I haven't read the article, but I agree with you, Josette. I lived in a development outside a small town in northern Maryland, and when I was a child in the mid to late 1960s, I remember there being multiple phones in most people's homes. I never had one in my bedroom, but we had one in our finished basement and I'd go down there when I wanted to gab with a friend about the latest movies we'd been watching on TV or the latest monster mags we'd found in the local shop, McIlhenny's.

G.

I love today's photo. Miss Hoffman at her most insidiously reassuring. Of course Sam and Joe don't really buy any of it, but from what I recall, she manages to talk them into not rocking the boat for a while longer.

G.

Hi KMR, I bet you're right about the mirror. Looking at the shot again (thanks MB for including it in your comment), I suddenly flashed back to the huge mirror Julia had hanging over her lab in 1840. (Whenever I watch those episodes now, I get totally distracted wondering just how Julia got that thing up there. A mirror that size would have been extremely heavy. Did Julia have levitation powers she never told anybody about??)

I remember reading decades ago in KLS's very first book about how they did a lot of shots in mirrors on the set, so I'm sure you're correct about this.

Thanks!

G.

Cavada! La Divina!

Thanks, MB!

G.

Aunt Hannah! Perfect for a gloomy Sunday afternoon in Collinsport.

Angelexis was so totally psycho. Fun times!

G.

Nice to see Robert Rodan and Craig Slocum featured today. Neither actor gets much discussion let alone positive attention from fans. Both were important figures in the infamous 1968 storyline, often criticized but because it was my first DS storyline, still my sentimental favorite (I now think of the PT 1970 storyline as the best of the Barnabas storylines with the most sophisticated writing, but even that had its moments... the original Laura Collins 1966-67 storyline was probably the finest ever produced on the show in terms of pacing and story coherence).

G.

Fans,

A friend pointed me yesterday to this blog that a DS fan aged mid-20s started for Strange Paradise. This is one of those blogs where you have to scroll way, way, WAY down to the bottom of the screen to read the initial entry, and then scroll slowly upwards to read each one in succession.

https://www.tumgir.com/michelles-garden-of-evil#!/yxbk7IFbRuy6y

A caveat is that there seem to be incessant pop-ups on this site, and my standard pop-up blocker doesn't appear to work for them. My advice is DO NOT CLICK, EVER, ON ANY POP-UPS, and IMMEDIATELY close out any other pages that may open up.

It's too bad that the site is hosted on this rather whacky space (presumably founded as a competitor to Tumbler, and I wonder how long it will last) because this fan is also a costume historian and she has interesting comments about the clothing, hair, makeup and other details of the 17th century flashback sequences.

G.

Great photos. I think I have that magazine in a box somewhere.

G.