Weekly Reader ceasing publication

[dhermann1]

In another disheartening sign of the times, My Weekly Reader is ceasing publication. For those outside the US, Weekly Reader was a little newspaper published for elementary school students. It's been around for over 100 years. I read my first Weekly Reader in 1954. Learned a lot of good stuff from it. Darn shame.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...7/ny-post-my-weekly-reader-is-shutting-down/1

 

[AmateisGal]

Awww, man. I loved that little newspaper in school.

 

[Espee]

I remember two articles, circa 1967. One was about a new layout of shopping center called a "mall."
The other was about those nuisance birds, the starlings.

 

[dhermann1]

I remember one from fall of 1954, about a new airplane Boeing was building, called the 707. A jet passenger plane!

 

[Undertow]

Oh bummer! I loved that when I was a kid! Boy, that kinda smarts to hear that they're closing. I haven't seen one of those in a little while now, but I remember getting a few issues as a gift.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Somewhere in the trunk full of my old school papers is a copy of the Weekly Reader issue announcing the premiere of an exciting new concept in children's TV, "Sesame Street." I remember reading that article and thinking "hmph, it'll never last."

 

[scottyrocks]

I read them all through elementary school. Couldn't wait to get it in my hot little hands.

 

[AmateisGal]

I distinctly remember an article they featured on a man who had chronic hiccups. He could only eat food out of a blender. I can still see the picture of him, too. Every time I get hiccups, I think of that article. Every. Time.

 

[DeaconKC]

I used to love those. Every Thursday we would get them.

 

[ButteMT61]

Yeah, this is how life goes. People, places, things all change or pass. I don't want to live to 100. Or maybe Alz will set in and I'll forget all this stuff I loved.