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« on: January 06, 2011, 03:37:37 AM »
Since I am of the Ancient Blood (heh heh) my introduction was through the teen mags of the late Sixties. When I started watching the show, I think it was sometime around July 1968 I happened to be in the supermarket with my Mom and on a magzine stand there was 16 Magazine and it mentioned DS on the cover. I bought the issue with my allowance and soon was collecting Tiger Beat and some others as well. The mags would mention fan clubs, and in the book Barnabas Collins: a Personal Photo Album which came out, I think, towards the end of '69, a Frid fan club was mentioned and there was a photo of the President. But for whatever reason I never managed to get involved.
When I came back from several years of living in Taiwan in 1986, a friend took me on a jaunt to Baltimore and in a bookshop I stumbled across the Grayson memorial zine, A Gift of Memory. I was stunned to learn she was dead. A year or so later Scrapbook Memories was published and I saw and bought it at Forbidden Planet in NYC. It's hard to believe that was nearly 25 years ago now.
It wasn't until sometime around 1993, I think, that I attended a fan convention, and my visit to the first one I attended was really brief. I missed the fuss around the 1990/91 series because I was living in Beijing for 18 months during those years.
And here we are now in 2011 with all the hoopla around the Depp film... what a strange dance it's been.
G.