Richard Scarry would have loved it

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/16/2016 at 16:38 • Filed to: None

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San Francisco, 1922

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 05/16/2016 at 16:55

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Indeed, he would! And in his honor, here is one at our local rink. Didn’t know the idea went back that far.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 05/16/2016 at 16:56

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I think Richard Scarry was in Cali for part of his career, oddly enough. Seems like I heard that here. One of the fire trucks in an illustration was a recognizable west coast type, I think, and came up for discussion prompting that. At any rate, growing up in the Depression and starting his illustration career when he did he definitely had a chance to see unusual mascot cars in real life.

Ash78, voting early and often > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/16/2016 at 17:08

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You know, I just always automatically assumed Scarry was a British guy in California (based on his car choices). This is just my personal guess based on 35 years of reading Cars & Trucks & Things That Go.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often 05/16/2016 at 17:13

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Bostonian, British, same difference.

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/16/2016 at 17:13

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What I love about his drawings is the amount of detail an accuracy he goes in for, in what are basically cartoons. You can learn a whole lot of basic information from his books.