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History
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Gasoline Alley & Gasoline Alley (radio) pages on 13 January 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Gasoline Alley is a comic strip created by Frank King and currently distributed by Tribune Media Services. First published November 24, 1918, it is the second-longest-running comic strip in the US (after The Katzenjammer Kids) and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations. In addition to inventive color and page design concepts, King introduced real-time continuity to comic strips by showing his characters as they grew to maturity and aged over generations.
Radio
Gasoline Alley was an American radio sitcom based on the popularity of the newspaper comic strip Gasoline Alley by Frank King. It first aired in 1931 under the name "Uncle Walt and Skeezix".
In February 17, 1941 the show returned on NBC Radio under the name "Gasoline Alley", with almost the same cast. Unusual at the time, it was a literal transfer of the storyline that had appeared in the comics pages that very same morning. This version ended on May 9, 1941.
The syndicated series of 1948–49 featured a cast of Bill Lipton, Mason Adams and Robert Dryden. Sponsored by Autolite, the program used opening theme music by the Polka Dots, a harmonica group. The 15-minute episodes focused on Skeezix running a gas station and garage, the Wallet and Bobble Garage, with his partner, Wilmer Bobble. In New York, this series aired on WOR from July 16, 1948 to January 7, 1949.
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24 November 1918 View Gasoline Alley: 24 November 1918 - 951KB |
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1 December 1918 View Gasoline Alley: 1 December 1918 - 753KB |
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8 December 1918 View Gasoline Alley: 8 December 1918 - 743KB |
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15 December 1918 View Gasoline Alley: 15 December 1918 - 1.1MB |
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22 December 1918 View Gasoline Alley: 22 December 1918 - 1.1MB |
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29 December 1918 View Gasoline Alley: 29 December 1918 - 750KB |
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4 March 1954 View Gasoline Alley: 4 March 1954 - 376KB |
| Date | Media or Collection Name & Details | Files |
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| 16 July 1948 | Gasoline Alley A Trip and a Trap |  MP3 - 15:15 |
| 23 July 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Slippery Mr. Chiggers | MP3 - 13:45 |
| 30 July 1948 | Gasoline Alley A Kicking Around from Kid Cupid | MP3 - 13:23 |
| 6 August 1948 | Gasoline Alley Stung by the Stork | MP3 - 13:39 |
| 24 September 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Unaccustomed Public Speaker | MP3 - 13:32 |
| 1 October 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Sweet Scented Sergeant | MP3 - 13:14 |
| 8 October 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Gold Digging Deceivers | MP3 - 13:19 |
| 15 October 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Hypnotized Hero | MP3 - 13:49 |
| 22 October 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Rat Race with Rice | MP3 - 13:05 |
| 29 October 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of Fortune's Favorite Fool | MP3 - 13:05 |
| 5 November 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Fussin' Fightin' and Feudin' Friends | MP3 - 13:11 |
| 12 November 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Defective Detective | MP3 - 13:10 |
| 19 November 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Eager Beaver Legal Eagle | MP3 - 14:06 |
| 26 November 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Ancient and Honorable Autovox | MP3 - 13:09 |
| 3 December 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Spared Spare | MP3 - 13:01 |
| 10 December 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Bird Betraying Bard | MP3 - 12:57 |
| 17 December 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Agitated Announcer | MP3 - 17:02 |
| 24 December 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Musician's Ignition | MP3 - 12:58 |
| 31 December 1948 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of the Fanciful Feminine Touch | MP3 - 13:13 |
| 7 January 1949 | Gasoline Alley The Adventure of Jealous Jessica | MP3 - 12:59 |
