Thread: Nostalgic memories renewed

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So I had a pleasant surprise while putting up my mask collection.

I have some of those old Cooper style plastic mask/vinyl costume combos in boxes and cello that I placed into huge ziploc baggies and then pinned them to my wall in the hobby room.

While I stood back to admire my work I got a sudden memory flashback *cues music*

I remember going to a shop that had hundreds of these types of costumes in thin plastic bags hanging on hooks (but were hidden because the boxes were lined up close together) on the walls.

I must have have been around 3 or 4 but I remember this! I never remembered this before so I am glad to get a pleasant memory

I am inspired to get more of these costumes, at least find a Tweety costume like I had when i was little in the 80's.

What pared nicely with the boxed sets are some Japanese masks in the same style I have hanging nearby, looks so cool. My fiance said the wall looks creepy, lol.

sounds like an intriguing wall. your fiance and my hubby sound a lot alike. lol.

Some are creeped -out by any likeness of animal or human forms/shapes.
Haven't we all been startled at least once by a manniquin sneaking into a room (we forgot it was there) and quickly peripheral vision tells the brain:"Look Out! It's an escaped serial-killer!"
I have never forgotten my childhood memory of the Triad Toy Store on Broadway in Rockford, Illinois.
My relatives just lived around the corner a few short blocks away, I would have $10.oo to spend for a week of visiting them, and stand in absolute awe of All the skinny , brightly printed boxes racked and stacked from floor to ceiling of plastic model kits selling for under a dollar each!
Today those same kits sell for $80-$120. Unopened usually.
The "Art" was stimulating to a kid, the actual kits were usually very crude by later standards and often inaccurate "models".
The Aurora Mig 17!?? There was never a plane that looked like that! Pretty green plastic though, still have it!