# In praise of vintage Playboy Magazine

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 21, 2009, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-vintage-playboy-magazine/510928 "2009-09-21T11:06:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-vintage-playboy-magazine/510928/21 "2009-09-22T20:45:56Z")

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> [@Martini\_Enfield](#):
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> I’m a big fan of “Vintage” magazines from the 50s-80s … but also _Popular Science_ and that sort of thing too.

Are you aware that Google books has full issues of ALL Popular Science magazines online? Popular Mechanics too.

Here is [January 1950](http://books.google.com/books?id=vSwDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false) for Popular Science.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-vintage-playboy-magazine/510928/22 "2009-09-22T20:57:24Z")

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An installment of Shel Silverstein’s Teevee Jeebies (those pages SFW) [http://playboy.covertocover.com/default.html?C=46&S=79](http://playboy.covertocover.com/default.html?C=46&S=79)

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ book: [http://playboy.covertocover.com/default.html?C=48&P=71](http://playboy.covertocover.com/default.html?C=48&P=71)

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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-vintage-playboy-magazine/510928/23 "2009-09-22T23:22:23Z")

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> [@jasg](#):
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> Are you aware that Google books has full issues of ALL Popular Science magazines online? Popular Mechanics too.
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> Here is [January 1950](http://books.google.com/books?id=vSwDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false) for Popular Science.

Oh Yes. Popular Science and Popular Mechanics on Google are but one of the many ways I spend my time when I’m not writing research papers. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-vintage-playboy-magazine/510928/24 "2009-09-23T02:19:49Z")

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I always suspected that Hefner’s inclusion of articles, stories and interviews was the effort of an intellectual dilettante of the 50s to put the bunny pictures on the level of ‘art’, and yet I’ll be damned if he didn’t succeed at it. There were some knockout interviews over the years, and a lot of great fiction.

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