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Historical Newsstand and General Store Photos - comics era
Yoc:
Thanks Bob, there are some photos where they even advertised the owner was blind on the side. I've just added some samples of vendors with disabilities.
It seems at some point in time these outdoor newsstands suddenly were no longer wanted and legislated out of existence.
-Yoc
Yoc:
Here's some more pictures from the comics era. One doesn't have comics but is still fun:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1942.04-05.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1942.07-newsstand.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1942.10.27-LIFE.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1942.11_newsstand.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1943.04-Baltimore_Maryland_workers.jpg 1 2 3 4 5
#1 - 1942.04-05
I could only locate 3 comics...
Zip #26 (May 1942)
More Fun #78 (April 1942)
and Fight Comics #18 (April 1942)
Original source unknown.
#2 - 1942.07-newsstand
This newsstand (location unknown) displays pulps dated July 1942.
Esquire | July 1942 in upper row middle
http://archive.esquire.com/issue/19420701
VOGUE June 15 1942 top row, far right.
Bottom middle above newspaper SILVER SCREEN magazine July 1942, featuring Deanna Durbin
Found here:
http://www.thepulp.net/yellowedperils/2011/03/28/turning-back-the-clock/
#3 - 1942.10.27-LIFE
Source unknown.
On the floor beside the comcs rack:
Life Magazine October 27, 1941.
https://2neat.com/magazine/product/life-magazine-october-27-1941-air-raid-spotter/
Comics:
On the wall behind her (top to bottom, L-R)
Coo Coo or Zoo Comics ?
Terry and the Pirates ?
Thunda ?
Fighting Yank unknown
On the rack (top to bottom, L-R)
Human Torch unknown
Magic Comics possibly #37 (August 1942)
Joker Comics #3 (September 1942)
Ace Comics maybe
Adventure Comics maybe
Buck Rogers maybe
Thrilling Comics
Exciting Comics
#4 - 1942.11_newsstand
pulps along its lower shelves: Exciting Storts, Exciting Mystery, Fight Stories, Detective Story, The Shadow, Short Stories, West and more.
www.thepulp.net
Original source unknown.
Middle row far left to right;
Animal Comics #1 1942 [September 8] ?
Fairy Tale Parade #3 (October-November 1942)
Unknown 'Monkey' title
Fight Comics unknown,
Super Comics #54 (November 1942)
Fight Comics unknown,
Big Shot Comics #29 (November 1942)
Fight Comics #22 (December 1942) under sign
America's Best Comics v1#3 (3) (November 1942)
Real Life Comics #8 (November 1942)
Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #15 (November 1942)
Shadow Comics v2#7 [19] (October 1942)
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Far right front -
Headline Detective (November 1942)
http://www.heartwoodbooksandart.com/Headline-Detective-November-1942_p_9075.html
Shadow Comics v2#7 [19] (October 1942) most likely
#5 - 1943.04-Baltimore_Maryland_workers
Taken by Marjory Collins of two workers looking at newspapers while waiting for a trolley after work in Baltimore Maryland in April 1943.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017849716/
Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection
Look closely and see there are 8 different comics in the photos and one of them is Gift Comics #3. Gift #3 is a 324 page square bound of different Fawcett titles printed at the same time as the individual original comics bound inside. So based on the appearance of the other comics and the April 1943 issue of Esquire magazine
Comics:
Batman 17, Detective 75, a Crack, a More Fun and a Wow
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1943.09.07-newsstand.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1945.04-LIFE.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1945.10.25-women_at_soda_fountain.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1946.03-Chicago_newstand.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1946.08.24-Newspaper_vendors-Tacoma.jpg 6 7 8 9 10
#6 - 1943.09.07-newsstand
A woman poses in front of a street-side newsstand in fall 1943. The stand carries the following pulps: Doc Savage (maybe September 1943), The Masked Detective (Spring 1943) and Exciting Love (Fall 1943).
LOOK Magazine - September 7, 1943
https://2neat.com/magazine/product/look-magazine-september-7-1943/
Comics: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories v3#12 (36)(September 1943), Thrilling Comics #38 (October 1943), unknown Love title.
Found on www.thepulp.net
Original source unknown.
#7 - 1945.04-LIFE
U.S. Teenage Boys in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945.
