The current Michigan Today has a slideshow article featuring covers from various football programs. The 1925 OSU program is copied below, but they're all worth a peek if you like this sort of thing. Article is here: http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2012/10/slideshow/index.html#1 .
1925 Ohio program...
Love the old programs. I've
Love the old programs. I've thought about about buying some of the posters they've made from the programs and framing them.
Forever For Michigan
These are awesome, and the
These are awesome, and the background stories are fascinating as well. Good read.
Hail.
I think...
I think these are incredible…a little infusion of artistic interpretation to a game void of it to the untrained eye. In this same vein, the wallpaper that Monumental creates (TheArtTheArtTheArt) is one of my favorite things on this board.
I have no idea what programs look like now (haven't been to a game in 12+ years), but I think it'd be great to allow for student/artistic illustrations to make a comeback on programs. These are great printed time capsules.
Thank you very little.
I haven't been to a game in
I haven't been to a game in 20+ years. How much are programs now? 25 cents is probably about $3 adjusted for inflation.
They're more than $3 now.
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Formerly 'mgoblaniel.'
$5, though I'm sure in a few
$5, though I'm sure in a few seasons they'll be more like $45.
Hail to the college whose colors we wear,
Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue!
This is why I come here
Thanks for posting the link. I love looking at the old programs, and I never would have stumbled on the site on my own. Go Blue!
In October of 1929 they had a
In October of 1929 they had a 100% increase on program price. Not fair!
Edit: and a few weeks later it's back to 25 cents and stays that way for over a decade. I wonder why the Harvard program was so expensive.
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
I think the price jumped
for that Harvard issue because of the "Mirror Image" special edition (maybe?).
Love how otherwise the price is 25 cents from 1925 through 1941. Ahhh, the good old days before the Fed went bat shit crazy.
"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan." - Brady Hoke
Interesting
Regarding the decrease back to 25 cents, one would almost think that something happened in late October 1929 to change the amount of disposable income among college football fans.
I guess we will never know what that might be.
Seriously, though, I wonder if the Harvard game was a "premium" game at the time, and the program (and ticket?) prices reflected this.
Too lazy
But I wonder how much $.25 in 1929 dollars would be in 2012 dollars.
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
$3.31
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Edit: Meant as a reply to FreeTheFabFivePlz. I was sure I hit reply and everything...
Go Blue!
looks a little bit like Terelle Pryor had his chauffeur drop him off right at the gates, and is arriving in style.
/mgo2011
Go Blue!