Childhood Memories

Vandellia · Joined: Sep 07, 2005 Posts: 3

Here is a list of some of my favorite childhood memories
1. Science Fiction theater with truman bradley
2. The Shadow Re-broadcasts on my local PBS station
3. re-runs of Flash Gordon starring Bustre Crabbe
4. reading the re-released Avenger Series
5. reading the re-released Doc Savage Series
6. reading Ace Doubles -Sci fi

RedPanda · Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 1886 Location: Hamilton

Looks like you came to the right place, Vandellia. Welcome.

Manager · Joined: Aug 24, 2005 Posts: 26 Location: Rochester, NY

Doc Savage reprints
Tarzan reprints
Anything by Heinlein (I must have read Citizen of the Galaxy a hundred times), anything by Eric Frank Russell (ditto Wasp)
Every science fiction movie that ever appeared on television (ditto The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)
Lots of OTR out of a station in Buffalo that came on late at night (you know, around 9 PM) that I could barely get if I tipped my radio just right in the corner of my headboard

Ahhhhhh...

Space_Cadet · Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 2627 Location: Central Florida

I discovered comics at about 7, Tom Swift Jr. at about 10, Heinlein's juvies and everything Burroughs (especially Mars and Pelucidar) at 12, EE Smith's Lensman and Skylark books at 13 and pulp reprints shortly after that. From that point on, it was a mad dash through the universe of speculative literature.
Yup, I explored the solar system with the Stone twins, Matt Dodson and his buddies Pete and Tex. Then moved out into the vastness of the universe with a group of Gray Lensmen, Hugh Hoyland and Joe-Jim. And of course Thorby Baslim. Can you grok that?

Space

Marsfilm · Joined: Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 213 Location: NYC

I can grok it.

bereanman · Joined: Sep 23, 2005 Posts: 40

Saturday Mornings with:
The Lone Ranger
Sky King
My Friend Flicka
Fury
and Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon.

Saturday Afternoons with:
Lik'm'Ade
A 5 cent bag of Salted Pumpkin Seeds
and an Adventure Comic starring The Legion Of Super Heroes!
(I've still got those..... the comic books I mean not the Pumpkin Seeds)

bereanman

Axeman · Post subject: Re: Childhood Memories Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:09 pm

I'll share this experience with you as it's related... Some years ago, when Son of the Axeman was 7 or so, we'd lost our good TV antenna system on a Saturday morning and he couldn't watch any of this cartoons. After fiddling with the reception I finally pulled in a PBS station that was showing "The Lone Ranger."

Kinda excited, I told him, "Hey, this is what I used to watch when I was your age .. give it a try." I was even more pleased when I walked through the front room some 15 minutes later and he seemed to be watching raptly. "So what do you think?" asked.

"Yeah - it's pretty good, Dad," he answered, "but the TV's broke"

"What do you mean" I responded, wondering what was wrong now.

"Well look...there's no color."

Chuckling, I told him, "No...that's the way they made it."

He gave me one of those who-in-the-heck-do-you-think-you're-kidding looks and said, "Yeah right....and why would they have done that."

And in the hands of such is the future of this country.

thingmaker · Joined: Sep 04, 2005 Posts: 72 Location: San Francisco

Actually, I don't have to wait for my second childhood. I'm still in my first.

One of my favorite childhood things is toy soldiers. Specifically, toy soldier astronauts. My avatar is a Marx astronaut figure - one of the 2" figures sold as a part of the '60s playsets. I'm also fond of the MPC 45mm astronauts, which are the ones I had when I was a little kid.

One of my current projects is the building of a lunar exploration vehicle for my little astronauts using parts of old, broken, GI Joe vehicles from the 1980s and a rather odd 21" toy golf-bag of very recent vintage.