It feels weird reading this thread, because we still have daily news printed and delivered to our house every single day. I only ever liked the comics and horoscope section of the newspapers, and the kids newspaper that came every Saturday.
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Anybody remember newspapers?
- Thread starter ShawnFuzz
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Ginny Potter
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I get them like once a week still
Of course i seen them at work
Of course i seen them at work
ShawnFuzz
In Colorado, under my cats rule.
You are right of course, and I believe I mentioned that in my original post they are still around. I think though, the true impact was how important newspapers were, because that was actually how people got their news. There was news on TV, but even then only for a short time, like maybe 30-60 minutes in the evening. Nothing was 24 hours a day or instant like now.
Its odd to really think that you had to wake up the next day, pick up a rolled up paper off of your front doorstep and read what happened the previous day. And even then it was up to the editor to decide what was important enough to publish on a limited amount of paper. Imagine how much information was missed or received too late too publish until another 24 hours?
Plus being a newspaper delivery person was a respectable job for teenagers who got up before everyone else to make their daily deliveries before school. When it came time to renew the subscription, the delivery person would come to ask if we wanted to continue, and my parents would also tip because he did such a great job.
I wanted to do that job at one point for spending money, but my parents made the right call. I cant wake up early to save my life
lasagne_of_death
intangible.
I see them around and a good amount of old/er people still buy them, but personally I'm not interested in newspapers or magazines. The only thing I use magazines for is cutting out pictures to make collages for art, but even then I don't go out of my way to buy them. I don't see any problem with them continuing though, since they are the way that a fair amount of people still receive the news, and what if you got transported to a future time and because there's no newspapers you have no idea when you are? 
Tude
RIP Tilly 09/20/2023-01/23/2025
On Sundays, my mom used to send me down to the newspaper machine on the corner. Cost four quarters when I was a kid. She wanted the ads they would stuff in the newspaper that day. Imagine that-willingly paying for ads! We were poor and she never bought anything so not sure why she bothered. This was only for like a year or two thankfully.
We used to take everyone's old newspapers and use them to start fires during winter. That was pretty much the most use we've ever got out of newspapers. I would hide the comicstrips and read them before they had the chance to burn them.
A few years ago I did come across an antique shop when we were on vacation. Actually, the entire town strip was mostly antiques stores with all kinds of cool things. I found this one milkcrate shoved under a table and spent half an hour digging through them carefully since they were so old. I found one for WW2, one for war bonds during WW1, a newspaper during the Civil War in pretty bad shape, one about Bonnie and Clyde being gunned down ect. I think I only paid a few dollars since they probably didn't know what they had.
I've never had newspapers delivered, but I remember in elementary school my friend's dad was a paper delivery person. One of my previous jobs had newspapers in the lunch area, and I enjoyed reading those (always the comics first though).
Captain Jigglypuff
Leader of the Jigglypuff Army
I do. I remember reading them occasionally during study hall when I was in school. I remember the school newspaper even more though because they really screwed me over and basically stole $10 from me and I’m not going to forgive them for what they did to me and only me. The editors were doing this drive to get everyone to pay for a subscription to the school newspaper with the promise of a donut party for whatever classroom had the most subscribers. Of course the student council homeroom naturally won because they were the largest homeroom in the school with over 200 students in it. I didn’t even want the stupid paper but my homeroom classmates kept pressuring me and wouldn’t leave me alone until I caved in to shut them up and leave me alone. And you know what I got in return? My paper always being the only one missing every single time they had a new issue out while the rest of my homeroom always got theirs and there were 30 of us in that room. Out of 30 kids, you’re telling me that you keep forgetting the same exact person every single issue?! Only TWICE did I ever get the paper I paid for without having angrily go to classroom where they set up base to complain that they forget me again! The subscription payment was also non refundable. Every two weeks it was the same thing and I don’t believe that for six months that they would just forget about me by mistake. After the sixth time, I knew someone was doing this to me on purpose but I don’t know who. So the next two years, I refused to pay for the newspaper and when my class I tried to bully me into getting a subscription, I just screamed at them to go away and I outright refused to support something that purposely left me out and stole money from me. So you can see why I hated the school newspaper entirely.
i myself have never read the newspaper but i do remember my grandma getting it delivered. i can’t remember if it was daily or weekly but the funny thing is that i never ever saw her read any. this went on for years until she finally canceled her subscription lol
Yes. Its not like they've totally vanished. I still see them in their stands in supermarkets so I'm sure the elderly pick up some and read. They're like cinemas. They're still around but they'll have their niche audience.
@ShawnFuzz and anyone else who might be interested. I promised I would take pictures of the old newspaper I had. I forgot the date until I retrieved it from my storage, but it's 1949. And what's really cool is it's during Christmas time so you get to see what stores were advertising to get for your loved ones. Old and young!
So apparently people use newspaper for insulation in their old homes and maybe still do? There were a handful of pages in pretty bad shape around the edges, but the middle was mostly still intact and legible. So it was really fun to see the illustrations and a part of life back then.
I added some of these so we can all see the difference in prices.
It's the hopalong boots from It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!
So apparently people use newspaper for insulation in their old homes and maybe still do? There were a handful of pages in pretty bad shape around the edges, but the middle was mostly still intact and legible. So it was really fun to see the illustrations and a part of life back then.
I added some of these so we can all see the difference in prices.
It's the hopalong boots from It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!
ShawnFuzz
In Colorado, under my cats rule.
All of this is amazing!!! Thank you for sharing! It's like the catalog pages to order gear in Red Dead 2!
I used to go the library as a kid and look through old newspapers for stuff like this. I also spent way too much time in front of the microfiche machine looking at sports box scores from forever ago to see what famous athletes did on randomly picked days. Also all of the random headlines. No matter what, there was also something interesting from the past to read!
