The real Popeye the sailer.

[the other mike]

I read about this long before the internet or cell phones, or computers, or word processors back when we used to type in triplicate carbon paper in the army...

I used to watch Popeye on a black and white television, before I learned to read.

They still show Popeye on TV here six days a week. The original cartoon in the 1930s was state of the art and to this day one of the best drawn cartoons of all time.

They were amazing.
You know, Who Framed Roger Rabbit took forever to make - it was the most advanced pre-digital animation at the time it came out.

Roger Rabbit has a gorgeous human gf but forget her name, at the moment.

Jessica ?

 

[xband]

I read about this long before the internet or cell phones, or computers, or word processors back when we used to type in triplicate carbon paper in the army...

I used to watch Popeye on a black and white television, before I learned to read.

They still show Popeye on TV here six days a week. The original cartoon in the 1930s was state of the art and to this day one of the best drawn cartoons of all time.

They were amazing.
You know, Who Framed Roger Rabbit took forever to make - it was the most advanced pre-digital animation at the time it came out.

Roger Rabbit has a gorgeous human gf but forget her name, at the moment.

Jessica ?

Yes, absolutely gorgeous

 

[bodecea]

Thought I'd share something that surfaced on Facebook today.

His real name was Frank "Rocky" Fiegel. He was born in 1868 in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois. As a young man, Rocky went to sea. After a 20-year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired. He was later hired by Wiebusch's Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar.

Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting ( and usually winning). As a result, he had a deformed eye ("Pop-eye"). He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth. In his spare time as a Bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’

The creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea’ stories.’ Years later, Segar became a cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’ He honored Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the Sailor Man,’ after him. Naturally Fiegel was flattered and agreed.

Segar claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based on an actual person. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a small grocery store in Chester. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl character in his comics. He claimed she even dressed much the same way.

Through the years, Segar kept in touch with Rocky and always helped him with money; giving him a small percentage of what he earned from his ‘Popeye’ illustrations.
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[toobfreak]

I read about this long before the internet or cell phones, or computers, or word processors back when we used to type in triplicate carbon paper in the army...

I used to watch Popeye on a black and white television, before I learned to read.

They still show Popeye on TV here six days a week. The original cartoon in the 1930s was state of the art and to this day one of the best drawn cartoons of all time.

They were amazing.
You know, Who Framed Roger Rabbit took forever to make - it was the most advanced pre-digital animation at the time it came out.

I wasn't a great fan of the movie per se, but I was a great fan of the artistic / technical side of doing the animation. I was also a great fan of Jessica Rabbit.

 

[Synthaholic]

Thought I'd share something that surfaced on Facebook today.

His real name was Frank "Rocky" Fiegel. He was born in 1868 in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois. As a young man, Rocky went to sea. After a 20-year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired. He was later hired by Wiebusch's Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar.

Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting ( and usually winning). As a result, he had a deformed eye ("Pop-eye"). He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth. In his spare time as a Bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’

The creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea’ stories.’ Years later, Segar became a cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’ He honored Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the Sailor Man,’ after him. Naturally Fiegel was flattered and agreed.

Segar claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based on an actual person. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a small grocery store in Chester. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl character in his comics. He claimed she even dressed much the same way.

Through the years, Segar kept in touch with Rocky and always helped him with money; giving him a small percentage of what he earned from his ‘Popeye’ illustrations.

Where does Wimpy fit in?

That’s miketx.

 

[the other mike]

Thought I'd share something that surfaced on Facebook today.

His real name was Frank "Rocky" Fiegel. He was born in 1868 in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois. As a young man, Rocky went to sea. After a 20-year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired. He was later hired by Wiebusch's Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar.

Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting ( and usually winning). As a result, he had a deformed eye ("Pop-eye"). He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth. In his spare time as a Bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’

The creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea’ stories.’ Years later, Segar became a cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’ He honored Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the Sailor Man,’ after him. Naturally Fiegel was flattered and agreed.

Segar claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based on an actual person. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a small grocery store in Chester. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl character in his comics. He claimed she even dressed much the same way.

Through the years, Segar kept in touch with Rocky and always helped him with money; giving him a small percentage of what he earned from his ‘Popeye’ illustrations.
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Well you know I wasn't in the Navy now.

 

[occupied]

It never mentions if he actually ate a lot of spinach...

Canned spinach was common on ships to prevent scurvy. Lots of vitamin C.

 

[fncceo]

Sailer is a type of boat... Sailor is a person.

 

[the other mike]

Sailer is a type of boat... Sailor is a person.

Thank ewe four being the second or turd won two korrect me awn it .
Did yoo no that or Google it ?