62 Die in Ice Show Tragedy...and other stories from 52 years ago today
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The full edition of the Chicago Tribune from November 1st, 1963. (68 pages) Learn more about the terrible Ice Show tragedy that eventually claimed 74 lives.
In other front page news, Harvard sex orgies are exposed by a dean (girls stayed in boys rooms in violation of dorm rules, booze may have been a factor, this six months after Timothy Leary was fired) .
Ngo Dinh Diem loses support in Vet Nam. Negroes Sit In in New Orleans. A baby learns to walk at two weeks. Worry continues about the 'Reds' and the space race.
Lots of ads for the new electronics, transistor radios, reel to reel tape recorders and color TVs.
The sixties.
Ngo Dinh Diem loses support in Vet Nam. Negroes Sit In in New Orleans. A baby learns to walk at two weeks. Worry continues about the 'Reds' and the space race.
Lots of ads for the new electronics, transistor radios, reel to reel tape recorders and color TVs.
The sixties.
(From Pg. 4) Iwan Ries & Co is (was? gosh I hope not) still at 133 S Wabash when I bought my last pack of cigarettes, 6-8 years ago. CD Peacock is still at State and Monroe, but Jerrems Scottish Masterpiece Tweeds are long gone from 11 N Wabash.
posted by crush-onastick at 4:34 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by crush-onastick at 4:34 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Those comic strips make me really happy about how far that medium has come in the past 50 years. Yeesh.
posted by cwill at 4:41 PM on November 2, 2015
posted by cwill at 4:41 PM on November 2, 2015
I love getting lost in the Trib's archive. According to a TWA ad from the 40's, only TWA flew Constellations non-stop to Los Angeles in only 7-1/6 hours!
posted by hwyengr at 4:48 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by hwyengr at 4:48 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
RETRAINING OF OLDSTERS URGED would be excellent news today, and a refreshing shift from millennial-blaming.
posted by Countess Elena at 4:54 PM on November 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Countess Elena at 4:54 PM on November 2, 2015 [6 favorites]
What are we going to do about hostile, unemployed teen-agers? Over a million out-of-school youngsters under 20 have literally nothing to do - except be senselessly destructive!
Oh, Reader's Digest hasn't changed, has it?
posted by GhostintheMachine at 5:03 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
Oh, Reader's Digest hasn't changed, has it?
posted by GhostintheMachine at 5:03 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
A 68-page broadsheet paper on a Friday. Those days are completely over, in any city in the United States.
posted by beagle at 5:07 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by beagle at 5:07 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
Creosote: "Is the Tribune any better these days? "
worse, worse, worse. Like, inexpressibly bad.
Some of these inside pages are very sloppily pasted up.
Also, wow, the Indiana State Fair does not have a good record on venues catastrophically failing. And some of those pictures are so gory they never would have run in the 80s to the present because the Trib has such a strong stance now against showing blood (in color) or dead bodies (B&W or color).
The ads are great -- LOOK at all those furs! And PATIO Diet Cola! If you would like to be sad, look at the prices on the houses in the real estate listings.
Radcliffe president Dr. Mary Bunting is great: there's "no cause for unusual concern about the activities of Radcliffe girls." Dr. Bunting knows about -- and quietly favors -- the sex orgies. (I went to college in the late 90s at a school with only single-sex dorms that still had "parietals," the rules that said the boys and girls had to be out of each others' rooms -- in our case, by 10 p.m. on weeknights, midnight on Sundays, until 10 a.m. the next morning. Some Catholic colleges that still had parietals had amnesty rules in case of fire drills -- at Villanova, boys who evacuated the girls' dorms during a drill were not sanctioned by student life -- but at MY school you still had to decide whether you'd rather die in the fire or get in trouble with student life.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:13 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
worse, worse, worse. Like, inexpressibly bad.
Some of these inside pages are very sloppily pasted up.
Also, wow, the Indiana State Fair does not have a good record on venues catastrophically failing. And some of those pictures are so gory they never would have run in the 80s to the present because the Trib has such a strong stance now against showing blood (in color) or dead bodies (B&W or color).
