(By the way, the word, “nondescript” was coined by a lazy writer who didn’t want to go to the trouble of describing something.) The building is at parallel angles with the streets, with the “front” of the building sliced off at the corner. Architecturally, the lines of the nondescript building are pure function. Okay, so old enough to be …kind of old-ish, (if you’re kind of youngish). The building has gone through yet another repurposing.īut, hmm… 1948. Now, all of that short-lived signage has been painted over in slate blue. That building was renovated not so long ago the lettering painted on the wall above the corner door read, “Tri-City Building” and a smaller circle to the right proudly declared, “circa 1948.” ![]() ![]() If you currently live in Covington and you occasionally drive to the Post Office, the one-way traffic pattern gives you no choice but to pass the building where it was, there on your left at the corner of Usher and Brown Streets. Some would find the location of our bookstore in an unlikely spot, and indeed, even the local citizens of that time did not generally think of that business in literary terms. The Fold-In was a hidden picture trick: unfolded you read the illustrated set-up, then you had to fold the page at the marks to get the visual and verbal punchline. In 2010 he was noted as saying, “Serious people my age are dead.”Īl Jaffee contributed a lot of material throughout MAD, but he was most famous for a feature on the back page called the “Fold-In” - a cheeky title playing on the term “fold-out,” something found in the center of magazines of a different genre. With a career running from 1942 until 2020, he never outgrew his impish youthful humor. ![]() Jaffee brought me laughter every month as a cartoonist for MAD Magazine. Earlier this year, the memory of my childhood bookstore hit my heart, my head, and my mind’s eye when I learned that Al Jaffee had died at 102 years old.
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