![]() ![]() ![]() An in-depth interview with Jimmy Hoffa shortly before his disappearance made my jaw drop. The ratio of text to images favored the former, the weight of each magazine making me consider what the average human attention span in the US must have been before the internet. A gorgeous, cobalt-blue Colt 45 ad proclaimed, “Bottom’s up!” in upside down writing under an upside down beer glass, while ads for cigarettes and bell-bottoms, both equally seductive, graced every fourth page. ![]() Though they may well have been infested with bed bugs, the old magazines proved almost charming. I find the history of popular magazines fascinating, so he correctly figured the Playboys would make a welcome addition to my personal library. My brother showed up at my door last month with a stack of ‘70s-era Playboy magazines that he’d come across on the street outside my apartment.
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