How long has Gertie been in the cast? I’m a relatively recent returnee, with more long-term than short-term memory of GA (the local paper doesn’t carry it, but did years ago, and it took me awhile to find it online).
Come on guys, enjoy the chik flik. It’s a skill that will improve your relationships with the opposite sex. Enjoyment is a skill.
http://www.happinessclub.com/FairfieldCitizen/052301.htm
There is minimal storyline here. The Gertie & Earl relationship is just a framework for an attempt at witty banter.
As for continuity, where’s Walt? I thought he was on the porch, chaperoning. Also, when does Earl work at the diner? This supposedly is the lunch hour, which should be their busiest time of day.
Why Jim continues to have Walt around we’ll never know until he speaks of it in an interview. The Walt character by guess is now about 110 if he served in WWI in the navy as was referenced in very early GA strips. People have lived to be 114 in real life.
So - Phyllis passing is just a recent occurrence? The Rocky Mountain News quit carrying Gasoline Alley at least 30 - maybe more like 35 or 40 years ago - so I keep wondering where everyone has gone. I remember Phyllis and Nina. I remember when Clovia was born. I have an aunt who lived to be 99. She never smoked or imbibed alcoholic beverages. She DID have 9 children. Her husband and two of my cousins were killed some time during the 50’s when a drunk driver hit their car on their way home from church. So my aunt was a widow for about 49 years before she passed away. My aunt and uncle were farmers and my uncle and cousins were killed just prior to harvest (in Kansas). While my aunt was laid up in the hospital, she worried about how she would be able to get that crop harvested with her husband and two children dead and being laid up in the hospital herself with the rest of the children who were in the car with them that day. When she got out of the hospital, she was amazed when she learned that all of her neighbors had got together, took their harvesting equipment over to her fields and harvested the crops for her. Then they trucked it all in to town, sold the crop for her and had all of the money which the crop brought in - ready and waiting for her when she got out of the hospital. Once upon a time, occurrences like that frequently made it into the Gasoline Alley strip. I’m not sure what inspires the strip writers these days. However, I think the strip writers are missing a bet when they do not consider how much mileage they could get out of Walt remembering times past - and reprinting some of those strips from days gone by.
What a great story so far,thank you for reminding me of dancing with a friend for many a year,near 2 decades. The Stan West.com band was the main attraction,relly great blues. Though no longer dancing we are still alive! Thank you God.
I have to sign off gocomics because if a comment or previous Dick Tracy is clicked it does not return to the sequence made. Fix this guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Gertie and Earl weren’t there in the strip’s early days, but Slim, and Clovia, and even Skeezix were newcomers to the strip at one time. As long as it’s entertaining, I’ll drop in every day, no matter who the featured characters are.
jabo says:
I have to sign off gocomics because if a comment or previous Dick Tracy is clicked it does not return to the sequence made. Fix this guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This isnt an error Jabo, it’s how goComics tries to get you to pay for the comics. If you’re not PRO commenting will ‘bump’ you off of your regular line up and into the bigger alphabetically order line up. Just open your next comic in a new window before you comment on the current one, that should keep you going.
@ Deborah Reyes;
I really enjoyed the story about your Aunt, very nice. You’re right, it’d be nice to see a story like that. I know that they’re still out there, even today. During the Depression Hollywood made movies out of stories like that to help people feel better. We could certainly use something like that today.
pbarnrob over 15 years ago
OOPS! Was that why? (Bu-dum-bum!)
axe-grinder over 15 years ago
How long has Gertie been in the cast? I’m a relatively recent returnee, with more long-term than short-term memory of GA (the local paper doesn’t carry it, but did years ago, and it took me awhile to find it online).
tcambeul over 15 years ago
axe-grinder, tooooo looong!!!
stuart over 15 years ago
Come on guys, enjoy the chik flik. It’s a skill that will improve your relationships with the opposite sex. Enjoyment is a skill. http://www.happinessclub.com/FairfieldCitizen/052301.htm
namenamename over 15 years ago
Yep, I read next week’s strips there. It doesn’t move at all. Matter of fact, Thursday and Friday strips are exactly alike!
alondra over 15 years ago
I take it Gertie doesn’t want to go dancing. Got any other ideas for a date Earl?
Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago
pardon me while I scream with impatience at pace of this story line: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! .. … …. thankyou
436rge over 15 years ago
axe grinder et al, Gertie has been a character in the strip since 2005 about the time after Walt’s wife Phyllis died.
OldManMountain over 15 years ago
There is minimal storyline here. The Gertie & Earl relationship is just a framework for an attempt at witty banter.
As for continuity, where’s Walt? I thought he was on the porch, chaperoning. Also, when does Earl work at the diner? This supposedly is the lunch hour, which should be their busiest time of day.
436rge over 15 years ago
Why Jim continues to have Walt around we’ll never know until he speaks of it in an interview. The Walt character by guess is now about 110 if he served in WWI in the navy as was referenced in very early GA strips. People have lived to be 114 in real life.
DebJ4 over 15 years ago
So - Phyllis passing is just a recent occurrence? The Rocky Mountain News quit carrying Gasoline Alley at least 30 - maybe more like 35 or 40 years ago - so I keep wondering where everyone has gone. I remember Phyllis and Nina. I remember when Clovia was born. I have an aunt who lived to be 99. She never smoked or imbibed alcoholic beverages. She DID have 9 children. Her husband and two of my cousins were killed some time during the 50’s when a drunk driver hit their car on their way home from church. So my aunt was a widow for about 49 years before she passed away. My aunt and uncle were farmers and my uncle and cousins were killed just prior to harvest (in Kansas). While my aunt was laid up in the hospital, she worried about how she would be able to get that crop harvested with her husband and two children dead and being laid up in the hospital herself with the rest of the children who were in the car with them that day. When she got out of the hospital, she was amazed when she learned that all of her neighbors had got together, took their harvesting equipment over to her fields and harvested the crops for her. Then they trucked it all in to town, sold the crop for her and had all of the money which the crop brought in - ready and waiting for her when she got out of the hospital. Once upon a time, occurrences like that frequently made it into the Gasoline Alley strip. I’m not sure what inspires the strip writers these days. However, I think the strip writers are missing a bet when they do not consider how much mileage they could get out of Walt remembering times past - and reprinting some of those strips from days gone by.
jabo over 15 years ago
What a great story so far,thank you for reminding me of dancing with a friend for many a year,near 2 decades. The Stan West.com band was the main attraction,relly great blues. Though no longer dancing we are still alive! Thank you God.
jabo over 15 years ago
I have to sign off gocomics because if a comment or previous Dick Tracy is clicked it does not return to the sequence made. Fix this guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stringmusicianer over 15 years ago
These are Gasoline Alley characters too, and I am enjoying them. New things can be good too, IMHO.
axe-grinder over 15 years ago
Yes, Gertie and Earl weren’t there in the strip’s early days, but Slim, and Clovia, and even Skeezix were newcomers to the strip at one time. As long as it’s entertaining, I’ll drop in every day, no matter who the featured characters are.
Durak Premium Member over 15 years ago
jabo says: I have to sign off gocomics because if a comment or previous Dick Tracy is clicked it does not return to the sequence made. Fix this guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — This isnt an error Jabo, it’s how goComics tries to get you to pay for the comics. If you’re not PRO commenting will ‘bump’ you off of your regular line up and into the bigger alphabetically order line up. Just open your next comic in a new window before you comment on the current one, that should keep you going.
Durak Premium Member over 15 years ago
@ Deborah Reyes; I really enjoyed the story about your Aunt, very nice. You’re right, it’d be nice to see a story like that. I know that they’re still out there, even today. During the Depression Hollywood made movies out of stories like that to help people feel better. We could certainly use something like that today.