No, back then people were poor. They sleep in same bed stay warm. No neccessary touchie each other. Heating houses/apartments were expensive. This single strip was likely haven been written during Depression era. Problem is way they present the strip they keep jumping back beforth between the “decades”. Strip ran for very long time. Include with Mutt having been married later in strip’s run. This is clearly before his married man days.
In the late 40s, we didn’t know anyone who had electric refrigerators yet. Nearly everyone still had an ice box. Our ice was delivered by a man in a horse-drawn buggy. The ice man’s daughter sometimes baby-sat my sister and me. To this day, I don’t drink anything with ice IN it. To me - ice was something you put in the back of the ice box next to the butter, milk, eggs, etc. to keep it cold.
One set of grandparents had 11 children and the other set of grandparents had 10 children. During the Depression, all of the boys slept in one bed together and all of the girls slept in one bed together. In my Dad’s family, seven boys slept in one bed together. The four girls were lucky - there were only four of them in one big whole bed. In my mother’s family, the seven boys all slept together in one bed and my mother and her two sisters had one whole big bed all to themselves!
That is just the way that things were done in those days!
Since this was during the time of ice boxes and horse-drawn ice wagons, I would put it somewhere between the 20s and late 40s. I don’t think it would have been into the early 50s. Where I lived, you still saw horse-drawn wagons in the street during the 50s - but most large cities were starting to force horse traffic off of the road during the 50s. Mutt and Jeff appear to be living in a large city. So I am guessing that they quit seeing horse-drawn wagons in the street by the early or mid-50s.
Mutt had a wife and son before he ever met Jeff (back when the strip was called “A. Mutt”), so the question must be asked yet again: Why is Mutt sharing a bed with Jeff instead of with his own wife?
Llewellenbruce over 14 years ago
Why is Jeff sleeping with a married man?
JerryGorton over 14 years ago
I have wondered for 75 years why they sleep together sometimes and also chase women when they both have wives…Cartoon license I guess…
Colt9033 over 14 years ago
No, back then people were poor. They sleep in same bed stay warm. No neccessary touchie each other. Heating houses/apartments were expensive. This single strip was likely haven been written during Depression era. Problem is way they present the strip they keep jumping back beforth between the “decades”. Strip ran for very long time. Include with Mutt having been married later in strip’s run. This is clearly before his married man days.
SHAKENDOWN over 14 years ago
Mutt & Jeff ran from 1907-1982. Expanded details are available @ Wikipedia & Toonopedia.
tompkins07 over 14 years ago
guess you know what happens when someone yells “ice” these days-run for the border
DebJ4 over 14 years ago
In the late 40s, we didn’t know anyone who had electric refrigerators yet. Nearly everyone still had an ice box. Our ice was delivered by a man in a horse-drawn buggy. The ice man’s daughter sometimes baby-sat my sister and me. To this day, I don’t drink anything with ice IN it. To me - ice was something you put in the back of the ice box next to the butter, milk, eggs, etc. to keep it cold.
One set of grandparents had 11 children and the other set of grandparents had 10 children. During the Depression, all of the boys slept in one bed together and all of the girls slept in one bed together. In my Dad’s family, seven boys slept in one bed together. The four girls were lucky - there were only four of them in one big whole bed. In my mother’s family, the seven boys all slept together in one bed and my mother and her two sisters had one whole big bed all to themselves!
That is just the way that things were done in those days!
Since this was during the time of ice boxes and horse-drawn ice wagons, I would put it somewhere between the 20s and late 40s. I don’t think it would have been into the early 50s. Where I lived, you still saw horse-drawn wagons in the street during the 50s - but most large cities were starting to force horse traffic off of the road during the 50s. Mutt and Jeff appear to be living in a large city. So I am guessing that they quit seeing horse-drawn wagons in the street by the early or mid-50s.
Merry Christmas to all!
Deborah16 over 14 years ago
Merry Christmas everyone!! :)
craigwestlake over 14 years ago
We bought a monitor-top refridgerator during the 40s, this was in Ohio, I watched the iceman slowly fade away - the milkman took a little longer.
Sherlock Watson over 14 years ago
Mutt had a wife and son before he ever met Jeff (back when the strip was called “A. Mutt”), so the question must be asked yet again: Why is Mutt sharing a bed with Jeff instead of with his own wife?