The ads are great -- LOOK at all those furs! And PATIO Diet Cola! If you would like to be sad, look at the prices on the houses in the real estate listings.
Radcliffe president Dr. Mary Bunting is great: there's "no cause for unusual concern about the activities of Radcliffe girls." Dr. Bunting knows about -- and quietly favors -- the sex orgies. (I went to college in the late 90s at a school with only single-sex dorms that still had "parietals," the rules that said the boys and girls had to be out of each others' rooms -- in our case, by 10 p.m. on weeknights, midnight on Sundays, until 10 a.m. the next morning. Some Catholic colleges that still had parietals had amnesty rules in case of fire drills -- at Villanova, boys who evacuated the girls' dorms during a drill were not sanctioned by student life -- but at MY school you still had to decide whether you'd rather die in the fire or get in trouble with student life.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:13 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
My father was an Indianapolis firefighter at the time of that explosion at the Coliseum. Nasty scene. The blast was eventually attributed to a propane leak in a concession stand.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:26 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 5:26 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
wow, this really brings back memories - it was a whole different world back then and a whole different newspaper to report it - (although i had to make do with the battle creek enquirer and news and sometimes the sunday detroit news)
funny how they put the comics all over the place instead of on one or two pages like most newspapers of that time - and say what you will about the corniness, they were one hell of a lot better drawn - interesting how many of the ads were drawn, too
eggs at 39c a dozen - that wasn't that great a price as i remember
posted by pyramid termite at 5:32 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
funny how they put the comics all over the place instead of on one or two pages like most newspapers of that time - and say what you will about the corniness, they were one hell of a lot better drawn - interesting how many of the ads were drawn, too
eggs at 39c a dozen - that wasn't that great a price as i remember
posted by pyramid termite at 5:32 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
A 68-page broadsheet paper on a Friday. Those days are completely over, in any city in the United States.
On the date this went to press, there were four major daily newspapers in Chicago. The Trib, the Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, one of the great African-American newspapers. The Daily News was the morning paper, the Sun-Times aimed to roll presses at 1100 and be on the streets midday, and the Trib and Defender would hit the streets around 4PM.
Those days are completely gone, and I think we are much poorer for it.
posted by eriko at 5:40 PM on November 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
On the date this went to press, there were four major daily newspapers in Chicago. The Trib, the Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, one of the great African-American newspapers. The Daily News was the morning paper, the Sun-Times aimed to roll presses at 1100 and be on the streets midday, and the Trib and Defender would hit the streets around 4PM.
Those days are completely gone, and I think we are much poorer for it.
posted by eriko at 5:40 PM on November 2, 2015 [5 favorites]
Personals:
Sophi - All is forgiven, please come home. Ted.
posted by T.D. Strange at 5:42 PM on November 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
Sophi - All is forgiven, please come home. Ted.
posted by T.D. Strange at 5:42 PM on November 2, 2015 [4 favorites]
This is great, now let me text search to see if anything was going on around the places I know about. OR: Let me know if you see any news about Rogers Park.
posted by bleep at 5:42 PM on November 2, 2015
posted by bleep at 5:42 PM on November 2, 2015
If you zoom out, it just looks like ----------- DRAWING OF A HUMAN -----------ANOTHER DRAWING OF A HUMAN ------------- ANOTHER DRAWING OF A HUMAN ------ A PHOTO OF A HUMAN
It gives me the sense that humans like to see drawings of humans.
posted by bleep at 5:44 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
It gives me the sense that humans like to see drawings of humans.
posted by bleep at 5:44 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
T.D. Strange, I noticed that! My vague notion from mystery novels is that those columns were largely used as a way for nefarious types to signal each other about the success of their plans.
posted by Countess Elena at 5:46 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Countess Elena at 5:46 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh, that womens' help wanted section makes me so glad I wouldn't be born for another 16 years.
posted by Windigo at 5:57 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Windigo at 5:57 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
I thought that, but it could also have been legit, no one had cell phones. Or maybe it was a bad situation and she left for good reason. It was a lot easier then to pack up and leave and wake up someone one else in a new town ala Don Draper than today, and if she didn't want Ted to find her again, well, he might not.
