As *spoon* as Arch comes back from vacation Hepcat will still be Hepcat. 8 8

[Hepcat]

Here are some scans from my Leaf Munsters  card set:

 

 

And here are a couple of scans from my Addams Family gum card set that Donruss issued in 1964:

 

Edited July 10, 2017 by Hepcat

[Robot Man]

On 7/7/2017 at 0:03 PM, Hepcat said:

My favourite record store when I was in high school from 1966-70 was Bluebird Records on the south side of Dundas Street just west of Wellington Street in downtown London, Ontario. It was two blocks away from my high school and was perhaps my most frequent after school haunt. One of my strongest memories of Bluebird Records is of the three Rolling Stones' EPs that were always up there on the wall near the counter:

 

 

  

 

 

Bluebird Records is where in 1967 I bought my first record, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and perhaps all of the first half dozen(?) or so:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can recall only three different sales clerks. Two of these were always in the store and they seemed quite knowledgeable (and super cool and sophisticated!) to me at the time.

 

Bluebird closed its doors sometime in the mid-seventies in the face of other, perhaps better capitalized, record stores opening their doors in downtown London.

 

The other record shop I frequented in my early record buying days in 1967-68 was the Disc Shop in the Wellington Square Mall which was a block south of Bluebird Records and was anchored by an Eaton's department store. While prices were the same, the Disc Shop did much more volume than Bluebird Records because of the popularity of the Wellington Square Mall and could therefore be a bit of a zoo. As a result, the Disc Shop seemed more chaotic and less organized to me and I just didn't patronize it as much.

 

 

My first store way Dolly's Records on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena CA. I remember standing in line with my best friend, Larry to buy the Beatles Yesterday and Today (Butcher cover) the day it came out. I bought most of my "British invasion" records with my allowance.

A few years later I discovered Pooh Bah Records in Pasadena "Old Town" as it is known to day. In those days is was "the hood" and I was told to stay away from there. Of course, since my parents didn't want me to go there, I did anyway out of curiosity. There were surplus stores, pawn shops, a tattoo parlor as well as a couple used book stores, a music shop, Poo Bah Records and The Free Press Book Store. All of this plus cute hippy girls and smell of pot wafting through the air made sure I spent a lot of time there.

Poo Bah Records sold new releases as well as tons of used records. Owned by an old beatnik guy. People used to walk in with records to sell as well as old comic books once in a while as well.  I bought a number of GA comics real cheap. The owner would put them under the counter for me. It was a regular hangout for me. It was attached to a small guitar shop where I bought a nice used Fender Telecaster as well. 

The area is now all cleaned up and known as "Old Town". Full of young hipsters and coffee shops, and cafes. I liked it better when it was "the hood"...

Good Times!

[1950's war comics]

This was a favorite record of mine back in the days and me and my buds actually used the rolling paper to light up a big fat one back in the day 

i always thought the original album with rolling paper intact would be worth something but it is not

[Hepcat]

On ‎13‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 5:01 PM, Robot Man said:

 

The area is now all cleaned up and known as "Old Town". Full of young hipsters and coffee shops, and cafes. I liked it better when it was "the hood"...

 

I hate it when neat old neighbourhoods become yuppified! Toronto's hippie Yorkville neighbourhood became yuppified by the early seventies and run down Queen Street West with its coin  shops, comic shops, pawn shops and porn shops suffered the same fate in the eighties.

And now since the nineties the Lakeshore motel strip has been completely destroyed by wave after wave of soulless high-rise condos, a development that rapacious city counsellors have abetted and cheered in their unending quest for ever higher property "values" to tax. Very sad.

 

Edited July 15, 2017 by Hepcat

[Robot Man]

43 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

This was a favorite record of mine back in the days and me and my buds actually used the rolling paper to light up a big fat one back in the day 

i always thought the original album with rolling paper intact would be worth something but it is not

Albums like that that opened up were perfect for rolling up a few. I'm sure I still have a couple with a few stray seeds or shake still in them...

[Robot Man]

31 minutes ago, Hepcat said:

 

I hate it when neat old neighbourhoods become yuppified! Toronto's hippie Yorkville neighbourhood became yuppified by the early seventies and run down Queen Street West with its coins shops, comic shops, pawn shops and porn shops suffered the same fate in the eighties.

And now since the nineties the Lakeshore motel strip has been completely destroyed by wave after wave of soulless high-rise condos, a development that rapacious city counsellors have abetted and cheered in their unending quest for ever higher property "values" to tax. Very sad.

