Inside Vintage Magazine Mecca in Pennsylvania - Arthurious

When Fran DiBacco started his vintage magazine collection in the 1970s, it started with just a few titles. Today, his collection comprises of 135,000 issues of Life, Esquire, Holiday, Playboy, The New Yorker, and many other titles from the 1900s and on. While offering original issues as anniversary gifts, Fran has been building out “The Vintage Magazine Nostalgia Center”, a visual space and exhibition showcasing American visual culture through magazines and ephemera.

One of the many spaces in the warehouse with industrial shelving and neatly organized magazine titles

Each magazine title is organized by year, month and week of its release

Owner Fran DiBacco have recently turned 80 but his passion for vintage magazines keeps him running all day

In the main space of The Vintage Magazine Nostalgia Center, each space is designed to represent a decade with visuals, photographs and through magazine pages

One of the detailed scale models of a typical American main street in the exhibition

Vintage Magazine Shoppe
Visit by appointment only
1460 Grandview Ave, Paulsboro, NJ
vmshoppe.com

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