstar]

Remember the days when kids would sell the daily newspaper on busy streets???

Geez I thought I was old [emoji4]

 

[TPC]

I remember getting the paper on Sunday I would go to the Calender section to see what bands were playing in town.

That's how I planned my dates and 'Vegas specials.
$49 LV Hilton weekend included room, buffets and a show.

 

[Chili Palmer]

Remember the days when kids would sell the daily newspaper on busy streets???

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Al Capone goes to Alcatraz for tax evasion!

Damn, you're really old.

 

[TPC]

Last year wifie and I were in So Carolina and a kid walked through the restaurant selling the newspaper.
$1.50 per.

 

[500bbc]

Apparently it's not a good business model to grossly insult over 50% of your customers.

 

[Bobby V]

Apparently it's not a good business model to grossly insult over 50% of your customers.

How does the sports section insult 50% of their customers.

 

[Willie B]

Remember the days when kids would sell the daily newspaper on busy streets???

... I was one of those kids who sold newspapers on the street corner...Vanowen and Vineland in North Hollywood ..,Los Angeles Hereld and the LA Dailey News...I think they were $.10 can't really remember... I think I netted about eight dollars a week???...

 

[AzGeo]

Apparently it's not a good business model to grossly insult over 50% of your customers.

The News-Herald has also gotten 'thinner and thinner' over this past 4 months .

However it's 'POV on every news piece', is becoming tiring .

A few of their 'own pieces' on local Havasu/Mohave news, but most everything else is from 'Associated Press' .

The Associated Press writers don't like the GOP and pretty much hate Trump, and this is how I know why ;

TRUMP SAID ANOTHER STUPID THING TODAY, WHILE HE GAVE ANOTHER OF HIS QUESTIONABLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS .
So once again Trump 'states' that "I will fix this government overreach problem (more lies), and then he signs the EO . The independent government accounting office says ,










Page 12 "Trumps move will save taxpayers $10 billion in 2 years,
while creating 15
thousand new jobs" .

In the Havasu News Herald paper, 1 in 10 articles are neutral or positive on Trump .

Makes me question everything else this paper has to offer ............

 

[500bbc]

How does the sports section insult 50% of their customers.

The sports section is not the entire newspaper you dithering idiot.

Although I'm certain the only portion of any newspaper you've ever perused.

 

[500bbc]

... I was one of those kids who sold newspapers on the street corner...Vanowen and Vineland in North Hollywood ..,Los Angeles Hereld and the LA Dailey News...I think they were $.10 can't really remember... I think I netted about eight dollars a week???...

Yeah but a pack of smokes was $.15, you were in high cotton.

 

[Bobby V]

The sports section is not the entire newspaper you dithering idiot.

Although I'm certain the only portion of any newspaper you've ever perused.

The front page and opinion page isn't the entire newspaper you dithering idiot.

 

[TBI]

Remember the days when kids would sell the daily newspaper on busy streets???

Did you get your shoes shined while you read the paper?

 

[TrojanDan]

My current job I have I found in the Sunday paper over 18 years ago. I use to guage how the construction industry was doing based on the job openings.

 

[buck35]

I liked the sunday crossword puzzles.

 

[TBI]

My dad used to say "I read the obituaries every morning and if I don't see my name, I get dressed and go to work"

 

[500bbc]

The front page and opinion page isn't the entire newspaper you dithering idiot.

Hah!

I only read the obituaries to see if I'm dead!

 

[rivermobster]

Gawd I miss these guys...

 

[TBI]

Hah!

I only read the obituaries to see if I'm dead!

 

[boatnam2]

You must have appreciated that monthly pay of $32 and 12 cents.

After a soda and chips everday while delivering and few non paying people, i usally lost 50 bucks a month lol.

 

[Ziggy]

I hated having to deliver all those 3 pound sunday papers as a kid.[emoji438]
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Its been around 8 yrs that we canceled newspaper delivery at home. Got tired of paying $30-40 a month to keep the recycling guy busy[emoji41]

 

[Bobby V]

I hated having to deliver all those 3 pound sunday papers as a kid.[emoji438]
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Its been around 8 yrs that we canceled newspaper delivery at home. Got tired of paying $30-40 a month to keep the recycling guy busy[emoji41]

I only pay $10 a month for 7 days delivery.

Ziggy is my favorite comic strip.

 

[rivermobster]

I hated having to deliver all those 3 pound sunday papers as a kid.[emoji438]
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Its been around 8 yrs that we canceled newspaper delivery at home. Got tired of paying $30-40 a month to keep the recycling guy busy[emoji41]

X2 on the news paper route.

 

[milkmoney]

X2 on the news paper route.

City kids [emoji202]

 

[rivermobster]

City kids [emoji202]

That's what we did while you were out tipping cows!

 

[milkmoney]

That's what we did while you were out tipping cows!

I never tipped cows , although did hang a dead sheep from the rival high schools flag pole[emoji202]

 

[rivermobster]

I never tipped cows , although did hang a dead sheep from the rival high schools flag pole[emoji202]

That counts!

