Tomorrow, MAD magazine is vacating its offices on Broadway in New York for new digs. Here from a year or two ago is a brief tour of the old offices conducted by Dick DeBartolo, who's been writing for MAD since Al Jaffee had to do his fold-ins as cave paintings. Dick is also, as you may be aware, a frequent on-air contributor to whatever the heck TV show this is.
Once upon a time at its first location, the MAD offices were pretty dull. They didn't look that much different from the place in which a publication about preventive maintenance might be assembled. Visitors were therefore disappointed and the publisher, Bill Gaines, decided they had to decorate the walls with silly pictures and gags. The hallways at their office on Broadway were similarly colorful and right now, the crew is probably trying to make their new workplace funny. Here's where they're moving out of…