Red and Rover by Brian Basset for December 26, 2015

My best present would be love of Rover, but that you can’t exchange!!

Red, you’ve got the best toy in the world—Rover!

I thought this strip was set back in the mid 60s, Not yet a lot of malls back then

Well it they live in Seattle the Northgate Mall opened in 1948…

Never did that to my kids :D

To TomTheBrat: neither did I, but sometimes grandmas give those things. I love seeing those two relaxing together. Warms my heart.

Red, you look so-o-o comfortable lounging in your pj’s with Rover relaxing by you. I think I’d ditch the idea of the mall. Have a wonderful “together” day.

LOVE & HUGS TO RED & ROVER

I believe it’s set in 1969 or 1970, the best I can tell. We had a nice mall here in Raleigh back then.

I got a break in the rain for christmas,No way i would exchange that, even if i could.

Yes we had one of the bigger malls, Delamo Fashion Square, Torrance, California. Grew up going there, built in the early ’60s.

Also Southcenter opened in 1968. The strip was set at the time of the expanding Interstates and the financially shrinking small town main streets. Smaller downtowns are full of nostalgia, but just try to find a parking space.

Northland (Southfield MI) opened on March 22, 1954.

Maybe you’re thinking of the enclosed mall. There were shopping centers that were sometimes called malls from at least the late ’50s.

“Yes, indeedy?” I love the way Red uses old-timey sayings; it gives the comic a timeless feel… I expect him to bust out a “Criminy!” soon ;)

I got way more than I wanted or needed, which was basically wanting or needing nothing…

Were there even shopping malls in the late 60s/early 70s, when this strip is set?