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Casa Del Mantooth

I know it might be more than a little nuts but I like to think that this is the kind of place PlaidStallion #1 Brick Mantooth goes home to every night. Halloween Countdown: We’ve got some vintage goodness this week courtesy of fellow blogger and Halloween “countdowner” Erick from Wonderful Wonderblog with this trip back […]

Super 8 Shockers

Rob from the great blog “All in Black and White for 75 Cents” sent me these great Castle film ads from various monster publications in the 70’s. While the home video market is definitely an example of how change can be good (in this case great) thing, I still kind of miss when my parents […]

He’s no good to me dead…

Halloween 1980 and that’s yours truly rocking the Ben Cooper Boba Fett outfit. I really liked this suit for a couple of reasons, the first being that you could see through the mask but people couldn’t see in real well, the other being that the picture on the front of the smock totally looked like […]

Monster Rap

One of the bigger explosions in the seventies was the rise of the homemade craft kit, which no doubt was brought about by the hippie movement of the 60’s.. Children across America were making macrame (guilty!), rug hooking (guilty!) and happily making Christmas tree Candles (My father must have worried about me). One of the […]

Pajama-Rama

Loving the props in this one, especially the feats of strength although I don’t know why the Spock kid is lifting a dumbell. The Kirk PJs in the corner show the Captain in an episode called the Tholian Web, I have to admit, I’ve never seen that episode. I’m a bad trekkie. Halloween Countdown Submission: […]

Childhood scares

I was reading an article in this month’s Geek magazine about the wonderful site Kinder Trauma and it got me thinking about things that scared the crap out of you as a kid. The kind of stuff you never forgot, I thought what better way to kick off our Halloween countdown, seeing as all of […]

Jump-Alike

This is one of the few examples of dressing alike where it hurts both parties equally. I love the tagline that states “Casual Styles too smart to just stay at home” Yes, indeed show the world your matching jumpsuits and space age flip flops. DVD DAY If you’re Canadian and grew up in the seventies, […]

Copter Envy

Although I never had Vertibird or any of the licensed Remco CSF Copters, I lived vicariously through the kids who did. Does anybody remember a version of this you could play in an arcade? It was in a big dome and you had to hunt a UFO, this was pre Space Invaders obviously. I sometimes […]

Plaidstallions 70’s Halloween Countdown

For the month of October, I’ve accepted a challenge put out by Jon (from Random acts of Geekery) and other blogs and entered the Halloween Countdown. Which means, I’ll be posting something Halloween related every day for the month of October. We’ll be starting out a little slow, posting additions to my usual blogs such […]

Christmas in the 70ʼs book project

Iʼm pleased to announce a new and fun project Iʼve become involved with that could really use input from any child/survivor of the seventies. “Christmas in the ’70s” is a planned photo-essay book about, yes,Christmas in the ’70s, as told through the yellowed snapshots of Instamatics past. Christmas in the 70’s will be a photo-essay […]