Back Issues of Sunset Magazine
I'm trying to track down the date of publication of an article that I believe appeard in Sunset Magazine in the 60s. We recently purchased a second home that was originally built by friends of the family. My mother believes that the house was featured in Sunset magazine while she was growing up in the 60s. The owners names were Floyd and Ole (or Ola) Johnson and the house was located on Blakely Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. The house was completed in around 1964, so I'd imagine tha t the article would have appeared around then. My mother seems to recall that it was featured because it was all electric. We've recently remodled it and discovered, it was clearly state of the art at the time -- central vac, built in blender/food proces sor, dropped celings and lovely dressing rooms. This was particularly unusal because the island was extremely remote. I've already contacted Sunset magazine directly, but they were unable to help me. I was thinking that maybe one of the big archive serv ices like Lexis Nexis may have cataloged stories that far back. Any help in directing me to resouces or the actual issue date would be wonderful! |
Back Issues of Sunset Magazine
Best bet is to go down to your local library and look in the Reader's Guide
to Periodical Literature. Most online indexes only go back ten years or so, but the RGPL usually can go back 100 years. Hope this helps. - Dewolla Stepon "C. Smith" wrote in message ... I'm trying to track down the date of publication of an article that I believe appeard in Sunset Magazine in the 60s. We recently purchased a second home that was originally built by friends of the family. My mother believes that the house was featured in Sunset magazine while she was growing up in the 60s. The owners names were Floyd and Ole (or Ola) Johnson and the house was located on Blakely Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. The house was completed in around 1964, so I'd imagine that the article would have appeared around then. My mother seems to recall that it was featured because it was all electric. We've recently remodled it and discovered, it was clearly state of the art at the time -- central vac, built in blender/food processor, dropped celings and lovely dressing rooms. This was particularly unusal because the island was extremely remote. I've already contacted Sunset magazine directly, but they were unable to help me. I was thinking that maybe one of the big archive services like Lexis Nexis may have cataloged stories that far back. Any help in directing me to resouces or the actual issue date would be wonderful! |
Back Issues of Sunset Magazine
I always loved the RGPL as a research tool - it was so much fun just to
meander through it. Cheryl On 3/30/04 9:32 AM, in article jyfac.36843$JO3.29023@attbi_s04, "Dewolla Stepon" wrote: Best bet is to go down to your local library and look in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. Most online indexes only go back ten years or so, but the RGPL usually can go back 100 years. Hope this helps. - Dewolla Stepon "C. Smith" wrote in message ... I'm trying to track down the date of publication of an article that I believe appeard in Sunset Magazine in the 60s. We recently purchased a second home that was originally built by friends of the family. My mother believes that the house was featured in Sunset magazine while she was growing up in the 60s. The owners names were Floyd and Ole (or Ola) Johnson and the house was located on Blakely Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. The house was completed in around 1964, so I'd imagine that the article would have appeared around then. My mother seems to recall that it was featured because it was all electric. We've recently remodled it and discovered, it was clearly state of the art at the time -- central vac, built in blender/food processor, dropped celings and lovely dressing rooms. This was particularly unusal because the island was extremely remote. I've already contacted Sunset magazine directly, but they were unable to help me. I was thinking that maybe one of the big archive services like Lexis Nexis may have cataloged stories that far back. Any help in directing me to resouces or the actual issue date would be wonderful! |
Back Issues of Sunset Magazine
"C. Smith" wrote in message ... I'm trying to track down the date of publication of an article that I believe appeard in Sunset Magazine in the 60s. We recently purchased a second home that was originally built by friends of the family. My mother believes that the house was featured in Sunset magazine while she was growing up in the 60s. The owners names were Floyd and Ole (or Ola) Johnson and the house was located on Blakely Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. The house was completed in around 1964, so I'd imagine that the article would have appeared around then. My mother seems to recall that it was featured because it was all electric. We've recently remodled it and discovered, it was clearly state of the art at the time -- central vac, built in blender/food processor, dropped celings and lovely dressing rooms. This was particularly unusal because the island was extremely remote. I've already contacted Sunset magazine directly, but they were unable to help me. I was thinking that maybe one of the big archive services like Lexis Nexis may have cataloged stories that far back. Any help in directing me to resouces or the actual issue date would be wonderful! Visit a local university library, they've often got old magazines on microfiche or microfilm. You won't get any color photos, but at least you can read the story. As others have already said, use the readers guide to do your initial leg work, otherwise you'll spend months burning out your eyeballs trying to read old magazines on microfiche. Sameer |
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