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I think Big Lots carries them year 'round.

I think that's more that she can bully those two and that Violet & the older Patty were abandoned. P. Patty wouldn't be the type to be pushed around by Lucy and P. Patty would stick up for Marcie.

I always thought they were more a "I don't think enough of you to buy a personal gift & I thought you might be at this meeting/party/whatever and I wanted to avoid the embarrassment of not getting you something if you gave me something" gift. Available at "fine retailers" like Walgreens.

You might be right. But it may have been both - very early Linus and later Rerun.

Yeah that was early Linus. Charlie was pretty much oblivious to P. Patty's hints, not shunning. I could have sworn that there was a larger version of the below, possibly posted on these boards. It seemed like it listed a number of the girls having crushes on Charlie.

Not entirely. The little Red Headed Girl was actually someone from his childhood that he had a crush on. I picked up on a lot of stuff from my Mom having a ton of Snoopy stuff - to the point that she sent Schultz a picture of all the music boxes, watches, etc. after he retired. He autographed a book for her (which he purportedly no longer honored such requests).

I always took it that there are different aged kids. Linus is younger than his sister Lucy. I always thought Marcy was around Linus's age and Lucy at Charlie & Peppermint Patty's age. Charlie's sister Sally is Linus & Marcy's age. Violet and the other Patty (who are barely shown in later comics) are older than Charlie. My take always was that the younger the character, the more innocence they portrayed and therefore attached themselves to one of the older characters. Linus to Charlie, Marcy to P. Patty. As much as Charlie gets dumped on, particularly by Lucy, she still hangs around him a lot.

Meanwhile, in Australia...

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Besides the "kids stuff" they had Family Classics (Lassie Come Home, Treasure Island, Captain Blood, Heidi, etc.), pretty much old 50s/60s shows like The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Sherlock Holmes movies, Charlie Chan movies, the Cubs. The Superstation was more than likely made for Chicagoans who had left the state. WGN did have wrestling (Dick the Bruiser, The Crusher, Baron von Raschke...), the White Sox, the Bears, the Bulls, the Black Hawks, Roller Derby, Demolition Derbys...but they'd dumped that stuff long before the Superstation existed (obviously they didn't have the clout to pull in full schedules of the Chicago teams after the mid-60s).

In it's heyday, young women who weren't even engaged were requesting tickets, because the wait list was 7 years long. I was just a little kid watching it, when they broke in to announce JFK had been assassinated. I ran into another room to tell my folks & they were sure I had misheard the news.

WGN became a cable network. It's always been a local Chicago station (WGN = Worlds Greatest Newspaper aka Chicago Tribune).

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