My collection of TV Guide Fall Preview issues dates back to 1974. They document my evenings growing into wifehood and motherhood. Your piece makes me wish I’d also saved my Seventeen magazines!
Loved this! Especially how you link the promise of a new school year with the fall TV season: "A season symbolic of new starts, one that could lead to surprise hits and inevitable flops for both the networks and me." Great stuff. (Though now I can't stop thinking about the ill-fated Friends "Joey" spin-off.)
My collection of TV Guide Fall Preview issues dates back to 1974. They document my evenings growing into wifehood and motherhood. Your piece makes me wish I’d also saved my Seventeen magazines!
Amazing example of how “mundane” objects can be such strong anchors of identity.
Loved this! Especially how you link the promise of a new school year with the fall TV season: "A season symbolic of new starts, one that could lead to surprise hits and inevitable flops for both the networks and me." Great stuff. (Though now I can't stop thinking about the ill-fated Friends "Joey" spin-off.)