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| Staff of Life magazine @1988 |
All the "girl" magazines, that is, or profitable ones—In Style, Real Simple & etc and the cash cow, People. The boy magazines, Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune are apparently so elderly and unmarriageable that no one will have them. They will be kept to dwindle away or die the Life digital death. And they are selling the Time-Life building.
It feels personal. All the talented, bright people who were nurtured by that company, like a small town before the Warner and then AOL "mergers"—just gone. I myself spent some 17 years at Life and worked at People three separate times, including as copy clerk on the very first issue, and just before, thank fortune (no, not Fortune), taking the last great buyout in 2001. Now it feels like my toil was valueless. Magazine history has been downsized.
Some say Company began going downhill after Haddon died; others after Henry Luce died. I say sell Apple while the sellng's good.
ReplyDeleteI see you! hiding behind those big glasses..a sign of the times...everything changes...keep writing, you're good at it...I still vote for the autobiography...
ReplyDeleteNow, now. You still DID all those great things, interviewed all those famous people, and were a star in your own right.
ReplyDeleteStill, I know how you feel.
Probably the way the men and women that designed Penn Station felt in 1963.
Or should I say.. how Charles Follen McKIm felt.
ReplyDeleteAnd amazingly enough... remember how I drew a parallel between how you feel about Time Life being sold, and how I feel about Weir Farm being taken back to 1940, effectively erasing all visual evidence of my family's 55 year tenancy?
McKim was one of the men who designed our dining room at "The Farm".
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Not to mention you and me.
I think we should repair to Missouri.
"Valueless." Are you crazy? What a career you had and think of the body of work you created. Valueless, shmaluless!
ReplyDeleteThe world has changed is all.