Gasoline Alley

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  1. Frank Sanoica

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    For some reason, Gasoline Alley popped into my head today, and also the name "Skeezix". I avidly read the "funnies" as we called them, sometimes referred to them as the "jokes", Chicago slang, likely. Reminisce at it's best! So, I "Wiki'd it. Some results.....Frank

    "Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second-longest-running comic strip in the US (after The Katzenjammer Kids) and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations.[1] In addition to inventive color and page design concepts, King introduced real-time continuity to comic strips by showing his characters as they grew to maturity and aged over generations."

    Cannot read captions, but the idea is there:[​IMG]
    Frank King's Gasoline Alley and That Phoney Nickel (March 12, 1933)

    Skeezix arrives:
    The baby, named Skeezix (cowboy slang for a motherless calf), grew up, fought in World War II, and is now a retired grandfather. Walt married after all, and had more children, ........

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    Young Walt Wallet (r.), 1920

    See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Alley
     
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  2. Chrissy Cross

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    I remember Gasoline Alley but not sure if I read it or not but knew the minute I saw the name what it was.
     
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