Hi, Everybody!
My google-fu was not up to snuff, as all I could find was how many there are now, and how many were in Vietnam. As I sent Dave:
Dave,
Can't find a definitive answer to "how many PXs were there in 1969?" There are 5500 NOW, and "AAFES operated more than 300 major retail facilities; nearly 1,500 food outlets, from restaurants to food wagons; and more than 2,500 concessions from 1965-1975 in Vietnam."
That's the best answer I can give.
"Manly" Matt Dow
That was apparently good enough for Dave:
Well, kinda.
- Sally Forth began as a recruit in a commando unit in the June 1968 Military News, a 16-page tabloid from Armed Forces Diamond Sales. As Wood recalled in 1976: "It all started in 1968, when I was asked to do a complete comic section for a proposed tabloid newspaper for servicemen, four pages of full-color, service-oriented humor strips ... There was a high-flying lowlife named 'Wild Bill Yonder,' a couple of others that for some reason escape my memory ... (such an embarrassment) and one that I felt, and still feel, had a great name for a comic heroine ... Sally Forth."
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| The Diamond Ad from the back cover of Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon. |
- Sally returned July 26, 1971, in the Overseas Weekly, a tabloid intended for U.S. military men serving outside North America.
- Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon was "published" in 1969.
- Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon was never distributed.
So, Wallace Wood didn't have an "in" with the Overseas Weekly until a year or two after Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon #1. And I don't know how Marion von Rospach who started Overseas Weekly in Germany and died in New York ties into life in Oakland, CA...
And as another weird rabbit hole to this rabbit hole, I googled the addresses of the three diamond sellers with physical locations in Oakland
and you're not gonna believe this:
Now, the building housing 1126 and 1128 Broadway and 437 12th St. was knocked down before 2011, but look what at the view from where 437 was, is:
The Oakland Tribune building...
Oh wait, it gets better, in the Wikipedia article about the Overseas Weekly, the link to
this article:
I sent this up to Dave, so join me in a few days for the NEXT round of this...
(Now I gotta find the guidelines for military bases to select publications that can be sold on base from 1969...)
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