Vintage Thingie Thursday

When I was 12 or 13 years old (a long time ago!), I was in love with “Peanuts”. I even wrote to Charles Schultz, no answer, but I wrote . We lived in Chicago when I was little and there were the two big newspapers, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times. My Dad was a Sun Times man, he always said it was in an easier format to read. Now, mind you, Peanuts was in the Chicago Tribune. I had an Uncle who would save the papers for me so I could read the comic strip. He would come over every Sunday bring the paper and get us 5 kids, 2 dozen Good Humor bars from the ice cream truck. He never married and we were his family, I loved him dearly. Well, when I was in 7th grade we moved to a suburb of Chicago, St. Charles (where I am also raising my family) this wonderful, kind man, would cut the strip out every day, make it into a booklet and mail it to me. The other fun part was every two weeks or so one of the strips would be in color, I think it was on Wednesday. I still have these and will never part with them. He also got me my Snoopy Flying Ace music box that plays “over there”. Yes, it still works. My youngest daughter loves Peanuts too!! Check out the cost of Pepsi then! Thanks Leo xoxox