Archive for the Miscellania Category
Gort
Posted in Miscellania with tags Gort, The Day the Earth Stool Still on July 30, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSModern Day Dragon?
Posted in Cryptids, Miscellania with tags cryptids, winged creature on July 6, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSShot with Pentax KP. 55-300mm @ 300mm.
Happy 100th Dino!
Posted in Miscellania, Westerns with tags dean martin, dino on June 8, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONS
Lightsaber in Godzilla (1954)!
Posted in Kaiju, Miscellania, The King of Monsters with tags Lightsaber in Gojira on March 26, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSWell sort of. When Gojira first appears we see a fellow with a Graflex camera and flash. Luke’s lightsaber was fabricated out of a vintage Graflex light flash, which are now hard to come by.
Riverview Amusement Park
Posted in Amusement Parks, Miscellania with tags Belmont at Western, Chicago, Riverview Amusement Park on March 14, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSWhile digging around on some aerial photographic archives I found an image from 1938 showing Chicago’s now defunct Riverview Amusement Park (1904-1967). You can see some of the amusement park rides (the Chutes and the Bobs) and other features. That’s the north branch of the Chicago River on the top of the image. I also pulled an old map off Pinterest showing site attractions.
Map of Riverview
1937-1947 Aerial Photos of Illinois
Zombie Poison
Posted in Miscellania on March 12, 2017 by MONSTERMINIONSI was cleaning up a bit and found this on one of my book shelves. Of course this was the basis for the Wade Davis best-seller and film “The Serpent and the Rainbow”. However, this is real.
