Reusing Pictures or getting more milage

 My mama told me not to be wasteful, reuse things: Recycling my pictures: St. Johns River, birds on a rail, in Jacksonville, Florida.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD Magazine's #26. THE TODAY SHOW back then

 THE TODAY SHOW has been around since I was in high school.  I remember J. Fred Muggs well.  Story by editor  Harvey Kurtzman, art by Atlanta's own, Jack Davis.

Paul Krassner and THE REALIST

 Paul Krassner (1932-2019) R.I.P. I cannot say enough about how bold he was for our freedoms. He was the editor and publisher of THE REALIST Magazine, which tested our freedom of press and speech in every issue. In his editorial ramblings he managed to mentioned he was a child prodigy that played a violin solo Carnegie Hall at a young age, about 5 or 6 I think. His profound wit was up there with Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, and Lenny Bruce.

Book Report: FRONTLINE COMBAT Comics in Kendal

 

Book (comicbook) Report FRONTLINE COMBAT.  Before MAD Comicbook/Magazine existed at EC Comics existed they had a big selection of Horror and Science-Fi Comics.  Then writer/artist/editor Harvey Kurtzman came along.  He is credited for writing and editing most of EC’s two new War comics FRONTLINE COMBAT and TWO-FISTED TALES.

Harvey Kurtzman has been dead over a quarter century.   Now, I suppose “the best of” FRONTLINE COMBAT is in digital Kendal form.  FRONTLINE COMBAT Kendall covers all kinds of war,  WWI aerial dogfights, pirates, Civil War, Indians, Roman times, modern airplane fights, and on and on.  The details were well researched.  Kurtzman had an assistant who did the research.  He even went down in a submarine.  Kurtzman also verified Sherman’s quote, “War is Hell.”  The American soldier did not always win, and some were natural bullies.  I counted stories, one Forward, and one Introduction.    One included comic was a special on the Air Force, which was all good,  like a show off of what we have.

The artists in this Kendal is George Evans,  Alex Tooth, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, John Severin*, and Jack Kubrt.  It is interesting that John Severin and Will Elder worked on most of their stories as a team, but not one Elder and Severin was included.

 

This was before MAD was created, these war comics took a lot of research and then Kurtzman created MAD and he is more remembered for MAD than he is of the War comics.

 

 

Terracotta Guard and Me

 

Have your heard the Joel Chandler Harris’s story about Uncle Remus ‘s story about Ber’ Rabbit and “The Tar Baby”? Well, I had a very similar experience when a the High Museum when I asked a Chinese Terracotta Guard a question.

Covered Bridge in Cobb County Destroyed in the 1960s

 Marie's Postcard Collection. Speaking of shopping centers and other things in Cobb County that was here then but not now, here is Sope's Creek Covered Bridge. It was near to a paper mill on the creek that General Sherman arrested the women workers as traitors and sent them up north to "fend" for themselves. The postcard says the creek and bridge was named after local Indian Chief Sope. I didn't know that.

The card goes on to say the bridge was built about 1870 (I didn't know that either). The card also says the nails were wooden pegs... another thing I did not know. See how educational reading a postcard can be?
It is not on the card but it was destroyed in 1963, I knew that one.  A next door neighbor one year younger than i, Carol Joe Clayton, and I grew up togethers, from toddlers to adulthood.  Carol Joe and an oncoming truck had a head-on collision at night and the bridge was destroyed and so was my lifetime buddy.  I was in the Navy then.

 

Marie's Postcards: Chattanooga, Fountain Square

 Marie Postcard Collection: This is Fountain Square, Chattanooga. On the back it says Junction of Georgia Avenue and Lookout Streets showing Fireman's Memorial Fountain and Cannons captured by the U.S. Troops at Santiago de Cuba by U.S. Troops.

Cannons captured by the U.S. Troops at Santiago de Cuba by U.S. Troops?

It seems to me with all the Civil War and early train relics lying around Chattanooga it would more fittingly as a memorial park to have something of Chattanooga's past - hey! Let's not forget that in Chattanooga was where the 'Trail of Tears' Native Americans was first herded together to cross the Tennessee River on Ross's Ferry (Ross was a Native American also).