Different Slants

 Usually, this space is reserved for poetry and short stories.

However, since 99.9% of the planet is unaware of my incredibly diverse vintage back-issue magazine store just north of Chicago in colorful Skokie, Illinois, I decided to intermingle my separate worlds.  All five of my books are always available for purchase and signing, in case you want to meet the eccentric who wrote the following:

Mad Magazine. To those of you old enough to remember it when it was funny–a looooog time ago–I am selling out hundreds of them from the 1980’s to recent for $10 or 3 for $25. I also have a limited number of paperbacks which are collectible, from the 1950’s to the ’70’s, mostly one-of-a-kind. Nice gift for geezers. I also have a separate section where the more collectible issue of Mad, Crack and Sick are organized by artist. Nice when framed to decorate an office if you were fans of the styles of Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, Al Jaffee, Don Martin and other notables from Mad’s early years. www.theoldmagazinestore.com where the unexpected gift can make someone smile for a long time (847) 677-9444

New store departments: Butterflies & Insects; Kurds, Eastern Europe & Russia; Michael Jordan; Dinosaur & Neanderthals; Scandinavia; British & USA Jazz mags; Dr Who (but only a few). Come visit a rare experience. Buy a present that shows someone you love, that you really thought about it first. Open Mon-Sat NYC, LA, Miami, Philly etc-Bet you wish you had an Old Magazine Store, too, like Skokie does. (847) 677-9444 The way stores used to be. Please like this page so that others will know about us, too. Thanks.

Imagine a homeless poster, gathering dust, cold, hungry, friendless, sleeping in the shadows. Time passing it by, its image gradually unrecognizable by succeeding generations.
Mom, Dad– who was Clark Gable?  Who was Marilyn Monroe?  Yoda?  Elvis??
Why are there still posters existing with their pictures on them?  Were they famous??

You can stop this travesty. Adopt a poster. Now. Today. Five dollars.
Make public radio wait. Skip a latte. Give a poster a home.

50,000 posters of every imaginable type formerly priced at $40 to $200 are now $5 and $10 each at the frequently incomprehensible Old Magazine Store.com in serene Downtown Skokie. Too serene.

Every poster must go. Pronto. Organization is totally random, so first come, first served. Expect chaos. Fun! Make a lonely poster smile.

Movie–Fantasy–Charts–Educational–Rock ‘n Roll–Crime–Military–Pinup (male & female)–Animation & Disney–Star Wars–Star Trek–Horror–Historic–Aviation–Trains–Cars–Jazz–Black History–Israeli Posters–Maps–Western–Farm Equipment–Film Noir–Chicago History & World’s Fairs (1893-1933)–Rockwell–Fashion–Motorcycle–

Cigarette–Asia–Beer–Native American–Famous Newspaper Headlines–Cops–Classical Music–Coca-Cola & Pepsi–French Ads–19th Century Industrial–Fireman–Hunting & Fishing–old sports– 1920’s-30’s mini posters of the Golden Age of Hollywood…

Cover your walls. Home Theater. Restaurant. College town stores e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e will all have the same boring posters. Give your kid something stimulating for their walls. Stock up for Christmas gifts now!! (847) 677-9444 Ask for Bob (a kindly person) Appt. possible.

Open every day, mostly.Saturday: 10–2 Daily: 10–5 (unless I’m seeking the meaning of life, and close at 4:30).  Please like this page.

Seeking to supply local e-bay store people with collectible magazines and poster items for them to sell. Not interested in the new corporate “e-bay” stores popping up, just serious, experienced, honest and motivated individuals who understand what they’re doing on the internet and who want make money and build a business.
I prefer person to person contact, but then, I’m out of the past. Good opportunity. Persons who want to know more can come to my store in Downtown Skokie, or call (847) 677-9444
Liking this page may help make some person aware of it who needs work or a chance to become successful and happy. Maybe a tech-savvy veteran. Lots of them coming back or already here, not enough jobs. These are brave people who need second chances–in this country.
Sometimes, a vivid imagination and a lot of gumption can overcome many obstacles to ambition. I hope to meet people like that, and soon.

 More gift ideas for urban sophisticates seeking less boring gifts: 

The Old Magazine Store.com in Skokie has Playboys from 20 different countries, besides about 700 diff American editions, and a zillion of their special newsstand only editions, too.

So, a pretty surprising gift to the right person would be America’s most famous sensual magazine printed in:

Russian, Polish, French, Greek, Romanian, Czech, Spanish (Mexico, Spain and Argentina), South Africa (Eng.); Japanese, Australia; Chinese (Hong Kong, Taiwan); Italian; German; Portuguese (Brazil); Turkish; Dutch (Holland) and Hungarian.

