So, is that a dirt service alley behind Charlie Brown’s house, and the next block over? I see a utility pole and a trash can… That would have been still quite common at the time Schulz drew this strip.
I live in Machias, NY, and we have a similar situation. Our Lime Lake has two outlets – one drains to the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence River, and the other drains to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River. So not two oceans, but still weird. It’s because the town sits on the St. Lawrence continental divide.
The Ugly American was written by William Lederer. Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American. Easy to confuse – both Cold War novels set in southeast Asia. The Ugly American was a good guy – the The Quiet American was the prototypical spy.
Yeah, 250 hp is nothing to brag about, even back then