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Our Own Oddities
''Our Own Oddities'' is an illustrated panel that ran in the Sunday comics section of the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' from 1940 to 1990.〔John M. McGuire, "Still Odd after All These Years," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', June 27, 1990.〕 When it began September 1, 1940, it was titled ''St. Louis Oddities''. The feature displayed curiosities submitted by local readers and is often remembered for its drawings of freakish produce, such as a potato that resembled Richard Nixon. The style of the panel was very similar to ''Ripley's Believe it or Not!''
The curiosities, including actual fruits and vegetables, were submitted to ''Post-Dispatch'' illustrator Ralph Graczak (pronounced ''Gray''-zak), who each week selected several items and produced a color illustration to be printed in the Sunday paper. Graczak retired from the newspaper in 1980, but he continued to produce the panel for ten more years in addition to doing a talk show on St.Louis' KMOX radio.〔 He died of a heart attack August 3, 1997.〔Victor Volland, "Ralph Graczak; Longtime Artist at ''Post'' Drew ''Our Own Oddities''," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', August 4, 1997.〕
==Controversy==
In addition to bizarre produce, ''Our Own Oddities'' featured other peculiar local trivia, such as a local woman who lived at 1919 Montgomery Street and was born at nine o'clock on August 19, 1919.〔 Clever church signs and tombstone epitaphs were popular features. Despite its quaint illustrated style and typically benign subjects, the feature was the cause of controversy when, on May 24, 1988, it included a sign on a truck-repair shop that read, "These premises protected by a pit bull with AIDS."〔Sue Ann Wood, "Stab at Humor Is Not Funny," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', May 29, 1988.〕 The newspaper printed several angry letters. Graczak and the newspaper's features editor expressed regret.〔
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