I'm an American baby boomer with a strange hobby. I collect mid-century women's magazines. My blog, MidCenturyPage.com is a result of a 20 year passion to scan the pages of these magazines and share them with anyone who wants to understand what mid-century women thought about, cared about, and worried about while living in the 1950's and 1960's
The 1958 Ladies Home Journal features an illustration of a smiling family promoting Barber-Pole franks, highlighting a recipe with French’s mustard and biscuit mix.
Thornton Utz’s illustrations in Cosmopolitan March 1959 accompany Robert A. Knowlton’s short story, depicting romantic scenes in a beach and hotel setting.