Nina Leen/Time & Life Pictures/Getty.
http://www.formerdays.com/2012/01/teenage-boys-of-1940s.html
A bio with many more sample of her work can be read here:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-surreal-world-of-nina-leen
Comics:
Top left-
Exciting Comics #38 (April 945)
Capt. Marvel Advenures #46 (May 1945) x 3
Right row-
Black Terror #10 (May 1945)
Shadow Comics v5 #2 (May 1945)
Red Band #4 (May 1945)
Don Winslow of the Navy #26 (May 1945)
Black Terror #9 (Feb 1945)
Everybody's Comics #1 (1944)
Mystery Comics #3 (1944) x 2
#8 - 1945.10.25-women_at_soda_fountain
Missouri State Archives - Soda Fountain (MSA)
Photographer/Studio: Unknown
Collection Name: Commerce and Industrial Development Photograph Collection
Description: A group of young women eat at the counter of drugstore soda fountain.
Date: October 23, 1945
Rights: Copyright is in the public domain.
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: CID_041-236
Institution: Missouri State Archives
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62812729@N06/8598934010
#9 - 1946.03-Chicago_newstand
A chicago newsstand from March 1946 where you could get a lot of personal stuff done: birth/death certificates, marriage licenses & income taxes.
Comics: Action 95 (April 1946), Flash 71 (May 1946), Boy Commandos 14 (March-April 1946), Modern Comics 49 (May 1946), Shadow Comics 61 (April 1946), All Funny 11 (May-June 1946), Detective Comics 110?, Real Fact 2 (May-June 1946), Super Duck 7 (April 1946), Batman Comics 34 (April-May 1946), Star Spangled 56 (May 1946) & Green Lantern 19 (April-May 1946)
Found on the Pulp.net
#10 - 1946.08.24-Newspaper_vendors-Tacoma
Richards Studio A23440-2
Newspaper vendors--Tacoma
Image Date: 1946-08-24
Description: Rothermel News Agency. A very well stocked news stand sells comic books for 13 cents each. They have Bantam Books for 25 cents. Magazines including Real Story, Life Experiences, Post, Colliers and Movie Life fill the shelves. A lunch counter is behind the magazine racks and canned goods are displayed against the back wall. Rothermel News Agency was a wholesale news dealer in Tacoma.
Comics:
Roly-Poly Comics #10
National Comics #56 (October 1946)
Blue Bolt (Novelty-v7#5 [71] (October 1946)
Sports Stars #4 (September 1946)
Land Of The Lost Comics
Wonder Woman #19 (September-October 1946)
Police Comics #59 (October 1946)
True Aviation Picture Stories Parents #15 (September-October 1946)
Master Comics #72 (September 1946)
Funny Folks #4 (October-November 1946)
Modern Comics #54 (October 1946)
Take care,
-Yoc
erwin-k:
Thanks for this latest batch, Yoc.
Number eight about brought my mind to a screeeeching halt. The layout of the place totally reminded me of Hall's Glendale Pharmacy on Sappington Road in Glendale, Missouri. (That's in suburban St. Louis County.) I bought a lot of comics there in the late 1950's thru the mid-1960's.
Have to admit, tho, we rarely had any girls sitting at the soda fountain.
Yoc:
Hi Gang,
Here's another batch of newsstands in the comics era.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.01-newsstand,_Saint_Louis,_Missouri_2.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.05.06-union-news-madison-wi.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.07-harlem-newsstand-Sid_Grossman.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.08-Medford_Oregon_drugstore_Dorothea_Lange.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.08-new-york-Rudy_Burckhardt.jpg 1 2 3 4 5
#1 - 1939.01-Magazines at newsstand, Saint Louis, Missouri
Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Magazines at newsstand, Saint Louis, Missouri. Missouri Saint Louis Saint Louis. United States, 1939. Jan. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017724668/.
COMICS rack, far left (t - b)
Star Comics unknown,
Funny Picture Stories (Centaur) v3#2 (March 1939)
Detective Comics (DC) #24 (February 1939)
Single Series (United) #2 (1) (1939) -Broncho Bill
Action Comics (DC) #9 (February 1939)
Adventure Comics (DC) #35 (February 1939)
King Comics (David McKay) #35 (February, 1939)
#2 - 1939.05.06-Union News-Madison, WI
Source unknown.
