The venerable comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is wrapping up a storyline in which the dastardly assistant mayor schemed to change the town’s name from Gasoline Alley to the ostensibly more modern Electric Acres (without even offering a compromise such as Hybrid Hollow).
Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just as it usually applies the brakes to abrupt municipal name changes in the real…