She exudes the happiness of a woman whose collections and friendships give her many reasons to smile. When you first meet and exchange Facebook and email information with Linda, you immediately recognize that she is not only vibrant and attractive, but also a huge Peanuts and Snoopy fan. “Snoopy,” the name of the outgoing beagle cartoonist Charles Schulz created, is Linda’s email username.
Linda’s love for Snoopy doesn’t end with her email username. Get to know her and Linda will invite you to discover her extensive Snoopy collection, a collection that she has been assembling for more than 40 years. He fills an entire bedroom in his huge house to overflowing. There are Snoopy’s on the walls, Snoopy and the gang on the floor, there are even Snoopy’s popping out of the ceiling, attached to a spiral display stand hanging from the ceiling.
Visitors to Linda’s Snoopy room are drawn up and down and generally react with oh and oh and “Oh my gosh.” Most are in no rush to leave, as there is always one more Snoopy to attract attention. Linda’s laughter and smiles encourage you to appreciate her collection, but don’t stumble upon her!
Linda’s has traveled the western United States in search of Snoopy’s to add to her collection. Perhaps what attracts collectors, like Linda, to Snoopy is his way of communicating wisdom and all that is necessary to know with his facial expressions and thought balloons.
In addition to his hall full of display cabinets, Snoopy also has the court in an upstairs loft bedroom. Here Snoopy dominates as he “guards” his famous doghouse surrounded by more Snoopy holding his dinner plate with Woodstock perched next to the plate. Snoopy’s towels, washcloths and soap greet visitors using the nearby guest bathroom, and a custom-made stained glass window, by Linda’s father, lights up and catches the light coming through the loft window.
Snoopy made his first cartoon appearance in October 1950, when Linda was still a child. He’s been a fan for as long as he can remember, starting with stuffed animals and other toys. Today her Snoopy collection numbers in the thousands, ranging from jewelry to phones and everything in between, including not just thousands of vintage items from the 1950s, but also the newest limited edition license plates. and the Christmas tree decorations issued annually, which Linda hangs up and displays. year-round in indoor “Snoopy” trees.
Followers of the Peanuts comics know Snoopy as a one-man show, viewing him as a dog with advanced intelligence and vivid imagination. Snoopy has created such multiple personalities as: Joe Cool, WWI Flying Ace, Literary Ace, Flashbeagle, and Foreign Legionnaire. Snoopy memorabilia collectors look for collectibles of all of them.
Born and raised in Southern California, Linda worked prior to retirement as an executive assistant in Rockwell International’s Southern California office. During the 1970s, Charles Schulz visited the Rockwell plant where he worked and Linda was fortunate to not only meet the cartoonist, but also the lucky few who later received a generous autographed “thank you” drawing from Snoopy. riding a Rockwell spaceship.
This framed and matted 15 x 20 “cartoon drawing is the most treasured piece in Linda’s Snoopy collection. As a huge fan, she feels fortunate to have met Charles (Sparky) M. Schulz, the creator of the Snoopy gang and the Peanuts.
After selling his comics to the Saturday Evening Post and other publications, Charles Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with some of his best strips. Peanuts made its first appearance with United Features on October 2, 1950, becoming one of the most popular comic strips of all time.
The Peanuts cartoon ran for almost 50 years without interruption, appearing in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Sadly, in November 1999, Charles Schulz suffered a stroke and later found out that he had colon cancer. Complications from chemotherapy made the cartoonist unable to read or see clearly, and he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999. By then, three generations of Americans had grown up with the Peanuts gang and “good Charlie Brown.”
Schulz was quoted as saying on The Today Show, “I never dreamed this would happen to me. I always had the feeling that I would keep the strip until I was eighty or so. But all of a sudden it’s gone. I didn’t take it off. This has been taken from me. “
Charles Schulz died in Santa Rosa, California of complications from colon cancer on February 12, 2000, at the age of 77. That same year, the California Sonoma County Board of Supervisors renamed the Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport in his honor. The airport emblem features Snoopy in goggles and a scarf, taking to the skies on top of his doghouse.
The Schulz family briefly lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Charles Schulz painted a wall at his home for his daughter Meredith, with Patty, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy. The wall was removed in 2001 and donated to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, the city where he lived and worked for more than 30 years.
Opened on August 17, 2002, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center celebrates his life’s work and the art of caricature and is located just two blocks from his former studio. A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in the Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa.
In his will, Charles Schulz requested that the Peanuts characters remain as genuine as possible and that no new comics be drawn based on them. United Features has legal rights to the strip, but Schulz’s wishes have been carried out. Replays of the comic strip are still being distributed and new TV specials have also been produced since his death, but the stories are based on previous strips.