In the Spain, in the Caribbean and in most Spanish-speaking nations with an access to the sea (sorry Paraguay and Bolivia) octopus is a delicacy. Octopus in its own ink is a prime dish in various forms: in the North Yucatan coas is served with a shrimp and rice combination as a side, and don’t get me started on fried calamari (yum!).
Ten cents equaled one dollar today and there was plenty to buy for a dime. According to the strip, a dime would buy you an Ice-Cream Soda, a Madeline cost 3 pennies at the bakery and don’t forget the ancestors of today’s dollar stores were known as five and dimes. There was even a fancier one: Kress, which basically was a department store which sold goods at 5, 10 and 25 cents, when it opened in the 1900s. By the 1920s though, a few goods may have gone to 50 cents.
I had tropical fish for many years. Then in my teens we got our first dog and have preferred dogs ever since. I like a pet I can hug and in exchange get a wet kiss.
In the old days of animation (before Snow White), Fleisher was Disney’s archrival. As a matter of fact the Fleisher brothers invented the rotoscope and experimented in their first long-term cartoon series (silent) “Out of the Inkwell” which included a mix of live action with animated action. Betty Boop came in later as a replacement, and the original Popeye series later came in the late 30s and replaced Betty Boop.
I like to read now and then classic comics. Among them the original Blondie; from before their weeding, when they were dating. Dagwood’s millionaire parents opposed a wedding to “nobody” Blondie and by the way Dagwood’s high society mother would use the phrase “poo-poo” (like Floof) to dismiss something as nonsense.
I think it has been proven trickledown economics work on the short run but not on the long run…. it’s been forty years and were still waiting for the money to trickledown to our pockets.
It would have smelled very fishy