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The Days Before Beta Max

These bring me back, I can remember watching “Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan” on my neighbour’s wall back in 1977. They had played with it so much that all three siblings were saying the dialogue in unison, kind of strange.Two thoughts entered my mind, one was “Who is Charlie Chan?” and the other was […]

Godzilla and the Shogun Warriors

That title sounds like the coolest cartoon we never got but it’s just the contents of the 1979 Mattel catalog, this time focusing on all the cool Shogun Warriors and Godzilla merchandise at the time. Launching fists, pre transformable mecha and Godzilla gets himself a gang.

R.I.P Uncle Bobby

I just heard the sad news that Bobby Ash aka Uncle Bobby passed away on May 20th. For nearly twenty years he was the host of the “Uncle Bobby Show” (later renamed Kids Corner) on CTV. The above autographed picture is from my collection, I met Bobby at a mall in ’74, probably my first […]

Come on, get happy!

I’m a little young to have experienced the Partridge Family when they originally aired but they ruled Channel 29 with their many reruns and cartoon spinoffs. So I kind of think this merch from 1973 is neat, although I am upset about the absence of anything relating to Reuben Kincaide.Believe it or not the head […]

Bedspread Fantasy and Reality

Here we have a small snippet of my childhood, if asked which bedspread I wanted there is no doubt in my mind that the six year old me would have chosen Star Trek. I was forced to watch it every Saturday morning when my sister had a fleeting crush on William Shatner (she now shivers […]

The Ultimate 70’s Action Figure Tribute

ACTION FIGURES, CLASSIC 70’S by ~dusty-abell on deviantARTI got sent a link to this amazing piece by Dusty Abell last night and just had to showcase it today. This is pretty much how things looked in my six year old mind, I’m truly floored and need to get a copy of this somehow for my […]