Gee Wally, Why’d It Take Two Decades?
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
One benefit of reading this website is that you get to witness history in the making. Last year I displayed my collection of Leave It To Beaver cast autographs up to that point, which can be seen here. At that time I lamented that I had been unsuccessful at obtaining the signature of Tony Dow, the actor who played Wally in the series. Through-the-mail attempts had been thwarted and even an attempt to purchase a signature yielded me an unfortunate forgery. Read the rest of this entry »
The culmination of the fifth intenational Sons of the Desert convention in Valley Forge (actually King of Prussia), Pennsylvania came on the evening of Tuesday, July 29, 1986. This final banquet was quite a memorable one as it involved not only a recreation of Toyland from the 1934 Laurel and Hardy film Babes in Toyland, but featured celebrities from the original film itself! 
Heather Langenkamp was best known for her role as Nancy Thompson in the ever-popular and imaginative slasher film Nightmare on Elm Street. She went on to star in the franchise’s first real sequel to follow the film’s storyline (discounting the idiotic second installment), Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. And then she appeared again in the series’ most interesting installment Wes Craven’s New Nightmare in which she actually played herself being stalked by the spirt of good old Freddy Kruger. 
The fun of the fifth International Sons of the Desert convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, continued on Monday, July 28. Time had virtually stood still for me and the days really had no meaning at this point. True to the anthemic song of the Sons, I in fact was ‘having the time of my life’ amidst all the friends, both new and old, camaraderie, memorabilia, films, purchases, events, autograph gathering, scholarly overtones, and of course heavily social undertones.