The magazine before the magazine

[Felicity_Fan85]

I was surfing the 'net a while ago and forgot that I found this picture of a magazine from the 40sor 50s(?) that was called American Girl. I thought that was neat because many years later Pleasant Company came out with American Girl magazine.

http://www.gssherry.com/images/1058.jpg

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ August 04, 2006 11:20 AM: Message edited by: Felicity_Fan85 ]</font>

[KimberBee]

That's so cool! I wonder if maybe that's where Pleasant got the idea for the name? Probably not, but it's nifty to think about.

[*AG Star*]

Cool! It looks like the people on the catalogue are wearing some kind of Girl Scout uniform.

[DaisyDee]

As a GS leader, I have seen some of those covers before. I don't know if that mag was produced solely for Girl Scouts, but it was certainly very involved with the organization.

[Polly Marie]

Thanks for the link. [img]smile.gif[/img]
A good picture of the 40's girl scout uniform. [img]graemlins/camera.gif[/img]
Polly Marie

[ams37]

That's really neat. i would love to get ahold of a copy and scan it to make a smaller copy for Molly

[samo22]

My mother read them. [img]smile.gif[/img] It's been around since the 1920s, I believe, and continued as we see it there into at least 1980... so it seems maybe American Girl magazine now took it over?

[kitandkat]

Someone at Girl Scouts was talking about that! They were confused, and thought they were the same magazine, lol. I think it used to be the GS magazine, like Boy's Life is for boys... now the old American Girl Magazine is related to Girl's Life.

[cowgirlsue]

Hey, some of us read those old magazines! I remember getting piles of back issues and reading them in my closet with a flashlight, LOL. You'd have thought they were contraband! They definitely had a GS connection. I remember being confused by the current AG issue, wondering if it was the same magazine from my youth.