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A Sunday morning circa 1964. I would fetch the Sunday paper so my father could read me the funnies. "Peanuts" and "Dennis the Menace" were my favorites. It is probably winter -- my "footy" pajamas would have been necessary in East Texas only in the coldest months. The house was built in 1957. Note the casement window crank and the Danish Modern headboard. I wish I still had my dad's Eames recliner and some of my mother's "mod" furniture. Polaroid scan. View full size.
You are so right. Norman Rockwell couldn't have imagined it in a better way. Inspiring for anyone who likes/loves to draw/paint.
What a great moment captured there. It's like a Norman Rockwell.
It could have been the Dallas Morning News. I think we only got the Sunday DMN. Our local paper, the Texarkana Gazette, was delivered every day, so the funny papers (we never called them comics) in the photo could have been the Gazette's as well.
I'm sure the photo was taken at the crack of dawn - to this day I sometimes meet the paper carrier in the driveway.
BTW - thanks for straightening out the wrinkle in the upper right corner, Dave.
Goober Pea
What paper would this have been, the Longview or Tyler paper? Or maybe the Dallas Morning News?
Note the wideness of the newspaper's broadsheet and the large format of the individual strips. Compare both of those to today's postage stamp-sized newspaper formats. T'was before the steep rise in newsprint prices that have all but brought publishing empires to their knees. My wife and I joke about how it won't be long before some publisher discovers you can print the day's news on toilet paper. Double the pleasure, double the fun!
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