Life and Look were big deal magazines when I was a kid. Look was like Life but it had a lot less pictures as I remember. Look always seemed to me that it was for smart people, like The New Yorker or The Nation. Life was always the big picture magazine that even a small child could enjoy.
Look to me was read by beatnicks in the east village on 8th between A and B Avenues while Life was the happy magazine that was in every barbershop or coffee table in America.
We don't have any magazines like that today. Let's say that you rented a house for the summer and there was a stack of old Life and Look magazines, trust me, you'd read Life first.
The above photo of Life we had in our basement for years, well into the 1990's. It housed a bunch of different grades of sandpaper between its pages. I can still smell the pages, that stiff chemical smell of the ink. Good times.
If you look at a magazine rack today there are so many different kinds of magazines, not one that covers it all like Life did.
I don't know, but I imagine that there is a magazine out there just for stomach exercises. Of course you wouldn't get that in Life. You'd get candid shots that were like.. Life.
Perhaps next time I'll talk to you about the wonders of Popular Mechanics. "Build Your Own Submarine", come on!!!
Kurt
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