# Newspaper features pages when you were a kid: what do you remember? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191 "2024-08-25T09:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/41 "2024-09-16T01:16:46Z")
Never been much of a newspaper reader. I read the sunday comics when dad bought the paper. As an adult I got national news from Time and Newsweek when they were still readable. My mom got Finnish magazines, as the papers were too thick to send. I asked my grandmother to add the four sunday supplements from the Helsinki paper when she sent the monthly package to my mom. It had news, more interviews and culture. In towns where I lived i always went to the back of the paper (laying around) to check the coming weekend’s concerts and events. ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/42 "2024-09-16T02:01:34Z")
I remember leafing through the Tempo. It was only my dad that read thw whole Chicago Trubune. We were Chicago residents some 4-5 years, last part in W suburbs. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/43 "2024-09-16T02:11:07Z")
Our good friend Mr. Larson got the low-down on a certain environmentalist: [https://images.app.goo.gl/WaVggQfFnXcKJzPJ7](https://images.app.goo.gl/WaVggQfFnXcKJzPJ7) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/44 "2024-09-16T02:50:52Z")
Are we sure that is actually Larson, and not a knock off? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/45 "2024-09-16T03:06:42Z")
Living in both Bremerton and Port Orchard growing up, we had The Bremerton Sun (now Kitsap Sun). A page and a half of elaborate obituaries, an entertainment section that included society stuff, every theater, even drive-ins and x-rated movies, and a two page comics section that included Dick Tracy, The Thompson Twins (loved those girls), Abbie N’ Slats, Dondi, Our Boarding House, Mutt and Jeff and so many more, There was three to four pages of sports, and want ads that sold _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/46 "2024-09-16T03:34:38Z")
Our regional paper, **The Daily Breeze** (SoCal), had an entertainment section on Fridays that had movie and tv listings and local upcoming events, etc. My favorite part was the middle section that was printed on pink paper and had the tablature and lyrics for popular songs. Back then it wasn’t easy to find lyrics so I looked forward to that. There was also a weekly quote by Ashleigh Brilliant. I miss newspapers and am ridiculously grateful that I got the opportunity to work at one for several years. Yes, I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/47 "2024-09-16T19:45:43Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I remember the cluster of, er, “grown-up” comic strips – _Mary Worth_, _Apartment 3-G_ and _Rex Morgan, M.D._ – that I never bothered reading. That portion of the page was like a black hole. Honestly, if you printed the secret to riches and immortality there, I wouldn’t have known. Speaking of black holes on the comics page, I quit reading Dilbert many years ago and was pleased when it was dropped because the creator turned out to be a racist asshole about a year or two ago. The replacement in the Chicago Tribune, a strip called Grand Avenue, is nothing special but is still worth reading. To this day, I still need to remember to actually look at Grand Avenue, because I’m so accustomed to skipping that spot on the comics page! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/48 "2024-09-17T00:20:25Z")
I alreays tried to read Ripleys Believe It or Not and Weird News. Sports and Comics Front Page I can’t remember the exact name. This section had cooking recipes, home maintenance, gardening, sometimes local history. Like, this Hardware Store was opened in 1937 by Tom Howard. It’s now run by his grandson. A lot of subjects went into this section throughout the year. My parents received two newspapers. The local, small town paper, and the large city paper _The Shreveport Times_. Thats a 100 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191/49 "2024-09-17T00:27:47Z")
Milwaukee Sentinel had the “Green Sheet”. 100% features & comics, printed on Green paper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-features-pages-when-you-were-a-kid-what-do-you-remember/1006191.md?page=2)