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Purchased for me, whether or not at my urging I have no memory, presumably sometime around 1968, when I had seen some number of runs of King Kong, which had had no few public-domain prints circulating, on local tv broadcasts...I had seen the film about ten times, at least, by the time I was six years old (in '7o), and have no clear memory of Not having this pillow around. Presumably my mother sewed up a part of it for me, after rough treatment and/or the Cheena River flood (in Fairbanks, Alaska) in 1967 caused it some damage. That such a pillow was mass-produced sometime in the mid-late '60s gives some indication of how much a Very Young audience was taken with KK in those years, if the KK/Gojira film and similar ripoffs and the 1960s cartoon series and other similar ripoffs in that arena didn't make that clear.
Have you had anything Rosebud-esque that has managed to survive a similar passage, so far?
Remarkable how many selfies Google image search registers as similar to this.
ReplyDeleteMy Mother's old 78 RPM records that I used to play on my portable record player - mostly big band but a lot of Bing & Frank too. I wasn't even in school yet when she let me have them. Sadly, I broke a few. When she cleaned out her house I took them and kept them until 2 years ago when I gave them to my neighbor who had just inherited a hand crank Victrola that he could play them on. It was great because they survived. I didn't have to throw them away. They were so sentimental to me that I kept them in my basement for 40 years even though I had nothing to play them on. The one with the best memories for me was Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo," America's 1st gold record. GO PHILLIES!
ReplyDeleteCool. I have a turntable, but I'll have to check if it has a stylus set for 78s, as my family's Panasonic in the '70s did. I have a couple/few 78 albums. Many more LPs from my parents' collection.
ReplyDeleteLiterally every person I know on the Internet would LOVE to have this! Very cool!
ReplyDeleteNo nightmares with this pillow?!
ReplyDeleteLess so, Neeru, than from the film itself! In fact, I had a recurring nightmare as a small child in which Kong is reaching in through a window to catch me, and, eventually, I became self-aware enough of the fact it was a nightmare that I was able to calm myself down in the nightmare while still asleep. About age five. This would be how I became a lifelong (so far) lover of horror narrative...it does help one cope with terror.
ReplyDeleteBrian, someone is selling a "vintage" stuff it yourself kit of essentially the same two printed fabrics, pre-sewn as a bag, essentially--this also came up with a Google Images search. and perhaps others are selling them elsewhere. I would recommend the same sort of lightest foam possible, as mine has, so as not to stress the ancient (well, fifty yearsish old) fabric too much.