Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 24, 2015

What with Gary over on the next block, it’s getting harder and harder to take a walk nowdays.

These guys take up the whole sidewalk. You have to squeeze past them.

And Chester has been known to grab one’s ……ahem, cough…….blush.

Bev

Ah the good old days! I loved the Helms Man! Mother got all her baked goods from him, and every once in a while I got a Cream Puff. And Orbachs Department Store, I saw Debbie Reynolds shopping there. Little Black Sambo’s, great pancakes even if it was the most un-PC place ever!We had a Kenny Rogers in Vancouver, food was so-so tho.Thanks.

SusanWhere are You?

….. (groooaaannnn) ……..

It’s probably a good thing that Aaron Stanley & Gary Sanders aren’t next-door neighbors. If they were, methinks the Sheriff would be spending altogether too much of his time there. I shudder to imagine the possibilities.

I’m here, 2Old…. thanks for asking.but not for long…I guess I fell asleep in a back booth…I suppose everybody thinks that means I’m old too….

Well, yeah…. it probably does.

Fenton, Sid can stay another hour…. call if you need me, but I gotta go home for now, and sleep, so I can check on the day shift tomorrow.

Can’t wait till the Monkey comes back.Are you doing OK, Monkey?

@rgwalther…um… “Little Black Sambo” is “honest”???

Whoa.

@beviekFor some reason, at the moment GC is not letting me reply to your “remember these?” post. I sure do. Heck, some of them are not even that old. But the image of Sir Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man, next to the old dentist’s chair, was one I did not need to recall. That one will give you the willies for sure.

Good morning.

HI!How ya DOIN?

“See you later,” Aaron said.“Not if I see you first,” I answered.

Wife….“Honey, get the taser ready.”

I heard that WalMart has hired Aaron as a store greeter.

Hey, you kids! Get ON my lawn!

Stephen was having a birthday party and asked everyone to dress in their birthday suits .

Ryan, on the other hand thinks Gary and Stephen are exhibitionists. He was invited on a walk once, but when he saw Gary……..

Sheriff Monkey best get home and do something about Stanley soon.The neighbors up on my end of the streat have started burning him in effigy.