The last Thunderbird, Ford Motor Company’s iconic sports car,
emerged from a Ford factory in Wixom, Michigan on July 1, 2005.

On December 3, 1979, the last Pacer rolls off the assembly line at
the American Motors Corporation (AMC) factory in Kenosha,
Wisconsin. When the car first came on the market in 1975, it was
a sensation, hailed as the car of the future. “When you buy any
other car,” ads said, “all you end up with is today’s car. When you
get a Pacer, you get a piece of tomorrow.” By 1979, however, sales
had faded considerably. Today, polls and experts agree: the Pacer
was one of the worst cars of all time.        
        

After 34 years, the final issue of Look magazine was published.    
    
    
    
Look magazine was generally considered a competitor to Life magazine,          
which began publication months earlier and ended in 1972, a few months     
after Look ceased publication.

First issue, February 1937.

Collier’s magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier, was initially launched
as Collier’s Once a Week, then changed in 1895 to Collier’s Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, and finally shortened in 1942 to simply Collier’s. The magazine ceased publication with the January 4, 1957 issue, though a brief, failed attempt was
made to revive the Collier’s name with a new magazine in 2012.

 
Peter Fenelon Collier (December 12, 1849 – April 23, 1909)

Look ceased publication with its issue of October 19, 1971,
the victim of a $5 million loss in revenues in 1970 (with TV
cutting deeply into its advertising revenues), a slack economy
and rising postal rates. Circulation was at 6.5 million when it
closed.

The Look Magazine Photograph Collection was donated to
the Library of Congress and contains approximately five
million items.

Film director Stanley Kubrick was a staff photographer for
Look before starting his feature movie career.