Saturday Comic

Our comic strip for today comes from Close to Home, by John McPherson.

It appeared on October 11 of this year.

Close to Home, October 11, 2014

 

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Colorful Characters — Dale Story

We are all aware of Abebe Bikila, who won the 1960 Olympic Marathon running barefoot. And I’ve introduced you to Bruce Tulloh, who won a 6-miler at the British games in 1962 barefoot, and the gold running the 5000m the at the European Championships.

Here is another barefoot winner from the 1960s.

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Business Owners and Barefoot Insurance

A while back I wrote about Business Owners and “Trust”, looking at a lot of negligence lawsuits and discussing a user comment regarding the cost and time of a possible lawsuit from a barefoot injury (while completely ignoring possible lawsuits from all sorts of other footwear injuries).

A small-business owner and friend has pointed out to me that it is the insurance companies who spend the time and money. Here’s what he told me.

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Saturday Comic

This week we spent some time looking at hippies and how they influenced the animus against bare feet. Today’s comic emphasizes that. It’s from a strip called Carnival by Dick Turner.

The cartoon appeared on November 21, 1971.

Carnival, November 21, 1971

 

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Barefoot Waitresses

Yesterday we found out about the barefoot waitress in Reserve, NM back in the 1960s.

But are there more?

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More from Albuquerque

In one of the comments to When NSNSNS Came to Albuquerque, it was asked whether the anti-barefoot attitude of the restaurants were already established before the NSNSNS signs appeared.

We can answer that.

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