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Kirt Blattenberger, Webmaster - Airplanes and Rockets

Kirt Blattenberger

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Even during the busiest times of my life I have endeavored to maintain some form of model building activity. This site has been created to help me chronicle my journey through a lifelong involvement in model aviation, which all began in Mayo, MD ...

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January 1939 Boys' Life
Table of Contents

January 1939 Boys' Life

January 1939 Boys' Life - Airplanes and RocketsTable of Contents

The Boy Scouts of America has published Boys' Life since January 1, 1911. I received it for a couple years in the late 1960s while in the Scouts. I have begun buying copies on eBay to look for useful articles. As time permits, I will be glad to scan articles for you. All copyrights (if any) are hereby acknowledged. Here are the Boys' Life issues I have so far.

Ralphie Parker Reading January 1939 Boys' Life - RF CafeThis edition of Boys' Life, BTW, is the one that Ralphie Parker is shown reading in bed in the movie A Christmas Story.

January 1939 

Vol. XXIX, No. 1

 

BTW, contrary to Ralphie Parker's copy in A Christmas Story, there was not a Red Ryder BB gun advertisement on the back cover.

 

We Can't Go On! - Admiral Byrd's 2nd Antarctic Expedition 5
Have You Seen Them Before? 23

 

Table of Contents for January 1939 Boys' Life - Airplanes and Rockets

Back Cover January 1939 Boys' Life - Airplanes and Rockets

January 1939 Boys' Life back cover - it did not have a Red Ryder BB gun ad!

 

 

Posted December 12, 2015