Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 20, 2022

have a fun time, Charlie Brown

Uh-oh. Is this foreshadowing of an impending disaster?

Eugene Oregon had an old wooden stadium like that….until some punk kids burned it down. Yeah, I’m spreading the hate. Look it up for yourselves. Lot of father/son/daughter memories lost.

those were the days Charlie Brown!

Empty bleachers. Not a good sign.

The 70s were the Wood Age.

We had a minor league ballpark in our town called War Memorial Stadium (WW I). It was in a residential neighborhood. I was closed about a decade ago for a new stadium downtown.

Back in 1941 my father-in-law played ab away game there as a catcher with the Giants farm team. We did get him to a game before they closed the stadium. His career was cut short by WW II.

Aren’t all old style ballparks with wood bleachers?

8:00 game that was over by 10:00. Now games have to start at 7 to be over by 11.

even thee audience.

Does Charlie Brown’s father work with wood, aside from styling people’s hair?

With good old pealing green paint and slivers. And the ground littered with sunflower and peanut shells. And half eaten hot dogs stuck to pools of spilled soda.

Um, isn’t the Summer Camp missing him?

Why is CB the only one there?

I guess they don’t have the budget in Waffletown to clean the ballpark after each Syrup’s game. I’ve been to a lot of games in a lot of minor league parks and they all manage to clean the empty cans and garbage from the bleachers.

How did he get there from the summer camp? Even in the 70s campers wouldn’t have been allowed to go offsite by themselves, let alone the actual question of how he was transported there.

My Grandfather was a carpenter and put wood benchs in the Rose Bowl. The seat numbers were burned into wood.

There was a large wooden ball stadium in my hometown when I was growing up. Burned down one summer night. We lived on a hill a mile from downtown. It made a spectacular looking fire. The entire neighborhood watched and cried. After that, the large local lumber company burned down. The one I played in on the way home from grade school. (When we weren’t chased away. It was a great short cut home) Two years ago at Thanksgiving, an entire block of houses burned. My hometown has a lousy fire company.

I’ve been in ice rinks like that!

White money??

Well,one good th ing.They probably have $1.00 hot dogs.

Yep, an old school ballpark.

Charlie Brown may have been in re-run for decades now, but this one brings a tear … I love the game, too … Thanks for the memories … :`- )

Charles Schulz as a rule never drew adults. The one exception I recall was when he illustrated the cover of Art Linkletter’s book, “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” He showed Art Linkletter as a cartoon character. The proportions looked okay, so we know Schulz could draw grownups. But in the “Peanuts” cartoons we’d never see an adult. I do remember Lucy’s and Linus’ mother (“offscreen”) telling them to knock off the fighting (or something like that). In later printed comics we’d see one of the kids in school talking to the teacher and the teacher’s words were not shown; the dynamic was as though the kid was talking on the telephone and we couldn’t hear the phone receiver from our vantage point. In the animated cartoons, of course, we’d hear the honking horn representing the adult talking.