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Post by rgs318 on Nov 27, 2022 11:48:32 GMT -5
As we are downsizing, my wife located a complete set of issues of The Purple (our bi-annual literary magazine with prose, poetry, photography and some drawings). If anyone out there would like the 10 issues (November 1963 to May 1967) I will be glad to send them to a new home. Just let me know.
Rob Stevenson, 1967
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Post by newfieguy74 on Nov 28, 2022 9:04:07 GMT -5
Is there any chance HC would want these? Inquiring minds want to know whether you were a contributor.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 28, 2022 11:05:23 GMT -5
I was not a contributor - that I can remember. I have a taker already. I am going to mention your idea to him (that he might want to forward them to HC once he is done). Thanks.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 28, 2022 11:05:33 GMT -5
I was not a contributor - that I can remember. I have a taker already. I am going to mention your idea to him (that he might want to forward them to HC once he is done). Thanks.
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Post by sader1970 on Nov 28, 2022 11:19:30 GMT -5
Would be shocked if the HC archives don't already have copies of all The Purple issues. Somewhere I probably have a couple buried that a good friend wrote some poems but after most of those years (maybe 66&67). The most prolific writer, from my memory, was a different classmate, Ed Osowski who seemed to have at least contribution in every issue.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 28, 2022 11:50:56 GMT -5
Agreed. And, for those not students, the subscription back then was $3 per year.  |
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Post by longsuffering on Nov 28, 2022 15:43:12 GMT -5
$3 could buy sixty full sized (bigger than today) milky way, snickers or Nestlé Crunch bars for a nickel each. So three bucks wasn't chump change.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Nov 28, 2022 16:11:15 GMT -5
$3 could buy sixty full sized (bigger than today) milky way, snickers or Nestlé Crunch bars for a nickel each. So three bucks wasn't chump change. Or 60 packs of baseball cards giving you a real chance at landing a few of your favorite players |
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Post by hchoops on Nov 28, 2022 16:46:08 GMT -5
And also some future possible investments, if the cards had not been thrown away, after severe damage through flipping and pitching.
Were those two competitions Brooklyn only ?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Nov 28, 2022 17:03:52 GMT -5
We participated in card flipping in Portland, Maine
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Post by sader1970 on Nov 28, 2022 17:14:24 GMT -5
No. Long Island too as a result of the Brooklyn diaspora.
The big question, however, did those cards find their way to the spokes of your bike for the neat motorcycle sound they produced?
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Post by hchoops on Nov 28, 2022 17:26:20 GMT -5
Not mine
Others did it.
I saved most of mine, for a while anyway, especially the Dodgers.
Recently came across the large card team photo of the Dodgers ‘55 champions. In good condition.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 28, 2022 17:27:25 GMT -5
Same competitions in NJ (and another way was to slide them off a wall and trying to top a certain card on the ground. (Lost a Mickey Mantle triple crown card that way,  Some kids also put them in bicycle wheels, hitting the spokes to make a sound as they rode. It did beat the hell out of each card.  I saved my 1957 complete Topps for many years (in a salt water taffy box) and recently sold it for $1200. I also learned that sets after 1980 were not worth much at all (at this time). |
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