#3 - 1939.07-Harlem newspaper stand
Sid Grossman (1915-1955) Federal Art Project
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG03-F26
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15580587
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e687af30-c6e8-012f-2a82-3c075448cc4b
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1939). Harlem newspaper stand, 1939 Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/75ece515-a2ae-388d-e040-e00a180601f1
A newsstand in Harlem includes several pulps from July 1939 deep within its display, including Horror Tales, Ace G-Man Stories, The Spider, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Operator #5, and Love Tales.
www.thepulp.net
COMICS hiding under the awning (top to bottom, l-r):
several unknown
Famous Funnies (Eastern) #59 (June 1939)
Tip Top Comics (United) #39 (July 1939)
Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur) v2#7 (July 1939)
unknown
Action Comics (DC) #14 (July 1939)
#4 - 1939.08-Medford, Oregon taken by Dorothea Lange.
Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Oregon. Medford. Half-grown farm boy on main drugstore corner in town. Jackson County Medford Medford. Oregon United States, 1939. Aug. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017773100/
A larger version can be found here:
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017773100/
COMICS (some are educated guesses)-
Detective Comics (DC) #31 (September 1939)
and Superman (DC) #2 (Fall 1939)
Single Series (United) #9 (1939) -Strange As It Seems
Feature Comics (Quality) #24 (September 1939)
The Funnies (Dell) #35 (September 1939)
Super Comics (Western) #16 (September 1939)
Tip Top Comics (United) #41 (September 1939)
Famous Funnies (Eastern) #62 (September 1939)
Crackajack Funnies (Western) #15 (September 1939)
Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur) v2 #9 (September 1939)
Popular Comics (Dell) #43 (September 1939)
Mickey Mouse Magazine (Western) v4 #12 [48] (September 1939)
King Comics (David McKay) #42 (October 1939)
Comics on Parade (United) v2 #6 (18) (September 1939)
Star Ranger Funnies (Centaur) v2 #4 (August 1939)
#5 - 1939.08-Shoe and Hat Cleaning, New York-Rudy Burckhardt
Rudy Burckhardt (American, born Switzerland, 1914–1999)
[Newsstand, New York City], 1939
Credit: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1972
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/682708
A number of pulps — including The Spider, Amazing Stories, Adventure, G-Men and other detective titles — are on sale at this New York newsstand in August 1939.
Possible comics showing bellow LIFE magazine:
Tip-Top (United) v4 #6 (42) (October 1939)
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1939.12.18-cleveland-ohio.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1940.07-Blue_Beetle_newsstand.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1940.08-Action_Mystery_Thrills.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1941.Fall-Action_Mystery_Thrills.jpghttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1941-Rolands_Newsstand,_Cannon_Beach_Oregon_coast.jpg 6 7 8 9 10
#6 - 1939.12.18-Cleveland, Ohio
Source unknown
This photo was taken in late 1939 or early 1940 at the Great Lakes Newsstand at the corner of E 105th Street and Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. There are a number of pulps dated early 1940 along the lower portion of the stand.
A Time magazine has a cover date of Dec. 18, 1939. The quality is poor because it was published as a halftone image in the fanzine Xenophile in the 1970s and originally pulled from a news agent publication from 1940.
Just out:
Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #2 (February 1940) - First appearance of Capt. Marvel!
Middle section, bottom two rows (l-r):
unknown
Ace Comics (David McKay) #34 (January 1940) guess
Champion Comics (Harvey) #3 (January 1940)
unknown Action Comics
Superman (DC) #3 (Winter 1940)
A something unknown
Feature Comics (Quality) #28 (January 1940)
Can't read the bottom row.
Smash Comics (Quality) #6 (January 1940)
#7 - 1940.07-Blue Beetle newsstand
Source unknown. Found on:
http://comicpixmad.blogspot.ca/2011/08/comics-window-1940.html?m=0
COMICS in back, bottom of window:
Mystery Men Comics (Fox) #13 (August 1940)
Pep Comics (Archie) #7 (August 1940)
Super-Mystery Comics (Ace) #v1#2 (August 1940)
Amazing Adventure Funnies (Centaur,) #2 (September 1940)
Future Comics (David McKay) #3
Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #7 (August 1940)
Exciting Comics (Pines) v2 #1 (4) (July 1940)
#8 - 1940.08-Action_Mystery_Thrills
From Action! Mystery! Thrills! - Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933-1945 (Fantagraphics-2011) credited to Kookie Enterprises.
