In October 1962, the world held its breadth as the United States and the Soviet Union faced off over Moscow’s decision to install missiles in Cuba.
Like more recent issues of the magazine, this one included a wide range of stories, from a piece profiling “Western Samoa: The Pacific’s Newest Nation” to another about sending “Robots to the Moon.” But the main attraction for me, and the reason my friend sent it, was the cover story, which was all about Los Angeles, or as it was described in the heading: “Colossus on the western shore, Workshop of the Space Age, Babylon on the freeway, and California’s City of the Angels.”Īs I leafed through the magazine’s pages, reading the 50-page cover story and looking at the dated, text heavy advertisements, I wondered what was going on in the world at that time. Last year a friend of mine mailed me an issue of National Geographic from October 1962.
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