Postcard - Hood Canal, Washington

"Hood Canal Floating Bridge. An outstanding engineering achievement of Washington State's Department of Highway's connecting Kitsap Peninsula and Olympic Peninsula. The bridge is 20 feet above the water and 7,131 feet long. It cost $26,630,000."

This has to be pre-1977, since the Dept. of Highways changed to the Dept. of Transportation in that year. The west half of this bridge sank during a storm in 1979.

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Montesano, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes - The Cincinnati Kid

"Gets down to what its all about, doesn't it? Making the wrong move at the right time."

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Morty Comix # 2534

Morty Comix # 2534 was placed under a counter at a state building for various natural resources agencies in Olympia, Washington.

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Postcard - Friday Harbor, Washington

"Ferry Boat at Friday Harbor. The Ferry Boat is the principal means of transportation to and among the San Juan Islands. The incomparable beauty is apparent to all who make the trip by ferry. Friday Harbor is the county seat of San Juan County, which includes all islands west of Rosario Strait. For additional information, write Department of Commerce and Economic Development, Olympia, Washington. Albert D. Rosellini, Governor."

Gov. Rosellini served from 1957-1965, which should help narrow the date here. This postcard was printed by Deers Press but was "not for sale," apparently distributed free by DCED.

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Charlie and Dreamer

Favorite Movie Quotes: Road to Perdition

"There are only murderers in this room. Michael, open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee-- none of us will see Heaven."

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Succulent Roast Beef and

Creamy Mashed Potatoes with

Rich Beef Gravy

OK, so it looks slightly different than the meal on the package after it has been nuked. Well, actually it doesn't even look close. In fact, it is rather repulsive in appearance. But it does taste good.

Morty Comix # 2533

OK, so I check to see if Morty Comix # 2527 is where I left it. Sometimes these Morty Comix sit for months before anyone finds them. The spot is at a phone booth in a gas station/minimart in Tumwater, Washington. Actually various places on this retail space have served as a depository for Morty Comix for awhile. I think I have left at least half a dozen in this general vicinity in the last year or so.

But wait, I see an interloper.

What should I find at the place where I left Morty Comix # 2527 but a Jack T. Chick weirdo minicomic! This one is called The Contract! and it is the second Chick publication I have found on this retail space this week. How deliciously bizarre.

So is this how the game is played? Two anonymous comix droppers in a turf war? One Obscuro the other Fanatically Religious? Then so be it. I accept the challenge with a sense of fun. It so happens I like Chick publications (for reasons the publisher doesn't intend, I'm sure) and send all I find to the Washington State University Comix Collection.

Morty Comix # 2533 has taken the game up a notch as I replaced the Chick comic with my own work at the phone booth the next morning. Perhaps this is just a brief conflict. Or perhaps not.

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"Hot Dogs! CORN ON THE BARBIE!"

Residue from last summer/fall flat on the ground

Tumwater, Washington

Billy Fugate 1954-2013

http://themoreheadnews.com/obituarieslanding/x503851768/William-Joseph-Billy-Fugate

Billy's profile can be found in the 2nd volume of the Newave Comics Survey.

Postcard - Everett, Washington

"Boeing Company, World's Largest Building, Everett, Washington. Nestled in the shadows of magnificent Mt. Baker and the Cascade Mountains is this 205,000,000 cu. ft. (volume) assembly building for the BOEING 747 -- World's Largest Commercial Jet Liner. It is 115 ft. high (ten stories), covers 42.8 acres under one roof and measures more than 1/4 mile in either direction. Each door shown in front wall is 87 ft. x 300 ft. -- nearly half the surface of a city block."

From 1979.

Everett native and presidential candidate Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, who served as a powerful U.S. Senator had a reputation as a Vietnam War hawk but was liberal on social issues. Locally we called him "The Senator from Boeing." 

Morty Comix # 2532

Morty Comix # 2532 was drawn on a piece of cardboard that had once been part of a container for a cat scratching pad. It was deposited in yet another abandoned telephone booth.

Tumwater, Washington.

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Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes - Last Orders

"Where's the luck, Amy? It's all down to luck."

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Heart Trouble?

When I was pumping gas this morning I looked up and spied this soggy Jack T. Chick publication waiting for me. What a thrill! I used to find these little guys all over the place in the 1970s, but these days they are far and few between.

Although I consider these little comics to be absolutely paranoid and insane, I do enjoy reading them. And I especially like the happy way I feel when I discover one. I am sure the way they are distributed was a big influence on my current method of releasing Morty Comix on the world.

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A Bad Apple in the Mac Store

Das Kapital Mall, Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Ellensburg, Washington

"Ellensburg, Washington. Aerial view of the 'Rodeo City' and Central Washington State College."

Definitely pre-1977.

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Morty Comix # 2531

Morty Comix # 2531 was placed behind a No Smoking sign in the commons area of a housing complex in McCleary, Washington

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Strike a Post

Das Kapital Mall, Olympia, Washington

Is it

A: A typo

B: A clever pun

C: Some kind of online lingo I have not caught up to yet since I am an old hermit and am not part of the Facebook universe

Favorite Movie Quotes: How the West Was Won

Mountain Man (Henry Fonda) hears a train whistle:

"That blamed whistle is like the crack of doom for all that's natural."

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Postcard - Ellensburg, Washington

"Bird's-eye view of the world famous 'Rodeo City'."

1970s?

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Morty Comix # 2530

 The distribution of Morty Comix # 2530 needs some explaining.

So I'm watching this super-epic film from 1962 called How the West Was Won. I have a Random House book that was released with the movie. Picked this monograph up long ago at some sale.

As I was viewing this Space Age celebration of Manifest Destiny (the movie ends with freeway traffic and urban sprawl portrayed as a good thing), I told myself I would send the next Morty Comix to the first city uttered by any character in the story.
 

And that city turned out to be Pittsburgh. Jimmy Stewart, in the role Linus Rawlings, Mountain Man, utters, "I kinda itch to get to Pittsburgh. I ain't seen a city for a long time. I aim to whoop it up a little."

Pittsburgh. Home to the amazing Wayno. A city that has been showing the art of Maximum Traffic. and a hop and schlep from the home of one of my favorite artists of the Newave Comix era, Mike Hill.

I am not a big fan of Stewart, but there have been a few movies where I could tolerate him. The Shootist, Shenandoah, Rope. I think I like him in those since he wasn't playing his normal Jimmy Stewart character. The guy could act if the studios gave him a chance.

Since his given name was James I sought out James Street in Pittsburgh. And once again Google's street view assisted me in finding a good home for a Morty Comix. Since they produce a product using more creativity than most, I selected a trophy store as the next random art recipient.

I have a lot of ancestors on both sides who lived in, are buried in, passed through the colony/state of Pennsylvania on their generational trek out here to the West Coast. One of my ancestors was supposedly converted to the Quaker faith by Penn himself. His grandson, another forefather of mine, ran off and wed a Shawnee woman, and became a frontiersman in Virginia. So the Quaker strain in my family was short-lived.
 

Off to the Keystone State for you, little one. I've been to Philadelphia but one day I'd love to visit Pittsburgh.