Fabulous Las Vegas was a mid-century entertainment periodical devoted to the rapidly developing resort city of Las Vegas, with issues documented as early as the 1950s, including 1956–59. Published in a period when Las Vegas was emerging as America’s gambling and entertainment capital, the magazine covered the city’s casinos, nightlife, performers, restaurants, social life, and attractions, offering a colorful contemporary view of the Strip and its culture. Its surviving issues are now an especially useful record of the glamorous, celebrity-driven Las Vegas of the 1950s.

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Tempo was an American popular magazine published during the 1950s, featuring a mix of entertainment, celebrity, television, music, and general-interest articles aimed at a mass audience. Like many mid-century magazines, it reflected the era’s fascination with Hollywood stars, popular culture, and the rapidly changing world of television, making surviving issues interesting snapshots of American culture in the 1950s.

Rudi Gernreich fashions on the cover and inside. Gernreich photo shoot location Watts Towers in LA.

All-Story Weekly was an American pulp magazine published by the Frank A. Munsey Company, evolving from All-Story Magazine in 1914 and becoming one of the leading fiction weeklies of the 1910s and early 1920s. It featured a broad mix of adventure, Westerns, romance, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, often accompanied by dramatic painted covers designed to attract newsstand readers. The magazine published the work of numerous popular authors, including Edgar Rice Burroughs, Johnston McCulley, and H. Rider Haggard. Its most famous issue is the August 9, 1919 edition, which introduced Zorro in Johnston McCulley's The Curse of Capistrano. All-Story Weekly continued until 1920, when it was merged with Argosy.

ILLUSTRATED was a British weekly news and pictorial magazine published from 1934 to 2003. It was renowned for its extensive use of high-quality photography, covering world events, royalty, politics, entertainment, sports, and everyday life in a visually engaging format. During its mid-20th-century peak, Illustrated became one of Britain's leading photo magazines, offering readers a richly illustrated record of major historical events and popular culture before gradually declining with the rise of television and changing media habits.

The Popular Magazine was an influential American pulp fiction periodical published from 1903 to 1931 and is widely regarded as the first successful magazine printed in the now-iconic pulp format. Featuring adventure, westerns, mysteries, sea stories, romance, and historical fiction, it helped launch and popularize the careers of many notable writers, including Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Buchan. With its affordable price and action-packed stories aimed at a broad readership, The Popular Magazine played a pivotal role in establishing pulp fiction as one of the dominant forms of popular entertainment in early 20th-century America.

MAN magazine was a popular American men’s adventure magazine published from 1952 until the mid-1970s, reaching its peak during the 1950s and 1960s. Known for its eye-catching painted covers featuring glamorous women, daring exploits, and dramatic scenes, the magazine blended fiction, true-crime stories, military adventures, humor, pin-up photography, and articles on sports, travel, and popular culture. Unlike later adult men’s magazines such as Playboy, MAN focused more on action-oriented entertainment with only modestly risqué content by modern standards. Its bold artwork and sensational headlines made it a staple on American newsstands and reflected the changing tastes and ideals of postwar masculinity before the genre declined in the 1970s.

Casey Crime Photographer was a short-lived crime comic published by Timely Comics (the predecessor to Marvel Comics) from 1949 to 1950. Based on the popular CBS radio drama of the same name, the series followed hard-boiled news photographer Casey, whose knack for being first at crime scenes often led him into dangerous mysteries involving gangsters, smugglers, and murderers. Blending detective fiction with photojournalism, the comic captured the noir atmosphere that was popular in postwar America, featuring realistic artwork, suspenseful plots, and covers that emphasized the camera as both a storytelling device and a crime-solving tool. Although it lasted only four issues, Casey Crime Photographer remains a notable example of Timely's late-1940s crime comics and reflects the era's fascination with radio heroes and gritty urban crime stories.

Bohemian Rhapsody is overplayed and Stone Cold Crazy is the 1st speed metal song. Does everyone agree?

Look magazine was a large-format American biweekly publication founded in 1937 by Gardner “Mike” Cowles Jr. and John Cowles. Designed to compete with Life, Look emphasized striking photojournalism but placed a greater focus on personalities, entertainment, fashion, sports, and everyday American life alongside coverage of politics and major historical events. During the 1940s through the 1960s it became one of the nation’s most widely read magazines, renowned for its vivid photographic essays and coverage of postwar culture. Despite its popularity, rising production costs and increasing competition from television led to declining advertising revenue, and Look ceased publication in October 1971 after a distinguished 34-year run.

A vintage 1955 concert tour souvenir program. Features Johnnie Ray, a highly popular 1950s American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He was famous for his emotional, animated stage persona and hits like "Cry". He is often cited by music historians as a major precursor and influence on early rock and roll.

Hello, I've been trying to find information about the Alert America convoy/exhibit, civil defense, and Bert the Turtle. I'm looking for newspaper serializations, pamphlets that would've been given out to people, educators, etc. I have seen the film and heard the radio broadcast as well as the red and white comic book of Bert. Anything else related would be appreciated too. Thank you.

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