 

[TBI]

I did hang a dead sheep from the rival high schools flag pole

Is that what the kids are calling it now?

 

[rivermobster]

Is that what the kids are calling it now?

That's what they called it back in the 60's.

:tbi

 

[milkmoney]

That's what they called it back in the 60's.

:tbi

High school in the 80's old man [emoji6] [emoji202]

 

[rivermobster]

High school in the 80's old man [emoji6] [emoji202]

Surrrrre. [emoji106]

 

[Ziggy]

Is that what the kids are calling it now?

What else would it be out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere?[emoji15]

 

[bowtiejunkie]

You almost forget that the classified ads were go to place for cars, jobs, etc. Plus the business section listed every stock ticker from NYSE, American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ. News articles were well researched with actual sources called out in name and many per article. All the ads were great on Sunday. I had a paper route for a few years until I was Fired as Victor Valley Daily Press was going to car delivery. I still have the letter sent to me. 1993 was the year I believe. Lol. One job I really enjoyed.

 

[Cray Paper]

I remember them as a teen when i use to haul a bag full of them Sunday morning, worst day of the week for a paperboy.

I started reading this thread and the first thing that came to mind was my paper route. Hated Sunday mornings. 5:00am, throw the bags over the handle bars on my BMX bike, put a set on my shoulders, then tied the cart to the seat post on my bike with a bunjie cord. 120 papers, each had to be bagged (Kirkland WA route..it rained alot back then), fully loaded probably delivered 250+ pounds of paper each Sunday. My route had big ass hills and I refused to make a second trip back to the guys house where the papers were dropped off. I planned my route to hit the apartments first just so I could lighten the load as quickly as possible. People that were shitty tippers or I had to make several visits to collect on the previous month would get that 2 - 3 pound wad of paper hitting their door from as far away as I could chuck it. I was 11 YO and worked my ass off on that paper route for 2 years. I cleared 250.00 - 350.00 a month. Not bad back in the early 80's. Paid cash for my brand new CR80 and had a bad ass BMX bike.

I miss reading the Sunday paper, but in all honesty, "journalists" quit providing unbiased news reporting decades ago and and even at a young age I could see the slant authors were putting on "news" articles and that eliminated my interest in news print. Same with televised news.

 

[Kailuaboy89]

I started reading this thread and the first thing that came to mind was my paper route. Hated Sunday mornings. 5:00am, throw the bags over the handle bars on my BMX bike, put a set on my shoulders, then tied the cart to the seat post on my bike with a bunjie cord. 120 papers, each had to be bagged (Kirkland WA route..it rained alot back then), fully loaded probably delivered 250+ pounds of paper each Sunday. My route had big ass hills and I refused to make a second trip back to the guys house where the papers were dropped off. I planned my route to hit the apartments first just so I could lighten the load as quickly as possible. People that were shitty tippers or I had to make several visits to collect on the previous month would get that 2 - 3 pound wad of paper hitting their door from as far away as I could chuck it. I was 11 YO and worked my ass off on that paper route for 2 years. I cleared 250.00 - 350.00 a month. Not bad back in the early 80's. Paid cash for my brand new CR80 and had a bad ass BMX bike.

I miss reading the Sunday paper, but in all honesty, "journalists" quit providing unbiased news reporting decades ago and and even at a young age I could see the slant authors were putting on "news" articles and that eliminated my interest in news print. Same with televised news.

I was 10 when I started my first job, it was a paper route, I split close to 400 customers with my best friend, and we did it on BMX bikes as well. until we discovered mopeds, and then it was actually fun. but yea....those Sunday papers, with 2 stacks of "inserts" we had to wake up at 3 in the morning just to get ahead of them...:rolleyes
we got lucky and the papers all got dropped right in my garage. good times they were, 1980-83', and funny you bought your CR80, I paid for my first "race bike" A used 1982 Yamaha YZ 125!

 

[rivermobster]

The BEST part back then was the Concert section...

After reading the comics, the first thing I would do is see what concerts were coming to town, and then hitting the ticket agency's on Monday morning for tickets. IN the days before the interweb, that's how things got done, you had to actually get off your ass and DO SOMETHING!!! LOL

The Real Estate section was always a good read as well for me as a teenager. I couldn't wait to buy my first house. :thumbsup

 

[Bobby V]

The BEST part back then was the Concert section...

After reading the comics, the first thing I would do is see what concerts were coming to town, and then hitting the ticket agency's on Monday morning for tickets. IN the days before the interweb, that's how things got done, you had to actually get off your ass and DO SOMETHING!!! LOL

The Real Estate section was always a good read as well for me as a teenager. I couldn't wait to buy my first house. :thumbsup

The OC Register still has the Concert / Music section in their Sunday edition.

 

[rivermobster]

The OC Register still has the Concert / Music section in their Sunday edition.

Nice. And I heard Irvine Meadows is going to stick around for awhile after all??

What's the latest on that??