Tucked away between technical books no one wanted at a library sale, I found ten issues of the long defunct Eye Magazine from 1968. The large, oversized glossy was trying to cash in on the youth market, but being a Hearst magazine it kind of missed the mark. It was like Rolling Stone-for your grandparents. No matter, I quickly purchased them figuring they would at the very least, be fun for Danny.
Someone kept those magazines in pristine condition and they still had the pull-out posters (by Peter Max) and flexible records they used to give away as promotions.
Looking through nearly a year’s worth of magazines from 1968, I’ve been able to learn a few things:
Cops like to beat up middle class college students
Mint green eyeshadow and frosty white lipstick is always a bad choice
Buffy Ste. Marie was REALLY popular (she was in nearly every issue)
Everyone wore Jean Nate Bath Splash
Birth control was a lot less controversial than it is today
I will try and get some of the more interesting pages photographed and posted on line, but until then, you really will have to take my word for it-the green eyeshadow thing looks really bad.