11.14.2008 11:02 am
Do you save old front pages for posterity?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Did you save the front page of the Post-Dispatch the day after Barack Obama’s election victory?
Almost a quarter (23 percent) of Americans say they are saving a newspaper with headlines about Barack Obama’s victory, according to a study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
What’s your threshold for saving “historic” front pages?
Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
Steve Parker is the deputy managing editor for news, and oversees the Post-Dispatch's front page. STLtoday's online news editors are on his newsroom team. Parker has been at the paper since September 1980. 
When my grandfather died, in cleaning out his house and emptying out his dresser, my Mother and her brothers and sisters found newspapers with headlines about the end of WW1.
When my Mother died and my brothers and I cleaned out her house, we found newspapers from Pearl Harbor, V-E day and for our family more importantly VJ day. Tucked away in its’ own special place was the front page when JFK was shot.
We will hang onto the front pages from President Elect Obama’s victory. Perhaps when we die, my grandchildren will find them in the bottom of a drawer and remember something about their grandparents.