Hey kids! Do you remember the old daze, when Charles M. Schulz's PEANUTS comic strip was a must-read for all the gangs down at the sodium shop, and their mommies and workadaddies? Many found it on the leading edge of social commentary. Why, those kids thought and talked just like adults!
Ah yes. Then along came Vietnam and the worst of the hippy-dippy 60s. (The exact date on which the Golden Age of America turned to excrement was 9 February 1964. You can look it up.) Doonesbury appeared, then Bloom County, and suddenly PEANUTS was uncool. Not as bad as Family Circus, but still somehow tone-deaf to what was going on in the real America.
Still, there are many of us (I include myself) who look back on PEANUTS and the times it represented with affection. Life was simpler and better then. If you are one of those who yearn for the good ole daze, and regret that you threw out your PEANUTS books, our dear sponsor has just put a couple of dozen in his online store. Click here to have a look.
The books are used, in good shape, and ridiculously cheap. If you decide to buy, tell `em Walt sent ya!
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