4 color magazines

by freedom96 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  freedom96

  Do you remember when the magazines first came out in full color? Wow, everyone was soooo excited.

  I remember a family in the hall that had two kids back at bethel, and they got a sneak copy. They had a get-together at their home, and it was passed around. People were so careful with it, as if it would break.

  Apparently, this was going to cause more people to get baptized, now that we were more with the times and bringing full color magazines.

  Afterwards, it was hung on the wall behind framed glass.
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  Brummie

  Yep I remember when they came out full colour! Couldnt wait to get them @placed@ and show off on the doors...If I remember correctly the first four colour ones where the "Armaggedon..what it is not"...etc ones?

  Brummie
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  Michael Collins

  The colour didn't improve the writing.

  Michael
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  Brummie

  "The colour didn't improve the writing."

  HAha...noticably.

  Brummie
  (which part of Ireland? you working night shift too?)
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  freedom96

  Good one Michael!
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  ballistic

  I remember getting several special editions in colour shortly before they all went full colour. I even remember the theme, it was about the declaration of peace and security and one had a picture of someone beating a sword into plough shear outside the UN.
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  ballistic

  em, dunno what happened there.

  Edited by - ballistic on 1 December 2002 14:17:46
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  gumby

  What magazine publishing company that is one of the largest.....downscales their quality?

  No more subscriptions, must pick up at hall and pay for them, must ask for donation. As for the books....no more hardcovers........thinner paper I think....sumpin wrong?
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  abbagail

  LOL@Michael!

  Yes, I remember very well. It was one of the big thrills of my Decade With The Dubs (no joke). I was standing with the C.O.W. and she showed it to me (I'm thinking the mag was the one with the face of Jesus on the front -- the "modern looking" Jesus with the short, somewhat curly hair, with the colored cloak hanging over his shoulder, with his hand outstretched-???). I gasped in delight as she showed me, exclaiming, "WOW! FOUR COLOR PRINTING!!!" She smiled and said, "You obviously know something about printing..." I said, yes, I had worked at a newspaper previously. I just went on and on and on, drooling with delight, also feeling "privileged" she had shown me the preview of what was to come. (Yes, I was a suck-up to the CO/DO's... always tried to "adopt them" like parents since I had no family in the JWs. Did my best to hang out with them at every opportunity -- in service, that is, during the week... hey, hardly anybody else ever went out in service during the week, so I usually got them practically all to myself). -- Anyway, what YEAR was that when those 4-color mags came out?

  Amazing the things you guys remember and starts threads about...

  Edited by - Grits on 4 December 2002 23:58:5