posted by T.D. Strange at 5:58 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by T.D. Strange at 5:58 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Huh. A jewelry salesman was checking his suitcase at the Northwest counter at O'Hare (11 pounds over the 44 pound weight limit) and two men jumped him and stole the bag. When the salesman and the ticket agent ran after them, one of the men pulled out a gun. That's something you don't hear about very often.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:00 PM on November 2, 2015
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:00 PM on November 2, 2015
Got caught up reading the ad's and the classified for jobs and apartments.
posted by robbyrobs at 6:01 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by robbyrobs at 6:01 PM on November 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Anybody who's interested in the typesetting, columns, etc, take a gander at this short film about the last day of hot metal typesetting at the NYT. It's a really nice look at the process, how they figure out how each story fits into the layout, etc.
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:04 PM on November 2, 2015
posted by LobsterMitten at 6:04 PM on November 2, 2015
Wow. That was quite a day. And I'm grateful to know about this newspaper archive. Access to individual articles from the past is something I'm used to, but a whole day's paper is a lot more fun. Thanks!
And it's a useful antidote for the creeping sense that new media has robbed us of something: old media was just as awful. It's pointless puff pieces, click bait (thumb bait? eye bait?), and tedious advertising all the way down, then as now.
The main difference is that I now have the ability to access something more interesting than the local paper, without having to plan my evening around the shortwave broadcast schedule. (Well, that and the fact that there's now nobody who isn't part of a specific interest group paying attention to what happens at city council meetings. But I'm not convinced mainstream papers were ever on my side anyway.)
posted by eotvos at 6:13 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
And it's a useful antidote for the creeping sense that new media has robbed us of something: old media was just as awful. It's pointless puff pieces, click bait (thumb bait? eye bait?), and tedious advertising all the way down, then as now.
The main difference is that I now have the ability to access something more interesting than the local paper, without having to plan my evening around the shortwave broadcast schedule. (Well, that and the fact that there's now nobody who isn't part of a specific interest group paying attention to what happens at city council meetings. But I'm not convinced mainstream papers were ever on my side anyway.)
posted by eotvos at 6:13 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
eriko: "the Chicago Defender, one of the great African-American newspapers. "
You can't mention the Defender without mentioning that it reached a circulation of 100,000 (as a weekly) partly by distribution via Pullman Porters. George Pullman hired former slaves, both because he could get them to work for cheaper wages and because he had a strong racist conception of blacks serving whites and wanted to do that on his train cars. The Pullman porters lived in the company town adjacent to (now within) Chicago and read the Defender, which advocated for the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and particularly Chicago; Pullman porters, many of them moving up from the South, smuggled the paper south across the Mason-Dixon line and secretly distributed it within African-American communities in the South (and across the US) -- often more rapidly than other, better-resourced national newspapers because it got to go on the Pullman cars. The African-American community in Chicago grew and networked via the Defender and, with the vocal support of the Defender, organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, the first black union in the United States, which managed to win official recognition and force Pullman to award them better pay, better conditions, and became one of the most instrumental organizations in the nascent racial Civil Rights movement.
Which is to say, George Pullman: Your own petard, you are hoist upon it.
The Defender is still publishing.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:27 PM on November 2, 2015 [32 favorites]
You can't mention the Defender without mentioning that it reached a circulation of 100,000 (as a weekly) partly by distribution via Pullman Porters. George Pullman hired former slaves, both because he could get them to work for cheaper wages and because he had a strong racist conception of blacks serving whites and wanted to do that on his train cars. The Pullman porters lived in the company town adjacent to (now within) Chicago and read the Defender, which advocated for the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and particularly Chicago; Pullman porters, many of them moving up from the South, smuggled the paper south across the Mason-Dixon line and secretly distributed it within African-American communities in the South (and across the US) -- often more rapidly than other, better-resourced national newspapers because it got to go on the Pullman cars. The African-American community in Chicago grew and networked via the Defender and, with the vocal support of the Defender, organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, the first black union in the United States, which managed to win official recognition and force Pullman to award them better pay, better conditions, and became one of the most instrumental organizations in the nascent racial Civil Rights movement.
