David Parr Would Be Proud
My Good friend David Parr would have been proud of me tonight. I have been meaning to do this for some time and when I rolled in tonight I finally decided the time had come.
The story is that I have had in my possesion, for some time now, a complete set of very rare English bubble gum cards from the 1960's. These used to belong to my father who passed them on to his younger brother (my uncle Terry) about 20 years ago. as a kid I used to love looking at these cards when tinkering around my grandparents house at the weekends and such.
When I moved to London to study at LAMDA the cards were passed on to me and I have always vowed to put them all up in sequence on a wall. Up until we bought this house I didn't really ever have a wall that deserved to accomodate them.
I have to say that they look very special indeed up and around the window of my study.
Why should David (food for the Brain) Parr be so proud? These cards depict old Horror movie scenes. Frankenstien, The Phantom of the Opera, the Creature from teh Black Lagoon etc. I now have many of David's geroes up on the wall at long last. Lon Chaney and Jnr and Boris Karloff to name a few. Funnily enough there are no images from Dracula, so no Bela L to speak of. I love these cards. They have a still from a film on the front, with an amusing newspaper cartoon style caption below it and a corny horror themed joke on the back.
This collection and the fact that I hung them all up on the wall of my study is classic 'Man in a Boys World behaviour BTW.
Night night for now.
posted by Dean Atkinson at
10:50 PM
1 Comments:
I am proud of you, Dean. As mentioned previously, I have lately been revisiting my past and finding new appreciation for the influences that brought me to where I am now. It's especially fascinating to go back and reread favorite books from my childhood. For instance, after some searching around in my parents' house, I found A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by Denis Gifford. I received this book as a gift when I was ten years old, and I remember studying the pictures in it over and over again. This and other important books from my past are no longer hidden away in boxes, they are on my bookshelf where they belong.
By the way, the reason there is no Bela Lugosi trading card in your set from the '60s is that Lugosi's family successfully sued to prevent companies from using Bela's likeness without permission. Up to that point, Lugosi's Dracula image had been all over toys and lunchboxes.
Anyway, good for you for keeping those cards and for displaying them in your home. It's important to appreciate where we came from, and it's even better when we share that appeciation with others.
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