Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for March 07, 2021

I did that regardin’ a Turkey Day Parade once!

“Chef Meowrice, found in the Floor Wax aisle of your favorite supermarket.”

Slim goes car shopping with Clovia, and explains that she’s got just enough in her budget to afford the incidentals, 51 years ago today in the Alley:

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Back in 1996-1997 there was a song by the Blackout All Stars called “I Like It (Like That)” used in a Burger King TV commercial.

hush, sydney

I am SO very glad to see Joel back!!!!! Even if it is with Chef Meowrice! :)

But…. where the hell is Joel’s pipe?!?!?! He seems naked without it.

I am hoping Jim has a new daily arc coming soon that features Joel.

Dumont TV – weren’t they big in the early ’50’s?

Scroll away Joel!

Hank throws Mister Jinx out on his ear, but it looks like all she did is make him mad!

BSR: March 4, 1945 – https://i.imgur.com/wIyYB6B.jpg

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This strip turns out to be an eerie precursor to an event that happened just five months later…

On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, while flying in thick fog. The accident caused the death of fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at $1 million (equivalent to about $14M today), although the building’s structural integrity was not compromised.

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At 9:40 a.m., the aircraft crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 78th and 80th floors, making an 18-by-20-foot hole in the building, into the offices of the War Relief Society and the National Catholic Welfare Council. One engine shot through the south side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block, dropping 900 feet and landing on the roof of a nearby building and causing a fire that destroyed a penthouse art studio. The other engine and part of the landing gear fell down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. The Empire State Building fire is the only significant fire at such a height to be brought under control by firefighters.

Before anyone talks about removing that rocket, Bob Wyer wants to know what the Army is going to do about his missing cow.

(Hipshot finds that while life may be cheap in the old west, it’s still a potential misdemeanor.)

ROS: August 21-25, 1960 – https://i.imgur.com/QfSUwsw.jpg

Even the not so subtle references to the Pep Boys and Chris Kenner can’t help that lot.

Updating my comics situation: I saw my Sunday paper and they wrecked that too.

Kept: B.C., Baby Blues, Doonesbury, Family Circus, Garfield, JumpStart, Peanuts, Pearls Before Swine, Pickles, Tundra, Zits

Dropped: Beetle Bailey, Blondie, Dennis the Menace, Foxtrot, Get Fuzzy, Hagar the Horrible, Lio, One Big Happy, Rex Morgan

Added: Argyle Sweater, Barney and Clyde, Bizarro, Bound and Gagged, Candorville, Close to Home, Cornered, Diamond Lil, Flying McCoys, The Middletons, Mike Du Jour, Mt. Pleasant, Reality Check, Rubes, Speed Bump, Wallace the Brave

Added back: Wizard of Id

Seems to me that Joel and Rufus are the only GA characters that never age. Or am I missing something..

I’m glad to see Mim and Tim out of the picture, but could their story be interrupted by anything worse than the mice? I just can’t win with this strip anymore.

Does anyone know when Rachel the maid left the Wallet’s home? I think that happend when Skeezix left for military school.