Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for October 03, 2013

“Timeless” is another good phrase to describe Ms. Ritz!

Mr. Gowers?Hot Dog!

Reminds me of the line from Seinfeld— “They’re real, and they’re spectacular!”

What’s ‘spectacular’ is the way she fills out that sweater!

Wonder if he’ll eventually pop “the question?”

Careful there, boy…you don’t want to leave the impression that you think she’s old. (Even thought she is!)

“You make me feel so young,You make me feel like spring has sprung…..”

Phil and Fritzi together – perfect way to start the day!

Where I live, we call them malts, not malteds.

Yes. One diner is generally south of Lafayette, LA. Wait staff uniforms based on Mel’s Diner. Stuff on the walls generally early 1960’s. Photo of Elvis when he was being process in the US Army.

Yes to his comment of last panel.

I remember getting a malted at the drug store, not the diner. My paradigm had me thinking Gower Drugs until diner was mentioned, then I had to go back and read again.

The retro diners you speak of are basically fun tourist traps. Reals 1950s malt shops were often located near high schools offering an alternative to the school lunchroom even having cigarette vending machines (there were no surgeon general warnings or enforced laws against minors smoking then) and jukeboxes with the latest top-40 hits and room to dance.

OK, nobody commented on the look Fritzi’s giving Phil in the last panel? She may have already given herself mentally and emotionally to him, but he just totally made her melt there.

Fritzi looks good in frame one, but definitely unspectacular in frame 3. Better brush up your profiles, Guy.