...back in the stone age - I can relate, my TV had knobs I had to turn to change the channel, aluminum foil on the antenna was needed to get the signal to come in, the phone had a rotary dial, old horror movies were broadcast on UHF and was rarely clear, usually fuzzy looking. It was a different world back then.
I remember those old days. We had horror movies on the VHF channels too. Channel 6 Creature Features was always cool. The UHF channels came in the 70's. I remember watching "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and "Dementia 13" on channel 23 back in 1970. My parents can't believe they let me watch those movies but I loved them.
The Palm Springs movie theater was only a couple of blocks away so I could actually walk to the movies if something cool was playing on the weekends. I remember seeing a double feature of "Tarzan and The Valley Of Gold" and "Frankenstein Conquers The World" at the old Palm Springs. Good times!
Oh and I forgot about Channel 10's Nightmare Theater that show used to scare me as a kid. The Ghostly Host was a disembodied head that would host the movie and freak me out. This was in the 60's by the 70's the show was gone.
Neat story for the Halloween season.
ReplyDeleteTom Sutton, one of the greatest. This was a great issue of Eerie as well. I bought it as a kid back in the stone age....I mean silver age.
ReplyDelete...back in the stone age - I can relate, my TV had knobs I had to turn to change the channel, aluminum foil on the antenna was needed to get the signal to come in, the phone had a rotary dial, old horror movies were broadcast on UHF and was rarely clear, usually fuzzy looking. It was a different world back then.
ReplyDeleteI remember those old days. We had horror movies on the VHF channels too. Channel 6 Creature Features was always cool. The UHF channels came in the 70's. I remember watching "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and "Dementia 13" on channel 23 back in 1970. My parents can't believe they let me watch those movies but I loved them.
ReplyDeleteThe Palm Springs movie theater was only a couple of blocks away so I could actually walk to the movies if something cool was playing on the weekends. I remember seeing a double feature of "Tarzan and The Valley Of Gold" and "Frankenstein Conquers The World" at the old Palm Springs. Good times!
Oh and I forgot about Channel 10's Nightmare Theater that show used to scare me as a kid. The Ghostly Host was a disembodied head that would host the movie and freak me out. This was in the 60's by the 70's the show was gone.
ReplyDeleteAnd I also forgot the great host MT Graves
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RSktFWSdec