Items of Interest
My main business is selling vintage advertising from 1940s and 1950s magazines. You can see the ads I have available here.

While scanning through hundreds of vintage magazines looking for classic advertising I often come across interesting items that cause me to pause. Internal magazine stories are difficult to market but also difficult to pass by. I have started to scan articles in my particular areas of interest and will post them here for all to read. These will mostly be stories on 1950s celebrities and athletes. I hope you find something you like.

Star Weekly Hockey Pin-Up ChecklistStar Weekly Entertainer Pin-Up Checklist
Each season, from the mid-1950s through the 1965-66 season, The Toronto Star Weekly issued photos (one per issue) of NHL hockey players during the winter months. Information on these is hard to find but I have put together a visual checklist that may help collectors.From late 1957 until early 1959 celebrity pin-ups of musical performers and actors were a regular feature in The Toronto Star Weekly. I don't know if anybody but me collects these but I have put together a checklist.
Hockey StoriesMiscellaneous Stories
Lou
Fontinato:

The Rangers'
Rough Diamond
When Leapin' Lou comes on the ice, he's greeted with a mighty roar, for fans know they'll see opposition players strewn about like ten-pins

By Jim Proudfoot, Mar. 3, 1956, Toronto Star Weekly

The Slinky Story

Dec. 21, 1946
Saturday Evening Post

Louis Jaques:
The Man Who Shoots Stars

Vol. 9, No. 2, 1959 Weekend Magazine

Baseball Cover Up

Dec. 31, 1947
Saturday Evening Post

GLENN HALL:
Meet the Wings' New Goalie
Big things were in store for Glenn Hall when he hit Detroit's farm system and now, his apprenticeship over, he's setting a hot pace

By Jim Proudfoot, Feb. 4, 1956, Toronto Star Weekly

Miscellaneous Sport Photos
ERIC
NESTERENKO:

Another Conacher Coming Up?
Though observers differ
in their ideas as to who
Nesterenko looks like and
what he will produce, all admit
'he looks NHL'

By William Drylie,
Feb. 28, 1953
Toronto Star Weekly

RED SULLIVAN:
Black Hawks’ Big Bargain
This trading-est and buying-est team engineered probably its best deal in purchasing Red Sullivan, who stepped up from minor league hockey to gain recognition almost overnight as a top NHL centre

By Jim Proudfoot, Jan. 14, 1956, Toronto Star Weekly