Morty Comix # 2624

Morty Comix # 2624 was slipped into the menu of an Asian restaurant in Tumwater, Washington as my daughter Rose rolled her eyes and shook her head sadly.

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McCleary, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Man Who Knew Too Little

"What, do you torture everybody like this, or just Americans? Look, Mr. Shakespeare, yes, yes, I want to bribe you. Is the Prime Minister there? I'll bribe him. I'll bribe anybody who will talk to me. You invented the damn language, talk to me! No wonder you people lost the Empire! And you know what? Scotland's next!"

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Recently uncovered business sign dating back to the early 1950s in Tumwater, Washington. The "FL" was for Fleetwood, which was the inspiration for the musical group of the same name (The Fleetwoods).

Postcard - Los Angeles, California

"Broadway, Los Angeles, California"

1930s?

Notice the United Artists sign, advertising a major film company that no longer exists thanks to Michael Cimino and Heaven's Gate

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Professional Stand Behinders

Can I please have a job where I am a professional stand behinder? Where all I have to do is stand behind someone who is a true BS artist and I clasp my hands over my genital region while wearing a grave expression on my face? I think I am equal to this task if the pay was right.

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Detail of James Abbott mural on waferboard

An unusual texture and amazingly well-preserved after being two decades outside

Elma, Washington

Morty Comix # 2623

Morty Comix # 2623 was placed on the general bulletin board of the food co-op on the Westside of Olympia, Washington. I can recall this same building being a more capitalist store back in the 1970s where I used to buy beer.

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James Abbott mural, Elma, Washington

An unusual one, painted on waferboard

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Lost Boys

"Look at your reflection in the mirror. You're a creature of the night, Michael. Just like out of a comic book. You're a vampire, Michael. My own brother, a shit-sucking vampire! Well, you wait 'til Mom finds out, buddy!"

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Sculpture in Tom's yard

Butler, Pennsylvania

Postcard - Long Beach, California

"The beautiful Municipal Auditorium in the sparkling setting of the blue lagoon and the spectacular Rainbow Pier forms a vivid nucleus for California's fifth largest city, Long Beach. The forest of oil derricks of Signal Hill is in the background."

1930s?

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The Door to Every Thing is in Pittsburgh

But you need a key card to open it, sorry

The Millard Fillmore Song

Oh I love Millard Fillmore

He’s on the ball

He’s got the scoop

Oh I love Millard Fillmore

He’s so perfect

He doesn’t poop.

He’s got two eyes, a nose and a mouth

He bent over backwards to appease the South

Oh I love Millard Fillmore

Even though he was two inches shorter than Chester Alan Arthur

 

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Pittsburgh

Postcard - Long Beach, California

"Sheltering and surrounding Municipal Auditorium is Rainbow Pier, semi-circular and 3,800 feet in length. The pier can accommodate, without crowding, 75,000 persons."

1930s?

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Pittsburgh

Postcard - Long Beach, California

"Four miles of delightful bathing along the lagoon, enclosed by Recreation Park, is a paradise for those who prefer to swim in quiet waters. Then there are eight miles of gently slopping sand along the ocean beach, and the open sea for surf swimming, surf boarding and the thrilling sport of 'body surfing.'"

1930s?

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"Help Bobo Escape From Mr. Death!"

Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2622

Morty Comix # 2622 was placed inside the secret chambers of a menu at an Italian restaurant in Olympia, Washington

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Pittsburgh

Postcard - Los Angeles, California

"Hollywood, California. Spectacular night view of Hollywood taken from Hollywood Hills, In the right foreground is one of the famous Hollywood Hills landmarks."

1960s?

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Butler, Pennsylvania

Morty Comix # 2621

Morty Comix # 2621 was placed in an empty display case attached to a gas pump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Residents of the western portion of the Keystone State can rest easy knowing this was the last Morty Comix I placed in a furtive manner in their part of the world (which I fell in love with, by the way). There is one more Pennsylvania-distributed Morty Comix to come, but it was proudly drawn in the open.

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A very large mask by Buzz Buzzizyk on display in a private home, Butler, Pennsylvania

Postcard - Berkeley, California

"Stadium, University of California Berkeley"

1920s-1940s

Apparently the stadium was built directly over a big earthquake fault. My cousins always warned me never to sit on the west side of the stadium if I ever went there for a game because I could wind up in the Pacific Ocean. 

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Pittsburgh

Morty Comix # 2620

Morty Comix # 2620 was drawn on the reverse side of a business card and presented to Tom Rehm in Butler, Pennsylvania. Here he is pictured expressing his joy by wrapping his cranium in a "freaked out in a moon age daydream" poster.

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Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh