Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 24, 2018

Boy, THAT dates this strip!

i remember those garages….my mom would not have approved my being there….but where else was i going to take my 1970 gran torino with its sagging suspension and bald tires…got 3 gallons to the mile…..i loved that car….

Ah yes, one could get an education in garages thusly decorated. The one I see nowadays has pictures of cars on the calendar. At least they are Real Cars and not these computerised driblets out on the road.

Pirelli calendars.

Ridgid Tools are the ones I remember; they seemed to be in most repair places back in ’60s and ’70s.

I’m old. I can remember as a kid seeing Marilyn Monroe on a calendar at the local Sunoco station. That was back when they gave out free maps, pumped your gas, washed your windshield, checked your oil, and added air to your tires if you asked to have them checked also, every time you stopped for gas. Couldn’t buy beer or much else that wasn’t auto related though…is was a gas station/garage…not a convenience store.

He better not go into politics.

Yes. They’ll get bent out of shape for no calendars with women on the wall, but I can’t walk down the street without seeing young women showing every bit of skin or wearing the tightest of clothing with words across their butts and breasts.

I remember once on a tour in Israel where the bus visited Bethlehem in the West Bank. It was dusk as we were leaving and we drove by a repair shop with the garage door open and lights on inside as they were still working. On the wall was a large poster of that putz Yasser Arafat. Even worse than a girlie poster.

Rigid Tools Calendars were once a fixture in every garage, plumbing shop, and construction site in the country. Alas no longer.

They gave out free smiles.

I think the comic writers are on vacation, and this rerun was accidentally dated incorrectly. September 24, 2018? Correct date must be September 24, 1968.

Don’t bother pleading your case to the next Supreme Court…

Hey! Those calendars are getting hard to find these days! HHMMM… Maybe a business opportunity?

I wonder what Art Frahm’s copyright holders are getting for celery pictures?

No girlies? OK, maybe Irv’s gay. So what?

Seriously?! He didn’t like your prune juice of the month calendar?

I recall some wag writing about how you could tell how good a garage was by the number of “gimme” calendars with either barely clad women or customized hot rods on them were on the walls.