 

Yeah, same thing where I live now. Downtown by the beach had a great old "carney" amusement park built in the 1920's. The was called "The Pike". Shortly after I moved here in the mid 1970's they tore it down. They also revamped the area and got rid of the old book stores, thrift shops and funky stores. It was a bit "seedy" with winos and homeless folks but it had a certian "charm"

We do have an area they have cleaned up but they did it for the better and kept the old buildings and charm. Lots of funky stores but it still has the original "urban" flavor.

[porcupine48]

Ottawa Chinatown,still resisting gentrification! 

[Tony D]

On 7/6/2017 at 2:19 PM, Hepcat said:

 

 

What year was this church bazaar?

 

 

Oh well. At least someone didn't use them as a BB gun target, or take a magnifying glass to them.

 

It was sometime in the early 1980s. I also lost my unbuilt Spider-Man and Robin models at the same time.

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of a baker's dozen of the Murphy Anderson covers from my collection that I like the best:

 

Edited February 22, 2018 by Hepcat

[Hepcat]

On ‎2017‎-‎07‎-‎06 at 9:04 PM, Duffman_Comics said:

Hepcat, do you have any of your built models?

 

On ‎2017‎-‎07‎-‎07 at 2:58 PM, Hepcat said:

No. I think I left a Revell Angel Fink and an Aurora Bride of Frankenstein and Mummy at the boarding school in Kennebunkport, Maine I attended for ninth grade. All the others just disappeared somehow. I guess somebody threw them out at some point.

 

 

I do though still have two of the slot cars I built as a kid. Here are some close-up shots of the two. The bigger car on the left is a 1/24 scale Revell Lotus 23 while the smaller one is a 1/32 scale Monogram Ferrari 330 P/LM.

 

 

 

Plus the Cox Spitfire with the .049 Thimble Drome Engine that I rebuilt in 1966 after destroying the body attempting to fly it:

 

 

Sadly I need to replace the plastic cockpit cover which snapped in two when being transported by my sister when I last moved. One of these days I guess....

 

 

Edited December 23, 2017 by Hepcat

[Bomber-Bob]

Good to see you back Posting again Hep. Good stuff as always !

[porcupine48]

Merry Christmas to you,Cowboy and the rest of the gang!

 

[Hepcat]

On ‎2017‎-‎12‎-‎22 at 4:26 PM, Bomber-Bob said:

Good to see you back Posting again Hep. Good stuff as always !

 

Yes, and I've got a few catching up posts to do over the next couple of weeks!

 

 

Edited December 24, 2017 by Hepcat

[Hepcat]

4 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Merry Christmas to you,Cowboy and the rest of the gang!

 

 

Thank you! Here's a relatively recent pic of Cowboy with a friend:

 

 

Cowboy is now the senior member of our current posse of three rounded out by Scout (female) and Lucky (male).

Edited December 23, 2017 by Hepcat

[porcupine48]

Here's our oldest DeeDee a few Christmases ago.

16 now!

[Hepcat]

Stylish! It's her!

 

[porcupine48]

This is what she thought of it!

[AJD]

Great to see you back Hep. I really like the Murphy Anderson books you posted, even though none of them are things I collect. It's always great to see nice examples of things I don't usually pay much attention to. I especially like the Strange Adventures #150 - that has a Weird Science feel to it.

[Hepcat]

On ‎2017‎-‎12‎-‎23 at 5:07 AM, AJD said:

It's always great to see nice examples of things I don't usually pay much attention to.

That's precisely one of the reasons why this board is so compelling. In any event, happy modelling and collecting over the holidays and in the coming year!

Edited December 24, 2017 by Hepcat

[Hepcat]

This past summer and fall I participated in the TSN CFL Fantasy pool. I ended up finishing 62nd overall which is a very credible showing since the total number of participants was I believe well over 15,000.

My best standings in various subleagues were:


TSN 1040 Vancouver 1/196
TSN 1050 Toronto 1/178
The Angry Birds 1/133
TSN 690 Montreal 1/96
2017 CFL All-Stars 1/45
Blue Bombers 1/41
Bomber Fans 2/438
TSN 1290 Winnipeg 2/302
Ticat Fans 2/196
TSN 1150 Hamilton 2/170
Argo Fans 3/218


My most disappointing standings were in these sub-leagues:


Eskimo Empire Podcast 3/79
CF Podcast Network 5/202
The Waggle 5/207
One Empire 7/345
The Den 3/197
TSN 1260 Edmonton 5/358