Most foreign editions are $39.95 — buy 3/get 4th issue free! Not organized by date and no, you can’t read them first. Come in here and check this strange place out! You can call me: (847) 677-9444

New Yorker Special Issues at The Old Magazine Store.com:

Arts & Architecture; Adventure; Digital Issue; Education; Europe; Fashion; Fashion Focus; Food; Debut Fiction; International Fiction; Summer Fiction; Winter Fiction; Humor; Home; Innovators; Journeys; Money; Music; Movies; Politics; Style; Sports; World Changers; plus other one-shots.

Some issues sold out. Only slightly organized, but all in one place. Kinda like our government. I’ll be here to help the teeming masses seeking culture. Famously beautiful frame-able cover art. Cartoon Issues not included in this offer. Finite supply. Nothing reserved. $49.95 each, + tax.

Buy 3 magazines/get 4th issue free! Fantastic gift for right person.

The Old Magazine Store.com carries thousands of car magazines from 1950 to 2000. 

Car & Driver; Road & Track; Motor Trend, Hot Rod and many long extinct car magazines. Also a ton of $5 car-related posters in my filled to the gills clearance room (buy 5/get 6th poster free!). Please tell your friends who are into this kind of thing and also like us on Facebook, please. More great gift ideas from the Chicago area’s coolest store! Feel free to call me: (847) 677-9444.

Katzman’s Old Magazine Store.com in Skokie has one of the largest and most comprehensive collection of Black history as recorded in the nation’s newsstand media between the 1940’s and 2010. The many topics include:

The Civil Rights Struggle: Heroes and Villians
Malcom X:Life & Death
Olympic Protest (raised fist issue)
Martin Luther King’s Life
The Rise of the Black Middle Class

Segregation in the US Army during WWII
The Role and Rise of African-Americans in the Entertainment Industry
Harlem and Urban Riots across America
Writers-Directors-Actors-Filmmakers-Playwrights
Musicians-Singers-Sports Stars
Satire in Mad and Cracked (less than you might imagine)

Segregation In the South and Resistance
Politicians-Lawyers-Scientists
Playboy Magazine and the (bad) reaction to its 1st Black Cover Model
Playboy as above except to its 1st Black Centerfold (same thing)
Business leaders and their Rise in America’s 500 Companies

I can tell you one thing, my readers, that it has been incredibly difficult to assemble this collection over 50 years and try to attract interested scholars, teachers, students, ordinary people who want to show their children how bad it used to be in this country if someone was a person of color

A collectible paper store in Skokie is not the ideal location to become noticed by the larger Black community. So, help me. Tell people. Like this page. Say something positive using whatever social media you feel would work. Tell someone connected to Black radio, newspapers or web sites to come see what I’ve attempted to do here. Good things don’t happen by just one guy swimming against an indifferent tide. People need to know, and care.

Think about it, though, and then do something.
(847) 677-9444 4906 Oakton St.,Downtown Skokie.
theoldmagazinestore@iCloud.com (847) 677-9444 // M-F 10-5 // Sat 10-2 // closed Sundays. Thanks.

Another crazy gift idea from The Old Magazine Store.com for lonely Martians of any gender or species:

We carry a massive collection of:

Fangoria, Conan the Barbarian

Femme Fatale—Star Log

Eerie—Creepy

Spirit—Science Fiction Age

Cinefantastique—Tomb

Space:1999—Odyssey

Planet of the Apes—Star Burst

Future—Heavy Metal—Doctor Who

Beside the above, many, many movie posters—large and small—for $5 & $10 eac

Also, and more collectible, we have Jane Fonda in full drag on the cover of Life Magazine as Barbarella making an argument for the 2nd amendment in a leather outfit few could argue with, 46 years later.

The original Life Magazine’s 12-page full color layout on the first Stanley Kubrick 2001 Space Odyssey movie. Jane’s not on this cover, but it is very cool, nevertheless.

A McCall’s Magazine 20-page feature cover story about the future, much too weird to describe here.

If you haven’t been in my cozy Skokie store, perhaps a streaking meteor may hit you. At any time. Why chance it? Find shelter among the pages of the past. Find out who won the Civil War.

