.......you mean......CREEPY CRAWLERS?!!!!!!!!!
I'm too damn old........I remember when CS was respected and a "kit car" came in an AMT box and cost 99 cents.
Our local "50,000 watt giant" was WKBW, one of "America's two great radio stations" (they never said what the other one was) and listened to George "The Hound Dog" Lorenz who was one of the three people responsible for making Rock 'n Roll popular. The Hound was friends with Elvis, could make a record a hit and didn't care if you were black, white or green as long as your music had something going for it. He is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Hounds daughter married my wifes cousin and I was excited that I would meet the legend at the wedding...alas he died the week before the wedding and I never got to meet him.
I remember when you could buy a car for $100.00 that might actually run when you bought it, more than likely it WOULDN'T run when we got done "tuning" or "improving" it.....One of my buddies bought a 1962 MGA Mk II for $100.00, we towed it home, he took of the Goodyear Bluestreaks that were on the car, sold them for $50.00 and bought some recaps for $40.00. We installed new rocker panels, using sheet metal screws as none of us could weld or braze, filled the dent in the right rear quarter with about 3 gallons of filler (never occured to us to bang it out first) and painted it BRG. Paint was old straight enamal and came out a LOT better than we ever thought it would.....Jim drove the "A" for 3 years and sold it for $1500.00, he thought he had scored big time. We loved cruising in that car, problem was if we had ever actually hooked up with some girls, where were we gonna put them? We never did have the problem.....
"Friday Night Fright Night" on WKBW-TV. After the late news all the classic Horror/Monster/Sci-Fi movies. Wolfman, Attack of the Giant Spider, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Night of the Living Dead, Rodan, Godzilla (there goes Tokyo AGAIN...B.O.C.)The Blob (with STEVEN McQueen) and all those other great, bad and just scary "films". These taught us that teenagers will ALWAYS go into a dark cave despite a giant spider roaming the area, scientists are ALWAYS gonna screw with the enviroment or DNA or sumpthin' and create, waken or summon some sort of giant/deranged/vengeful entity that will eat/stomp on/melt the local populace.
Dang, did I mention I was old.....
Rick
