tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15624230.post8753089334376165983..comments2023-12-24T18:29:26.864-05:00Comments on BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Tarzan Reunion-1975Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15624230.post-49688324530231785422016-06-03T11:02:54.435-04:002016-06-03T11:02:54.435-04:00Born in 1962, I grew up during the Great Nostalgia...Born in 1962, I grew up during the Great Nostalgia Craze of the mid-60s to the mid-70s. So much of the pop culture I consumed while growing up was really the pop culture of my parents (and before)! I read Doc Savage and the Shadow and G-8 and His Battle Aces. I watched movie serials like Flash Gordon and Tom Mix. I read compilations of Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy newspaper comics. I listened to The Shadow and the Green Hornet and the Lone Ranger and Fibber Magee and Molly and Gangbusters every week on WRVR-FM, and collected old time radio on cassette tapes.<br /><br />I lived on old movies – William Powell and Universal horror and jungle pictures and Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. I dreamt about King Kong. I listened to Joe Franklin and had 78s and loved Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee and Russ Colombo. I was so … excited about OTR premiums and vintage toys and pulps and the whole experience of growing up in the 30s and 40s.<br /><br />I read Batman and Superman comic reprints from the 40s,and marveled at Sax Rohmer novels. My interest in the then-current culture was marginal at best … it was like being a displaced person in time.<br />I think the Nostalgia Craze of the era is an underreported phenomenon, and wish someone would do a comprehensive story on it. Maybe you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com