Kilroy was here
Quincy celebrating link to WWII icon created by shipyard scribbler
Kilroy is alive and well. The google-eyed, long-nosed cartoon figure of ''Kilroy was here" fame -- first scrawled on a ship in Quincy's Fore River Shipyard during World War II's production push -- has gone on to attain cultural icon status. The 1940s doodle that became ubiquitous on battleships, above urinals, even reportedly scrawled on the bellies of pregnant women, ... (Full article: 1084 words)
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