Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 01, 2022

In 1951 a quarter bought me the ticket: newsreel, short, cartoon, movie ( often inappropriate for kids, I once Isaw “Lost Weekend”) a coke and a box of candy. Great Saturday.

even then people were underestimating the grey hairs among us!

Fifteen cents for two burgers? That was long ago.

Don’t blame CB, you asked what he was thinking about. There will come a time when the only answer you will get to that question is, “Nothing.”

TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

“You heard the pig—Let’s go, Charles.”

Maybe Chuck’s audience is smarter than he thought she was.

That was a lovely story, Charlie Brown. In NYC in the ‘60s, 50¢ would get me into a wonderful, cool, air-conditioned theater to get away from the summer heat for as long as I cared to sit there. (I was born a little too late to remember the 25¢ price) You could luxuriate there in the red velvet chairs and wait for the lights to go down and that big red curtain to go up, and watch that wonderful march of cartoon, newsreel, short subject, and main feature parade past, and no matter where you came in, if you wanted you could stay and catch it all again. I hated it when my mom and I were late to a film, but there was comfort in knowing you could catch whatever you missed the next time around. It was especially exciting if the movie you came to see was shot in Cinerama or Cinemascope; after the short subject, they would draw back the side covers on the screen and you’d be sitting there in front of this massive curved expanse of whiteness that almost enveloped you if you were close enough. That’s how I first experienced “Lawrence of Arabia,” and it fairly blew me away.

PP this kind of story is a vignette.

Nostalgia.

Fifteen cents? Boy, this strip is old.

If burgers still cost that much, I would have a whole sack of them.

Not only that but Charlie’s grandfather was also pretty smart. By making the son run up to the hamburger shop that means not only would the boy get exercise but it also means that the babysitting grandma wouldn’t have to cook supper or wash dishes for the boy!

Patty doesn’t get the story, but it’s a good one. If she listened, there’d be lots of interesting facts therein. I guess the story just wasn’t Patty’s style. But, buried in all the details is a love story, and a story of women’s intelligence, too.

It’s a delightful story. I enjoyed hearing it.

$.15 in 1925=$2.50 today

Haircut, 25 cents. Necco wafers , 5 cents if I was a good boy during the week.

It’s the best kind of story, Patty. It’s the the best kind.

We all realize that “old” people are treated like their good days are past. That is one reason why all we see is how to look younger. Fashion, food and pills, hair dye, cosmetics, surgery. No one wants to be treated as if they are not all there. My pet peeve….don’t call me “DEAR”. EVER!

15 cents for 2 burgers?? Sheesh nowadays that’s just the sales tax for a piece of gum. Curse you inflation!!!!!

This was way before my time. It looks like if you switched cents for dollars it would be accurate for today. Five bucks per burger and 15 bucks per movie ticket, yeah that’s about right.

You asked, Miss Reichardt, you received. Way to make Chuck open his mind.

The better question is, why does he remember so many details about that story?

I agree. What kind?….

It’s a great story, and it reminds me of something my mom always used to say: “we get too soon old and too late smart.” That didn’t apply to my mom, however; she was always one smart cookie.

I fell for it to. Read all those words Charlie was saying and up to the point in last panel when Patty says… `What kind of story is that…`

I, for one, absolutely love that story.

30 cents for a burger in 1969.

He gave him 15 cents and gave him 30 cents. So he really gave him 45 cents.

What kind of story is that? The kind everybody likes

A better one than we have today.

it is a story of the generations Peppermint.

Is that so? Well, it looks like I missed a lot of movies!

Good old Peppermint Patty, clueless as always. I wonder if Sparky’s cousin Patricia Swanson, was the same way?

The part about his grandmother is true. Schulz did do that, and he also realised later that she was smarter than he thought when he was a kid.

That’s gotta be the most words I’ve seen in a Peanuts strip

Just a reminder of how much the dollar used to be worth. Wish those days were here again.

That was a wonderful sweet story about the olden days. Before even MY time!