Discussion (5)¬

1. Matt Worthington says:

   April 28, 2009 at 11:16 am

   The payment center is a Bell Telephone payment center, which further dates the strip to 1982. They were kind of like the wireless service and payment centers so common today, except that they owned the phones…which were bigger, didn’t come in quite as many colors, and had to be plugged into a phone line in order to work. Did I mention that they owned the phones?

2. Sylvia Henderson says:

   April 28, 2009 at 3:40 am

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3. Tim Jackson says:

   April 27, 2009 at 9:06 am

   oops— wore afro picks—

4. Tim Jackson says:

   April 27, 2009 at 9:04 am

   They still work afro pick sticking out of their hair in ’82? I thought that was the era of the scary curl! I can identify with the meaning of this cartoon. Is being told this a cartoonist thing ?

5. PeaceZGood says:

   April 26, 2009 at 12:17 pm

   What was at first a telephone and message machine is now Lemont’s “Momma”. FANTASTIC transformation. Love the background pics, also. But, why the “Payment Center”?