[Jarred Santos]

When newspapers ruled​

Image Credit: Facebook/Australia Remember When

Nowadays, we consume our news straight from our phones or computers. For today’s blast from the past, we have this image taken in 1960 at Melbourne’s Flinders St. Station newsstand. Just look at all those newspapers and magazines silently begging passersby to take a glance at their pages. It’s not like they’re all gone today, but you must admit, print media are far from their glory days. Did you or your parents have a preferred newspaper or magazine growing up? And how do you feel about almost everything being on smartphones and computers now? Tell us below!

If you have similar photos and memories, our Nostalgia/Yesterday's Australia forum is always open for you.

 

[Veggiepatch]

With the gradual disappearance of the printed newspaper, most magazines have become extinct. All Sydney newspapers, with the exception of the Sydney Morning Herald (I think), had a morning and afternoon edition. Remember when you could walk into a newsagent, aka paper shop, and browse through the magazines for hours before the owner asked you to leave? Publications from model planes to knitting, from motorbikes to cooking, there was a magazine for everything. They were like miniature libraries! But with a cost.

No more. Someone invented a thing called the internet and printed media went the way of the dodo. So all our news, hobby interests and sports have switched to e-zines and digital editions. The only advaantage of this is that it saves on space and clutter, and reducing a fire hazard I suppose.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I Remember when the paper boy would deliver the newspaper every afternoon between 4pm and 5pm

You had your choice of the Sydney Daily Mirror or the Herald, we chose The Mirror abd every Monday we also got the TV Week

Now we only get the papers delivered Saturday and Sunday and it's digital during the week.

 

[Veggiepatch]

I Remember when the paper boy would deliver the newspaper every afternoon between 4pm and 5pm

You had your choice of the Sydney Daily Mirror or the Herald, we chose The Mirror abd every Monday we also got the TV Week

Now we only get the papers delivered Saturday and Sunday and it's digital during the week.

I refuse to buy newspapers anymore. The ad content is ridiculous. One Friday Herald-Sun some weeks ago masqueraded as a catalogue for The Good Guys and JB Hi Fi. About 30% of the paper comprised of these two retailers without taking into account the other retailers.

Stuffed if I'm paying $2.80 for what gets delivered in the letterbox.

 

[Gsr]

I always buy our local towns newspaper, it used to be bi weekly, now it is weekly. Sometimes it is only 4/6 pages. I buy it to try and keep it as a printed version as a lot of older residents of our town love this paper and have been buying it all their lives. A lot of these residents don’t have access to digital media and love reading the paper, especially if they are unable to get out and about as much as they’d like to. I don’t bother with any other papers, either printed copies or digital.

 

[gordon1940]

Selling papers in St Georges Tce, Perth I would call out "Paper Sir" and when some smart alecs would answer "Nah cant read" I would reply " Just stick it under your arm and look intelligent " Got an occasional smack in the ear.