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Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

All in all, they’ve been a lot of good days.

DancingBuffalo
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4 hours ago

I know that feeling…

voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
18 hours ago

I know it’s nit picking but the artist has the Coke machine reversed … the door for the drinks was on the left side.

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voxx
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Reply to  nighthawks
5 hours ago

We used to sell antiques back when they were very popular in the early 2000s. I mostly sold coolers rather than distributors as they were easier to sell and cheaper. The Holy Grail of Coke distributors was the very narrow one with a push down handle.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  voxx
17 hours ago

I’m sure I’ve seen the door on the right side. What would you poor northpaws have done if the door was on the wrong side?

voxx
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Reply to  JP Steve
5 hours ago

Yes but not that model.
Google image search is your friend.
(late 50s Coke machines)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

I’m pretty sure it’s AI.

It’s available from different websites with a blue car or a red one, blue sky or sunset, Roll Tide or Dot’s Diner… must be a stock scene that lets you change details with prompts.

This particular one is available on a Facebook page by a fellow named Gary Webb… who says…

“Alabama crimson tide die hard fans
September 9, 2023
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I made this 4 years ago, hope you like it. The size can be 8×8″ or 10×10″ or 12×12″. This would make a great mouse pad, I don’t sell them but you can have one made by numerous companies. Just google custom-made mouse pads. Also makes a nice refrigerator magnet. I give my art away because I want people to enjoy having something free about their favorite team. ROLL TIDE ROLL.”

I’m sure he means he “made” it with an AI program… Cos people are requesting different things in the comments, like “Can you put my name on the diner?”

A woman is selling it on Etsy with a different make, green car… It says Dot’s Diner, the signs are different…. And she says it’s from an original watercolor. But she has to be lying!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Don’t look now, but her long hair is just soooo out of style. I don’t know what he sees in her.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 hours ago

Somebody we know?

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

Take me to the river.
Put me in the water.
—- Big Mouth Billy Bass

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 hours ago

It’s famed photographer Elliott Erwitt, who took, among other things, two great photos of dogs we saw here, that I said I’d once had on note cards.

But he was famous for a lot of other pictures, as well, like the one on the wall, which he titled “Cohiba Cigar, with Fish.” His work was in magazines as well as museums, and was also collected into many books.

Here, he’s at home in NYC in 2017, age 89, with his own dog.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
16 hours ago

Nope!

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 hours ago

Not with Pennywise!

DancingBuffalo
Reply to  nighthawks
4 hours ago

BEST laugh of the day!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

Retro art, apparently used as a poster and a postcard in 1997.
This copy is cut off at the bottom, where it says
Loop “L” Centennial … 1897-1997

A couple of websites say it’s an Arthur A Johnson Reprint Poster… I’m thinking they mean the center artwork… in fact, I think that’s his name in a tiny font, at lower left. I tried searching just that part but didn’t find a date. Looks like the late 1920s.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 hours ago

It’s OK – that’s Carrie.

Arfside
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Reply to  Tigressy
12 hours ago

Looks like she has a serious case of the crabs!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 hours ago

Sorry, we didn’t have time to dress…

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
12 hours ago

Small towns, and taking care of your neighbor.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

Small Town Fire Company – Stevan Dohanos, 1949, oil on canvas, for the S.E. Post.

The painting depicts the Center Square (Pennsylvania) Volunteer Fire Company responding to an alarm.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
15 hours ago

And why not?

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Greyhame
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Reply to  Arfside
6 hours ago

Local gal. Used to run from Carthage, MO down through the Ouachitas in the direction of Texarkana. She would sometimes have a farrier put on horseshoes backwards (on the horse) so the trackers wwoud go the wrong way.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

I’ve never seen a photo of her smiling!

I just googled it… It’s actually a photo of her posing at Wild Bill Hickock’s grave. An odd occasion for a happy picture.
But then, she was an unusual person.

She wrote a promotional autobiography in which she claimed to have been an Indian fighter with the army… The army denied it.

She wore men’s clothes but spent time as a prostitute, married 2 or 3 times and had several daughters. Maybe.

In fact, she claimed to have been married to Wild Billn for a while… some say it’s true, modern historians are less inclined to believe it. A woman showed up in the 1940s claiming to be their daughter, but as there was no DNA testing back then, you can find believers on both sides.

The funny thing to me is that she was portrayed in so many movies, plays and TV shows by cute, feminine women… Something she was absolutely not

Who can forget this 1953 movie? The reruns were staple of 60s TV and this song an earworm for me since I was a kid..

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JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 hours ago

“Scuse me, just have to go take a cold shower…

Tigressy
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Reply to  JP Steve
12 hours ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
14 hours ago

A memorable

role for…
Teri Garr, as the ever enthusiastic Inga

in…
Young Frankenstein!

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Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 hours ago

The theme song is the ring tone on my cell phone. I’m compelled to answer!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
11 hours ago

“Spearfishing” by David Stowe… prizewinning photo of an Eastern great egret.

SusanSunshine
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15 hours ago

Franklin D. Basset… a fine leader of the hound pack. And that was a great New Deal he got on kibble, assuring that fewer puppies would go hungry.

He also signed the kibble security program into existence, giving at least a minimum supply of kibble to senior dogs, as long as they had contributed to the dog economy, by, you know, being good dogs and stuff.

( I admit, I don’t really know how that works.. I think they have to apply for a kibble security card, and not chew it up, which is difficult. So we still have to make sure to take good care of our senior dogs.)

Anyway… As ever, things have changed a bit between the panels.
Nine things.
After you find them, you can see what I found..

by looking right in HERE…
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Even if it’s not a holiday where you are, or you just don’t feel like celebrating this year…. I’m sure your July has a 4th.
Have a good one.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 hours ago

Eight so far. I’ll have another look later.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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12 hours ago

1937 Packard Motorhome.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
11 hours ago

I’d love to have it!

Greyhame
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
6 hours ago

Looks like a double-decker hearse.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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12 hours ago

Pallas’s Cat, for Caturday.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
12 hours ago

Pallas must leave the door open a lot, whether accidentally or on purpose.

His cats are all over the neighborhood.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
12 hours ago

Probably not spayed or neutered, either.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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12 hours ago

Female Northern Cardinal takes flight from the boardwalk.

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Tigressy
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9 hours ago

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Arfside
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Reply to  Tigressy
4 hours ago

Getting even.

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Arfside
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4 hours ago

Better watch from a distance.

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3 hours ago
Tigressy
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1 hour ago

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Tigressy
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 hour ago

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