COMICS - Second row back:
Super-Mystery Comics (Ace) v1 #2 (August 1940)
Amazing Adventure Funnies (Centaur) #2 (September 1940)
Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #7 (August 1940)
Thrilling Comics (Pines) v3 #1 (#7)(August 1940)
Front row (l to r)
Exciting Comics (Pines) v2 #1 (4) (July 1940)
Mystery Men Comics (Fox) #13 (August 1940)
Pep Comics (MLJ) #7 (August 1940)
Action Comics (DC) #27 (August 1940)
#9 - 1941.Fall-Action_Mystery_Thrills
From Action! Mystery! Thrills! - Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age 1933-1945 (Fantagraphics-2011) credited to Kookie Enterprises.
Lower right:
Movie Life Magazine (January 1942)-Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney
COMICS - that can positively be seen (top to bottom, l to r)
Our Flag Comics (Ace) #4 (February 1942)
The Eagle (Fox) #4 (January 1942)
Superman (DC) #14 (January-February 1942)
Amazing Man Comics (Centaur) #26 (January 1942)
Jackpot Comics (MLJ) #4 (Winter 1941)
Doc Savage Comics (S&S) v1#7 [7] (March 1942)
Daring Mystery Comics (Marvel) #8 (January 1942)
Punch Comics (Chesler/Dynamic) #2 (February 1942)
Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #6 (January 9, 1942)
Bottom row:
King Comics (David McKay) #70 (February 1942)
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell) v2 #4 [16] (January 1942)
All-American Comics (DC) #35 (February 1942)
Batman (DC) #9 (February-March 1942)
#10 - 1941-Rolands Newsstand, Cannon Beach Oregon coast
Found on http://historicphotoarchive.photoshelter.com/
Source unknown.
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#11 - 1943.11.13-Charles Phelps Cushing
1940s MAGAZINE NEWSSTAND AT NIGHT CORNER 42ND STREET & MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK CITY USA
(Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/ClassicStock/Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/1940s-magazine-newsstand-high-res-stock-photography/940279264
Top row:
Collier's Weekly (Nov. 13, 1943)
http://www.unz.com/print/Colliers-1943nov13/
To the right by the man:
Time Magazine (Nov. 15, 1943) - Gen. Pershing
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19431115,00.html
There's a Pep Comics on the bottom right near the man.
And some other comics hidden in the same bottom row.
#12 - 1946-SanFran_newsstand
African-American photographer David S. Johnson
A bio and more pictures by Johnson can be read here:
http://newfillmore.com/2013/03/03/photographer-made-his-mark-on-fillmore/
#13 -1946-SanFran newsstand-detail
COMICS -
Our Gang (Dell) #29 (Dec'46)
Punch and Judy Comics (Hillman) v2#5 (Dec'46)
Frisky Fables (Novelty) v2#9
Unknown Bugs Bunny
Polly Pigtails (Parents') #10 (Nov'46)
Cookie (ACG) #4 Dec-Jan'47)
#14 - 1947-Vicksburg, Mississipi
Landlady holding an unknown comic.
PAR35118
(HCB1946006W00003/25)
© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Asset/-2S5RYDJ1FKM.html
You can see more works by the photographer at this link:
http://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2K1HZO4VUWP3M8
#15 - 1948.04.10-Morris Huberland Collection, NYPL
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "New York, NY" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2018.
A much larger version can be found on this link:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f6eeb640-12ab-0133-8440-58d385a7b928
Front left - The New Yorker is from APRIL 10, 1948.
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1948-04-10#folio=CV1
COMICS - Far left:
New Heroic unknown.
4Most Comics (Novelty) v7#3 [28] (May-June 1948)
Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #85 (June 1948)
Right side rack (top left)
A Date With Judy unknown
Crime Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason) #63 (May 1948) x 2
Boy Comics #40 (Lev Gleason) (June 1948) ?
Wonder Comics unknown
Juke Box Comics (Eastern) #2 (May 1948)
More pictures to come!
-Yoc
SuperScrounge:
#1
"unknown 'Bill' title" - Broncho Bill, probably Single Series #2 https://www.comics.org/issue/206444/cover/4/
"unknown title at the bottom" - a toughy, but I'd say it's King Comics #35 https://www.comics.org/issue/172321/cover/4/
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