Weird-Ohs Items!

[Hepcat]

Here's an Ed Roth record I've had since the '60's...

Man, do I ever envy you for the Surfink record!

[Hepcat]

Does anyone have a good picture of the Weird-Oh Magic Slates? I can't find one.

[Monster Bob]

Somewhere I have a set of the slates, but I have no idea where.
They were larger and squarer than typical magic slates, and came in pastel pink, green, and blue maybe? Not sure if was blue. Each was topped with a specific character..."Digger", "Drag Nut", etc., with the classic artwork. Been a looooong time since I've seen them!

[bigbud]

That's cause they reside in the cornfields of Kansas.....with me. Snuck in and grabbed them babies. Hoped it would be many more years before you discovered the loss.......Love, Buddy

[dlhenderson]

Let's see. I had a Freddy Flameout notebook (three ring); also a Davy notebook. A few of the model kits and a couple of the Nutty Mad style plastic figures. Around the same period, I built up three Ed Roth kits (Surfink, Batfink, and Mr. Gasser). Mr. Gasser was my first one. I was also inspired to draw similar monstrosities. I called them "Goonies" (around 1964 - '65). I made some pocket change drawing them on classmates "blue Horse" notebooks.

[dlhenderson]

Here's a snapshot of my "desktop" in the early '60's. Upon close inspection you can see a couple of Ed Roth kits, Surfink (missing a hand) and Mr. Gasser (on his side) and of course Big Frankie, the original Aurora Frankenstein, and the Remco Herman Munster. That's a jiggly gorilla under the lamp and a skull shaped candle next to it. Things became VERY cluttered in the following years, making this pic seem downright austere to me.

[bigbud]

dlhenderson, I also see a cool transistor radio and one of those as-me black balls. What can you tell us about the I-Spy image on the wall?   Buddy

[dlhenderson]

The first posters I had were the ones offered by NBC, promoting their new fall season. I guess it was fall of '65. So this photo must be from that summer. The posters were I Spy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart (Jack Davis art), and Bonanza. Within the next three years, posters took over the entire room (a large basement room in a split level house). Some of these were the so-called "personality" posters, which were ubiquitous at the time. Most of them were B&W images from the history of Hollywood and were $1 apiece.  They were around 30 x 40 inches. I had a King King, a Laurel and Hardy, and a great one of Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu. Then the psychedelic posters took over.

[GAKENSTEIN]

Is that a stuffed kamen next to Big Frankie?  We used to have one of those -- fascinated the hell out of me -- to think this reddish brown leathery thing was once a living critter.  These were fairly common room decor pieces in the 60s.  So un-pc nowadays.

[Inkfink]

On your desk lamp, is that a tiki head with faux diamond eyes? And above that, retro Wikipedias?

Thanks for sharing the photo! It's a great time capsule!

[dlhenderson]

Yes GAKENSTEIN, I'm afraid that's a stuffed little gator. Got it at The Alligator Farm in Florida on a vacation. It's freaky to recollect the shop with row after row of these stuffed critters. Some of them were in perverse poses; playing little bongos and wearing little clothes. I was very fond of the little gator, almost like a pet, except that it was...dead. On a side note, I visited The Alligator Farm many years later and was happy to see that it had evolved into a real conservatory. No stuffed gator shops in sight.
You nailed it, Inkfink! Very sharp eyes. That is a little carved tiki with faux ruby eyes. I think I got it on the same Florida trip that spawned the gator. And, yep, those are retro wikis for sure; The World Book Encyclopedia. I spent a lot of time with those growing up.
Also in the shot is the camera bag for my Kodak Instamatic. I don't remember when that transistor radio went "the way of all flesh"...
Here's the same corner a couple of years later. Good grief, why am I airing my madness?! Oh, I'm on the UMA site, that's why! 

[Illoman]

I like the little Frazetta Ringo Starr pic! Obviously a man of discriminating taste! LOL!!!

[dlhenderson]

Yes, I've always had VERY discriminating taste! 

[Monolith]

 Lots of great stuff in that pic! I used to have that color King Kong poster, the one below the I SPY poster, but I can't remember where it's from. It was from a magazine wasn't it? Really nice artwork on those I SPY and MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. posters.

[Illoman]

Yes, I've always had VERY discriminating taste! 

When are you going to bless us with some new artwork?