Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for February 08, 2012

WW2MarineVet—beat you here today. Were you in bed early Tuesday night? I live near Portland, Oregon—where do you live now? The date of today’s comic, by looking at the old style shoes—brings this to about 1928. Look for you on Tarzan, I’ve already opened the comment section there—Semper Fi.

The rendering of the customer reminds me a little of how Bud Fisher used to draw himself in a cameo in this strip although this was after his time. Do any longtime M&J fans know who the artist is? Ed Mack?

Maybe the need a shoe horn.

I don’t remember leather being rationed during WWII, but then I was a mere child. I do remember sugar being rationed – no Cracker Jacks, and people could only buy one six-pack of Cokes at a time. Gasoline was rationed, too. Doctors (who made house calls, believe it or not) got more gasoline than the avergage person.

and we farmers had “C” stckers on on car windshield, and could buy unlimited gasolene.

Ration coupons were from World War II.

We had them when I sailed off to the south Pacific—and I’m still here!

@AllThanks for the memories you brought back today. I was a “boomer”, 1952 vintage. I was remembering stories my grandfather and my mother would tell of the times of “meatless Tuesdays”, ration books and gas rationing. The best stories were from my grandfather and the moonshine business.

I heard about ration cards from my parents when I was overseas during WW2. Never saw one. They were no longer in use when I got back to the states in 1946.

Hello Scuttlebutt. You must be either Navy or Marine Corps to know that lingo.

Born in 1939, I was too young for WWII, but I still have some partial ration books in the family files. I do remember them telling about a near fight broke out when someone did some canning and used up all the month’s ration of sugar. There was another story of a police car found on blocks one morning, with an envelope on the ws wiper with a $100 bill in it and a note – you can buy tires but I can’t.A forgotten fact of WWII was the reduced speed limit – not to save gas but to save wear on tires.

Gas was rationed, but it was to save RUBBER which was imported and in short supply. People were only allowed 4 tires at a time.

I still have my ration stamps. They have my name and then the word “infant” as I was born in Nov. 1944.