Back in the fall of 1986, during my first visit to Manhattan as an adult, I made a point to visit Mad at their former offices on MADison Avenue. When I arrived only a young woman was in, at the front desk, and to my surprise after I told her I had been a fan of the magazine for many years, she cheerfully gave me a brief tour of the offices. There were brown cardboard storage boxes piled a few layers high in many places in the hallways, and I got to see a model of the Mad zeppelin hanging from the ceiling in William Gaines’s cluttered office. In the reception area there were a number of foreign language issues of Mad, and I took a Greek and a Finnish one as souvenirs. So glad I did visited them. Years later in 2000 I stopped by their offices on Broadway and it was totally different.
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