Beetle Bailey, Still Going Strong
Beetle Bailey, created by Mort Walker (1922-2018), first appeared in 1950. Despite the changes in our military since that time, the comic strip remains a culture icon. Everyone can identify […]
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, other popular songs for New Year’s are It was a Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra), Imagine by John Lennon, and What a Wonderful World made popular by Louis Armstrong.
Given the season, you may already have guessed that “Auld Lang Syne” is the song to which I’m referring. 
In the midst of all the holiday chaos, many Americans still set aside an evening to load the family into the car and drive around to see the neighborhood holiday decorations.

The other day at The Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles, I came upon this wonderful International Harvester truck, and I thought it would be fun to post a “then” and “now.”