We accept all credit cards, but sorry, no more live chickens. Sigh…

(847) 677-9444 Go on. Call the Eccentric

7– I write stories and poetry & have published five non-fiction books about Chicago and my life. Some reviewers compared my style and content favorably to urban writers such as Studs Terkel, James T. Ferrell, Nelson Algren and Charles Bukowski. A major difference between the five of us might possibly be that I’m not dead.

6,000 books sold to date. You can read my recent as yet unpublished in book form at www.DifferentSlants.com The menu on the right side of the screen makes it easy to navigate my site, find stories or poems that intrigue you and explore my eclectic life where “the path less traveled” has evidently been the only path I’ve followed.

A good example would be “Wasp-Killer MBA” of how I see the world, or in that case, in 1959.

You can also buy my books directly from me at my Downtown Skokie vintage magazine store, where I sign them when I sell them. I can also be hired to read them to private groups or organizations. I ship everywhere in the USA.  Feel free to call me at my store, (847) 677-9444

Come ogle The Old magazine Store.com New Fashion Periodical Section for male/female/whatever people interested in vintage or current styles. 1950’s to 2010. Some titles available at this time:

Vogue—GQ—Vanity Fair

—Esquire—Bazaar—American Girl

Ingenue—Seventeen—Cosmo

—Young Miss—Glamour

Elle—Marie Clair—Allure

—In Style—Cosmo—Allure—

Vogue Patterns +

100’s in stock, not organized by name or date (I get tired, sometimes y’know…) and a perfect gift for someone, somewhere, especially if they are studying design, advertising or are artists who might be inspired by what used to be hot and fashionable–sixty years ago.

I’m here, more or less, every day. Don’t be afraid to call me. That’s what phones used to be for. Talking. (847) 677-9444–Bob

Amazing EASTERN EUROPEAN & RUSSIAN PERIODICAL RESOURCE is now in my Downtown Skokie store. Come to see what I’ve assembled after sorting through 30,000 periodicals back to 1910. Revolution, Czars, Lenin, Stalin, Tolstoy, Wars, Pogroms, Fashion, Architecture, Religion, Art, Jewelry, Writers, Poets, Russian Playboys and wild murderous Cossacks on horseback.

I am named after two of their victims, father and son, one of them beheaded. 1914-1916 Maybe that is why I want to know why people are the way they are.

I unearthed 600 different American periodicals so far, all for sale, and organized into 126 different sections. It is not a library and we don’t allow anyone to read our periodicals because they are fragile and would eventually disintegrate.

But students or professors who need original source material might want to know we exist. I hope you will respond and look at my website, or call me. (847) 677-9444

Great gifts for immigrants from the old country or people who simply want to know more about that mysterious part of the world. Only four stores like mine left in the USA. Don’t wait for another Revolution to check us out.

Robert M. Katzman (who is Byelorussian, Lithuanian and Polish)
The Old Magazine Store .com
Where Print Still Lives!
4906 Oakton Street/Skokie, IL 60077
(847) 677-9444 // Mon-Fri: 10-4:30/Sat-Sun 10-2

Dinosaur Frenzy!! The Old Magazine Store .com has an exciting new display of 70 different periodicals from 1919 to recent about:

1-– The relentless search for man’s origins in the African Rift

2– Cave paintings

3– Fossils discoveries

3– The evolution in thinking about what dinosaurs actually looked like

4– Why, when and how dinosaurs became extinct

5– The rise of mammals

6– Theories about how mankind evolved from primates to becoming human

7– What present day creatures had dinosaurs for ancestors

8– The evolution in thinking about what dinosaurs actually looked like 

See what Time Magazine, Newsweek, Scientific American and National Geographic thought was the truth as each decade passed.

For example, after extensive investigation, scientists and anthropologists know for certain that a person’s Mother-in-Law did NOT come from Tyrannosaurus Rex, despite all evidence to the contrary.

It took me long time to assemble and record all this information, but now the Downtown Skokie store’s Dinosaur Department is ready and one or more of those magazines could be a perfect gift for someone obsessed by evolution and the Terrible Lizards!!

MICHAEL JORDAN MAGAZINE DEPT. now open, right next to the new Dinosaur Frenzy Dept. Logic isn’t important here. Selling old magazines is. We have about 100 different Jordan magazines, almost all of them are cover stories and frame-able, too. Very limited inventory of any one magazine, they were acquired when he was playing many years ago, and when he wasn’t. See Michael play baseball! See Michael play golf! See Michael wipe the basketball court with just about every living player from his time.

The Old magazine Store .com 4906 Oakton St. Downtown Skokie, open daily. Call Bob with questions and for directions: (847) 677-9444

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