Y'know, my whole life I've been razzed about my name. Then they decide to put my picture on (hick) the dollar! Wow, I thought, at last some positive recognition...but, noooo...'

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Y'know, my whole life I've been razzed about my name. Then they decide to put my picture on (hick) the dollar! Wow, I thought, at last some positive recognition...but, noooo...'

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: Economic conditions in Canada; the low exchange rate for the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar. A loon, wearing a Canadian flag toque, sits at a bar smoking and drinking, while the bartender reads a newspaper whose headline states 'Loonie worth less and less...' Original cartoon is in colour.

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Date 1995-01-15

Creator Rodewalt, Vance

Genre Photographs

Subject Bars (Drinking establishments), Bartenders, Canada--Economic conditions, Caricatures and cartoons, Cigarettes, Devaluation of currency, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Loons, Money--Canada, Political satire, Reading, Smoking

Archival Information

Repository Glenbow Archives

Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds

Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016

Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds

Unique identifier CU235416

Legacy Identifier m-9457-47

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Attribution "Y'know, my whole life I've been razzed about my name. Then they decide to put my picture on (hick) the dollar! Wow, I thought, at last some positive recognition...but, noooo...'", 1995-01-15, (CU235416) by Rodewalt, Vance. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.