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What was on TV September 12th through 18th, 1981 -- Fall Preview Issue
It's time for another Fall Preview and we're jumping back into the TV of my childhood with this issue from 1981. Â I always tell people, I didn't have friends as a child, I had television. Â Actually,...
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Photo Finished
Warning: This post will not interest anyone outside of the 1970's St. Louis viewing area.Are you still with me? Â Okay. While perusing a tightly packed local estate sale, I observed an elderly gentleman...
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Halloween -- It's My Bag, Baby, One Mo' Time
I know another year, same old lame joke. Â But as long as I keep finding Trick or Treat bags, I'm going to use it. Like this one!It is, in fact, another year with yet another Halloween just around the...
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Halloween Reflections
When I was a kid, I took many superstitions seriously. I always put on my left shoe first (good luck), I never stepped on a crack (and my mother's back thanks me), I never rooted for the home team...
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Russ Jumping Spider
This jumping spider novelty was produced by the Russ Berrie company, probably in the 1970's. Russ, known mainly for their trolls, also marketed novelty items like this spider.The spider has a rubbler...
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Good Halloween Fun with Billy and his Neighbors
If you've followed this blog for a while, you know I'm a sucker for kid lit. I enjoy both children's fiction as well as classroom books. All the better when they include a little Halloween.  "Billy's...
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Witchy Women
I was at the annual Canterbury Subdivision sale in Affton (where participation dwindles with each passing year) and spotted what was clearly a newer, clear Jack O' Lantern plastic container, something...
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Funny Bones
I recall one Halloween in high school, back in those magical years known as "the '80's", when a friend (you know who you are) showed up to school with this guy tucked in his pocket.I thought it was...
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The Phantom and His Visiting Fiends...er...Friends
It's another postcard today. This one from a set of Universal Studio postcards.Since the original was a black and white movie, I guess it's open to interpretation, but I don't think The Phantom (who's...
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Giant Jiggling Spiders!
What this spider lacks in action compared to my previous spider, it makes up in size. Measuring 6 inches long and 10 inches across, this rubber jiggler is also a squeaker (squeeze his abdomen) and is...
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Haunted Operation
It's 1977 and I'm playing with my neighbor who's a couple years younger than me. He pulls out this game that looks like Operation (you know, the one where you disembowel a drunken, naked man with...
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Magic Secrets
I previously wrote about my childhood love of magic and magicians, my desire to learn its secrets and how Scholastic Books fed into that desire with doses of disappointment. "Magic Secrets" was...
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Halloween Throw
This is out of line with the usual "finds" I post, but I thought this Halloween throw blanket (actually I found 2) I picked up for 50 cents was pretty cool. It's not vintage, but has that look. Plus if...
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Sssssss-tupid
The sight of this VHS tape at a recent garage sale brought back memories of one of my childhood Kindertraumas. The premise of the story is pretty lame. A scientist decides the human race can only...
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Dynamite Count Morbida Poster
This poster was included in an issue I picked up of Scholastic Books'"Dynamite Magazine", the "People" magazine for the 1970's and 80's prepubescent crowd. Each month brought a celebrity spotlight...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not True Ghost Stories
This copy of Ripley's Believe It or Not True Ghost Stories comic was among the coverless comics I picked up a while back. It features four stories of Comics Code approved horror (translation, not...
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Busy Bee Holiday Fun
Have some Holiday Fun coloring this Trick or Treat picture. Halloween is coming.
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Wacky Memories
These days for Halloween treats, people favor handing out pre-packaged candies; the treat you receive from one house indistinguishable from the next. When I Trick or Treated as a kid, I might receive...
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13 Black Cats
In hindsight, I should have posted this last Friday.This pack of Peck "13 Black Cats" die cuts was still sealed when I found it. However, the staples were barely clinging to the plastic, so I didn't...
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