Which is to say, George Pullman: Your own petard, you are hoist upon it.
The Defender is still publishing.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:27 PM on November 2, 2015 [32 favorites]
A colorful and crunchy carrot, grape, and marshmallow salad is suggested as the accompaniment for the roast turkey which appears on the menu for Sunday's dinner. The salad is subtly seasoned with lemon juice, honey, and sour cream.Dear god.
posted by treepour at 6:43 PM on November 2, 2015 [10 favorites]
A colorful and crunchy carrot, grape, and marshmallow salad is suggested as the accompaniment for the roast turkey which appears on the menu for Sunday's dinner. The salad is subtly seasoned with lemon juice, honey, and sour cream.
Dear god.
Well, it is the midwest. Though why they forgot to include Miracle Whip will always be a mystery.
A few years back for a project I had to go through a ton of old newspapers. I hadn't realized how routine airplane hijackings were for some years (though usually with no more harm than the plane diverting to Cuba or wherever). And it was really weird seeing major historical events, like the coup in Chile or a major escalation in Vietnam, happen day by day, with the news moving from a tiny mention deep inside to big front page headlines.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:54 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
Dear god.
Well, it is the midwest. Though why they forgot to include Miracle Whip will always be a mystery.
A few years back for a project I had to go through a ton of old newspapers. I hadn't realized how routine airplane hijackings were for some years (though usually with no more harm than the plane diverting to Cuba or wherever). And it was really weird seeing major historical events, like the coup in Chile or a major escalation in Vietnam, happen day by day, with the news moving from a tiny mention deep inside to big front page headlines.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:54 PM on November 2, 2015 [2 favorites]
Two Burton/Taylor pictures out at the same time? Man, 1963 was their year. And I've never even heard of this Doris Day/James Garner picture. I wonder if it was any good? They sure advertised it enough.
$249.00 for a color TV? That's insane. That's almost $2,000.00 today! My first HD set didn't even cost that much.
posted by droplet at 7:02 PM on November 2, 2015
$249.00 for a color TV? That's insane. That's almost $2,000.00 today! My first HD set didn't even cost that much.
posted by droplet at 7:02 PM on November 2, 2015
When was the Agony column withdrawn?
Sometimes I wish threads could stay open, then someone might Pop in and say:
" I bought the Bel-Air on page 42"
I loved doing this when working at library, pick a date reel and hopper in that dime for some 1930s decoupage.
Oh god.
posted by clavdivs at 7:13 PM on November 2, 2015
Sometimes I wish threads could stay open, then someone might Pop in and say:
" I bought the Bel-Air on page 42"
I loved doing this when working at library, pick a date reel and hopper in that dime for some 1930s decoupage.
Oh god.
posted by clavdivs at 7:13 PM on November 2, 2015
It gives me the sense that humans like to see drawings of humans.
I used to work in the ad department of a regional retailer. Photography was/is a whole lot more expensive than the sort of line art common to those sorts of retail ads. Add to that the generally crap-tastic reproduction of photos in newspapers of the era, and you can understand the proliferation of line art in the ads.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:21 PM on November 2, 2015
I used to work in the ad department of a regional retailer. Photography was/is a whole lot more expensive than the sort of line art common to those sorts of retail ads. Add to that the generally crap-tastic reproduction of photos in newspapers of the era, and you can understand the proliferation of line art in the ads.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:21 PM on November 2, 2015
You can't mention the Defender without mentioning that it reached a circulation of 100,000 (as a weekly) partly by distribution via Pullman Porters.
When I was typing that, I started to type the short version history of Bronzeville, one of the two great African-American neighborhood, the place where Gospel was born, etc.
And while I am far from being afraid to digress off topic on MeFi, this digression started to get epic. Gospel, the Dan Ryan, the Supreme Court case that both free African Americans from being forced to live in Bronzville and basically led to Bronzeville's fall, why Grand Boulevard became South Parkway became Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, and I realized I had at least two front page posts, and even that wouldn't do justice to the area. And, as a white guy, maybe I'm not the one who should write that post.
