[Milsurplus] "The Titanic" - book on magazine racks now

[Mike Feher]

While most of the equipment depicted is correct, this is not the radio room
on the Titanic. I have seen numerous ones in the past, none handy, but the
photo here will probably satisfy most of the readers. 73 - Mike 

 

Mike B. Feher, N4FS

89 Arnold Blvd.

Howell NJ 07731

848-245-9115

 

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Subject: [Milsurplus] "The Titanic" - book on magazine racks now

 

On the store magazine racks right now is a large magazine - format offering,
"The Titanic",  $13.

I bought this at the Fred Meyer ( Kroger ) store. Probably no new
groundbreaking material here,

but I found it quite interesting throughout. There are a lot of graphics,
lots of stories on various

interesting Titanic facts and stories; furniture, menus, artifacts,
survivors, myths, more. For me,

the listing and reviews of the various 'Titanic' movies over the years is
really interesting, and I'll 

look these up as time allows. If you're still intrigued by this story, you
might want to look up this

book. 

 

There is one photo of a radio room, I show it below. At first I thought,
that can't be right - it looks

really cramped, and the operator is sitting on what looks like a crate? The
accompanying text 

comments on the radio operator job as offering upward mobility for working
class young men,

but does not claim this photo to be the Titanic radio room. Possibly they
got this image from a

postcard or period wireless magazine. 

 

I noticed in the last few years the magazine racks tend to more and more of
these "special editions",

with titles such as "Women of the Bible", "Gut Health", "The Mind of the
Dog", anything that might

fly. My guess is that as paper subscriptions to all kinds of publications
continue to decline, this is

the way periodical publishers try to maintain. 'Special edition', special
reports, "Collector Edition"

( right..), and so on. It seems to me, but not sure, that this was the
publishing model in much of the

underdeveloped 'Third World' countries, not that this is not necessarily a
judgment; I'm just commenting

on the changes I see. 

-Hue Miller

 



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