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Chas. Strauss
October 31, 1942
Smith
October 26, 1946
October 24, 1925
Mischa Richter
October 14, 1944
Don Tobin
September 2, 1950
Bill Hoest
November 4, 1967
Simonsen
November 4, 1967
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Comments
Notice the tall cigarette ashtray that has been knocked over in the first cartoon from 1942.
Brings back memories of my grandpa and grandma’s duplex tenant house, where each chair in the tv/family room had one next to it.
The two cartoons from 1946 and 1925 respectively caught my attention. The pranks yes, but also what they used. How many kids of today would know how to operate a crawler or carry and use a pocketknife, unless they might happen to be raised in a rural area.
For those younger readers, cartoon #4’s reference to “points” has to do with the rationing of certain products, including food during WWII, that required government issued stamps (points) to buy certain foods like meat, sugar etc. Thus everything in her potion required no points to buy.
This was a big goal for meal preparation during the early 1940s for families on the homefront.
There are some really oldies but goodies here, definitely. #5 down from 1950 was a little surprising being many weeks before Halloween, and in full color. No wonder Grandpa was upset in #3, and Dad in #7, right?!