re: Pictures from days gone by....

Jim Thorpe arm-wrestling Ted Williams

Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin (Milne)

57 Chrysler Imperial

Getting cooled air piped into the car while enjoying a meal at a drive-in restaurant. Houston, 1957

1977 - the year before the Superman movie started the superhero revival

Had no clue what this was supposed to be. But thanks to the google machine:

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[Gene] Ahern's The Squirrel Cage (1936–53) featured a bearded character known as The Little Hitchhiker, who became notorious for his frequent expression, "Nov shmoz ka pop?", which he uttered while thumbing for a ride. Some sources say that the phrase is Russian for "Going my way?", others say that the phrase is complete nonsense. The character was the acknowledged inspiration for Robert Crumb's Mr. Natural.

The Squirrel Cage was collected into a book by publisher Ken Pierce. It was popular enough that it was used as nose art on at least two US bomber aircraft during the Second World War, a B-17G with 487th Bomb Group and a B-24 that served with the 466th, 93rd, and 446th Bomber Groups

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1958