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3 unusual facts about John Churchill Chase


John Churchill Chase

This street runs perpendicular to the Mississippi River, through the New Orleans Warehouse District, about two blocks downriver (North, at this point) from the Crescent City Connection Bridge.

He worked as assistant cartoonist to Frank King at the Chicago Tribune on the popular comic strip "Gasoline Alley" and other cartoons, before returning to New Orleans in 1927 to become editorial cartoonist for the New Orleans Item.

One of his notable projects was a series of cartoons featuring the Texas Longhorns' mascot "Bevo" for the University of Texas at Austin in the 1950s and 1960s.



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