I know these videos are supposed to be relaxing but I cant stop laughing at (or re-playing) your delivery of, "un-potato the man in your life."

So pleased to see the stick return.

Those soft glossy page turning sounds with your gentle voice creates the ideal antidote to these anxiety inducing times - thanks so much!

Hubcaps were everywhere, yes. Always flying off in corners. A lot of people collected them and it was quite easy to just find them along the road or off intersections. 🤣

This was relaxing -- and so fascinating! I would love to read the article about school integration by Leon Panetta. At this time he was working on civil rights issues, but would go on to be come a congressman, and later in life, Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense. He was the speaker at my college graduation. An amazing man.

I keep rewatching these videos. Incredible production and such a relaxing voice and energy. Cant get enough

The warm brown tones in your videos always feel so relaxing ☕

@applesomething

8 ай бұрын

Yes. I noticed this, too.

Love, love, love old magazine flip-throughs ❤ Thanks so much, Melange!

@CalmASMRSenses

9 ай бұрын

Right!? So interesting see what it was back then!

You have done a great job with showing us this magazine

Wilt Chamberlain ("Wilt the Stilt" or "The Big Dipper") was one of the most skilled and best-known basketball players of all time. He's a Hall of Famer and holds several records that I think have not been broken (I would have to research that). When I was a kid, I heard his name every time I turned on radio or TV. He played for Philadelphia teams and then the L.A. Lakers. He was also a member, off and on, of the Harlem Globetrotters (an exhibition basketball team who were entertainers with their zany basketball moves--I loved them when I was a kid!). Though I was probably six years old, I remember many of the events discussed in this magazine. It's interesting that they did an article on Wilt, a black player, in the same issue as they covered the school racism / bussing issue. And as another commenter said, with the serious problems with racism abounding, they chose to put the article about hemlines on the cover. I bet because that would sell more magazines at the checkout stand. :-)

What a relaxing walk through a little slice of history. Thank you for a wonderful video!

This was great. You are always coming up with things that are both interesting and surprising. I’ve been going through some rough times and your videos are the only thing that relaxes me enough to sleep. So once again. Thank you ❤

Hi Melange, regarding the "Which would you pick up? Guess again article. Just two months after this magazine was published the Kent State massacre took place in Ohio where 4 students were killed by National Guardsmen. The reference to "radicals" comes from the students that were protesting the Vietnam war, and "Spiro" is referring to Spiro Agnew, who was the Vice-President under Richard Nixon. The song "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young was written about this infamous event in United States history.

@ShinnoEli

8 ай бұрын

I did wonder if ”Canada” might be a reference to draft-dodging.

I'm sure the reference to Canada is about young men moving north of the border to avoid the military draft and the war in Vietnam. In the 1970s, there was a small but significant number of Americans who did emigrate to Canada for that very reason. Leon Panetta would later serve as Secretary of Defence, Director of the CIA, White House Chief of Staff and other high-profile roles under different Democratic administrations. Joan Didion (pronounced Joan, as in Joan of Arc) was a famous writer and journalist. I love your videos.

The timing of this was really amazing. That article by Leon Panetta was written just months after President Nixon forced him to resign as Director of the Office for Civil Rights, which Nixon appointed him to in the first place. As one of the headlines said, he was fired for enforcing the law and not allowing places to keep schools divided by race. The traces of history running through the whole magazine is just remarkable. There was a reason why for decades Life was one of the most respected publications in the world, strange adverts aside. (I wonder if ads became more visual because we started thinking of them as a frame of a video, instead of a page of a magazine)

Ahhh, the 70s. A magical decade where puke green was considered a pleasant color for household decor, you could get a suit made by DuPont, and a motorcycle made by a bowling company.

A brand new Ford for $1995. Gotta love those gold standard, pre-inflationary prices.

@nataliefaust7959

9 ай бұрын

I'm afraid those are very much post-gold standard, inflated prices. We abandoned the gold standard in 1933. We still used it for international conversion until 1971 though, which might be what you're thinking of, but that had no impact on domestic prices.

The change to a magazine instead of a map was a nice change 😊

Brilliant. We loved the Whixley 'creepy ad!!!!

You know, I'm not mad about that nature inspired house and the funky conversation pit

I was curious about that house, so I Googled a bit, and it looks like it was still around and in good shape as of 2013. I'm not sure KZread will let me post the link, but if you search "Seattle Times" and "House made of foam finds loving owners", it should pull up the article.

The stick is back

@m0ntypth0n

9 ай бұрын

Thank God!

@valerieaugust3847

9 ай бұрын

Long live the bamboo skewer!

Oh my gosh! Edward Abbey! Probably one of the most infamous and remarkable wilderness writers and advocates ever. You should read the Monkey Wrench Gang if you haven't.

my granny has some of these the 1920s.

The line at 27:15 about siding with Spiro about campus radicals is a reference to Vice President Spiro Agnew in the Richard Nixon Administration. Spiro Agnew was the lead on attacking the media, the hippies/campus radicals, and the "Nattering nabobs of negativity" during the Nixon Presidency. What they're saying about this guy is that he's a reactionary, who doesn't like social change, and prefers the societal norms of, say, the 1950s. For the 4th guy, Canada was where Vietnam draft dodgers went. Pigs is a reference to cops/police.

Always so good Thank you, Ms

More like this please

Here's what they meant by "Fraternity man. Could even side with Spiro about campus radicals" Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon's Vice President, a very conservative/right wing politician (Republican). The fraternity guy was likely to be a Republican as well and 'side with Spiro about campus radicals' means that he probably didn't think protesters and the hippie movement were valid forms of free speech and would side with the Vice President on cracking down on those 'disruptive elements'. Spiro even gave a warning to voters to be wary of too‐liberal Republicans. So that's the super condensed version.

"Communes. Pigs. Canada." The fourth guy is into communes, calls authorities pigs, and favors peace, dodging the draft to Vietnam by fleeing to Canada. But like the UofD study, it's all an assumption.

In time for bed.

Am I crazy or do they have an article on the integration of schools ? But the cover story is about the hemline of women’s skirts ??

@nataliefaust7959

9 ай бұрын

Capitalism/consumerism is the American priority sadly.

@ShinnoEli

8 ай бұрын

I'm quite a bit younger than the magazine so wasn't there for it, but I'm guessing the topic of school integration was probably too divisive at the time to run that article as the cover story without hurting sales, at least in some areas. (Or the editorial department assumed it would be; publishers tend to err on the side of caution.) I note they did devote more actual pages to school integration than hemlines, so they did recognize that it was important.