Monday, July 13, 2026

The Passing Scene – July 1966

Let's start the week off with a few chuckles, courtesy of our pal Gene Patrick and his The Passing Scene comic strip. He was in his second year of producing the panel at this point, and it was appearing once a week on Saturday.

The July 2, 1966 strip offers a nice panoramic illustration of the upcoming holiday.

The July 9, 1966 comic notes that Lou Kepler (the Journal's Women's Editor) and the Lorain High School Marching Band were both in New York City at that time.
July 4, 1966
July 7, 1966
The July 16th strip makes light of a car theft that occurred that week. A note left at the scene of the crime indicated that none other than the Caped Crusader and Robin the Boy Wonder were responsible.
The July 23rd strip notes that the Wellington Police Chief was again being permitted to publish his popular newspaper column in the Wellington Enterprise.
And the July 30, 1966 panel includes a caricature of Elyria Mayor Reichlin for the second week in a row.
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  1. -Alan D HopewellJuly 13, 2026 at 11:18 AM

    I can remember reading all of these as a child, when we got the Journal every day.
    So many of the kids I went to school with also read the paper, sometimes the P.D. or the Press as well, read their parent's weekly magazines (We got LIFE, LOOK, and TIME), and watched the local and national news, plus programs and documentaries about current events, back when news was actually news, and not opinion/propaganda.

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  2. Don HiltonJuly 13, 2026 at 11:20 AM

    Oh, how I miss the Police Blotters of the various, now vanished, local papers. I used to read it aloud to my children, not only to illustrate the stoopidity of local evil-doers, but to encourage them to apply their brains were they to enter a life of crime.

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