So, instead, I just praised with faint damns, and did what many would not -- acknowledge the Defender as one of the basic daily papers. Because it was! But it was a "black" paper so it didn't count.
Didn't count to them. Counts to me, and to anybody who cares about the history of journalism in the city. Counted to Mike Royko, who counted it as a singular honor that he was ask to write some columns for the paper.
As to Pullman? When died, they buried him under 12 feet of steel and concrete. He was that convinced they'd dig him up to desecrate his corpse.
posted by eriko at 7:30 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
When I was typing that, I started to type the short version history of Bronzeville, one of the two great African-American neighborhood, the place where Gospel was born, etc.
And while I am far from being afraid to digress off topic on MeFi, this digression started to get epic. Gospel, the Dan Ryan, the Supreme Court case that both free African Americans from being forced to live in Bronzville and basically led to Bronzeville's fall, why Grand Boulevard became South Parkway became Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, and I realized I had at least two front page posts, and even that wouldn't do justice to the area. And, as a white guy, maybe I'm not the one who should write that post.
So, instead, I just praised with faint damns, and did what many would not -- acknowledge the Defender as one of the basic daily papers. Because it was! But it was a "black" paper so it didn't count.
Didn't count to them. Counts to me, and to anybody who cares about the history of journalism in the city. Counted to Mike Royko, who counted it as a singular honor that he was ask to write some columns for the paper.
As to Pullman? When died, they buried him under 12 feet of steel and concrete. He was that convinced they'd dig him up to desecrate his corpse.
posted by eriko at 7:30 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
What's the deal with all the "I am only responsible for my own debts after $date" ads?
posted by quaking fajita at 7:37 PM on November 2, 2015
posted by quaking fajita at 7:37 PM on November 2, 2015
Did anyone catch the "Oriental receptionist" ad on page 30, followed by the Nisei sec'y (Japanese-American) wanted? No language requirement apparently, just gotta look the part. Hmm.
posted by Sweet Dee Kat at 8:04 PM on November 2, 2015
posted by Sweet Dee Kat at 8:04 PM on November 2, 2015
What's the deal with all the "I am only responsible for my own debts after $date" ads?
Usually divorces, to prevent a wayward or separated spouse from running up debts using the other partner's name. At least that's what I've always understood.
posted by pjern at 8:51 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
Usually divorces, to prevent a wayward or separated spouse from running up debts using the other partner's name. At least that's what I've always understood.
posted by pjern at 8:51 PM on November 2, 2015 [3 favorites]
You can really say that those were the golden days for print journalism. It's a shame that most of the daily newspapers had no idea how to handle the move to television news, then online content.
On the date this went to press, there were four major daily newspapers in Chicago. The Trib, the Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, one of the great African-American newspapers. The Daily News was the morning paper, the Sun-Times aimed to roll presses at 1100 and be on the streets midday, and the Trib and Defender would hit the streets around 4PM.
I think you might have gotten your timings a little mixed up. The Trib and Sun-Times were morning papers. The Daily News, along with the Chicago American, were afternoon broadsheets.
The Sun-Times and Daily News were owned by the Marshall Field family at the time. The American was owned by the Tribune Company until it failed in the late '60s.
posted by SteveInMaine at 3:39 AM on November 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
On the date this went to press, there were four major daily newspapers in Chicago. The Trib, the Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, one of the great African-American newspapers. The Daily News was the morning paper, the Sun-Times aimed to roll presses at 1100 and be on the streets midday, and the Trib and Defender would hit the streets around 4PM.
I think you might have gotten your timings a little mixed up. The Trib and Sun-Times were morning papers. The Daily News, along with the Chicago American, were afternoon broadsheets.
The Sun-Times and Daily News were owned by the Marshall Field family at the time. The American was owned by the Tribune Company until it failed in the late '60s.
posted by SteveInMaine at 3:39 AM on November 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Buried under concrete huh. Shades of Jimmy Savile.
Back to the paper, page 13: 'Wearing native Nigerian dress, Stefan Leader of Merrick, N. Y., and Elsbeth Anderson of Seattle, bring the twist to Lagos during their farewell party.' tho Lagos had the twist already I'd have thunk.
posted by glasseyes at 3:43 AM on November 3, 2015
Back to the paper, page 13: 'Wearing native Nigerian dress, Stefan Leader of Merrick, N. Y., and Elsbeth Anderson of Seattle, bring the twist to Lagos during their farewell party.' tho Lagos had the twist already I'd have thunk.
posted by glasseyes at 3:43 AM on November 3, 2015
Ngo Dinh Diem loses support in Vet Nam.
The day immediately after this newspaper was published, November 2nd 1963, Diem was assassinated in the course of a coup. When Ho Chi Minh heard this he supposedly said, "I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid."
posted by XMLicious at 7:49 AM on November 3, 2015
In the Herb Lyon gossip column on page 20: "Loud Mouth fighter Cassius Clay..."
posted by sixpack at 7:52 AM on November 3, 2015
posted by sixpack at 7:52 AM on November 3, 2015
"I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid."
Foreigners! Always underestimating our national capacity for stupidity!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:24 AM on November 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
Foreigners! Always underestimating our national capacity for stupidity!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:24 AM on November 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
Mr. BIG
Mr. TALL triple threat
I can't buy ski gear from people who can't math.
posted by tracicle at 8:28 AM on November 3, 2015
Mr. TALL triple threat
I can't buy ski gear from people who can't math.
posted by tracicle at 8:28 AM on November 3, 2015
Cancer victim sues Reynolds for $2,536,000.00.
My sister sent this to me yesterday morning and I could not get enough of what a weird time capsule it was, just before the assassinations of Kennedy and Diem, the idea of sex in dorms being called an 'orgy' ...it's all so last century. In a few weeks it would be a different world. I was four and my sister would have been turning nine, so a newspaper reader by that time. She had never heard of the Indianapolis disaster and neither had I. That was such a great loss of life and it does not even have its own Wikipedia page.
We are life long Chicagoans and our family took three newspapers each day. My grandparents had the Tribune delivered, my dad picked up the Sun-Times on his way in to work (and brought it back home at the end of the day, the Times had Royko and Ann Landers back then, we all read them daily) and my mom had The Daily News delivered in the afternoon.
My mom has been reading this issue on her ipad, looking forward to her take on it. There's that story of the woman having her handyman kill her husband that I'm sure she would have been following. Later court news mentioned the widow/murderess wearing a white bow in her hair at trial.
posted by readery at 8:50 AM on November 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
My sister sent this to me yesterday morning and I could not get enough of what a weird time capsule it was, just before the assassinations of Kennedy and Diem, the idea of sex in dorms being called an 'orgy' ...it's all so last century. In a few weeks it would be a different world. I was four and my sister would have been turning nine, so a newspaper reader by that time. She had never heard of the Indianapolis disaster and neither had I. That was such a great loss of life and it does not even have its own Wikipedia page.
We are life long Chicagoans and our family took three newspapers each day. My grandparents had the Tribune delivered, my dad picked up the Sun-Times on his way in to work (and brought it back home at the end of the day, the Times had Royko and Ann Landers back then, we all read them daily) and my mom had The Daily News delivered in the afternoon.
My mom has been reading this issue on her ipad, looking forward to her take on it. There's that story of the woman having her handyman kill her husband that I'm sure she would have been following. Later court news mentioned the widow/murderess wearing a white bow in her hair at trial.
posted by readery at 8:50 AM on November 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
I grew up in Indianapolis. Born 8 years after the Coliseum explosion, but it was still fresh enough in the city's collective memory that I heard stories of it.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:51 PM on November 3, 2015
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:51 PM on November 3, 2015
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- Comics that weren't funny 50 years ago still aren't funny. (Has anyone, of any generation, ever had any use for "Andy Capp"?)
- On the other hand, I miss "Rick O'Shay". Soppy piety and all.
- "Retraining of Oldsters Urged". That's the headline, and it gets worse.
- Is the Tribune any better these days? I'm so furious at what the parent company has done to my old hometown paper (the LA Times) that I've never had the heart to check.
posted by Creosote at 4:17 PM on November 2, 2015