Detroit News Pictorial Magazine

[Smirnoff]

Back in the day & as a kid.....the pictorial was something I looked forward to each week.

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[Hermod]

The Pictorial Magazine replaced the Rotogravure [[my maternal grandmother always called the Pictorial the Rotogravure). My grandfather worked for the Detroit News selling advertisements for the Rotogravure.

[Ray1936]

Lyrics from Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade": '...and you'll find that you're, in the Rotogravure.....'

How can one forget?

[Smirnoff]

The Pictorial Magazine replaced the Rotogravure [[my maternal grandmother always called the Pictorial the Rotogravure). My grandfather worked for the Detroit News selling advertisements for the Rotogravure.

Curious - was the Rotogravure actually a weekly magazine like the Pictorial or just a photo section?

[Ray1936]

Curious - was the Rotogravure actually a weekly magazine like the Pictorial or just a photo section?

Pretty much just a photo section. The word, Rotogravure, comes from the type of printing that was used.

[Hermod]

Pretty much just a photo section. The word, Rotogravure, comes from the type of printing that was used.

Ray, according to my grandmother it was a Sunday insert just like Pictorial or This Week. The printing used a brown colored ink rather than the more common black ink.