Facilities Feature: Beetle Bailey Sculpture
 Location: Conley
Avenue, near the site of the former campus hangout, "The Shack."
Date unveiled: Homecoming
1992
Honors: MU
alum and cartoonist Mort Walker
Take
a seat with Beetle Bailey: The life-size, bronze
sculpture depicts Beetle Bailey seated at a table from "The
Shack." Mort Walker created the character of Beetle Bailey
while he attended MU in the late 40s, and he often drew his
cartoons at the popular hangout, the Shack. The Shack burned
down October 31, 1988.
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