Remember when you were eight and staying up late on Saturday nights?
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Portland, Oregon. The mid ’70s .
If you could manage to keep your eyes open until 11:30 p.m., you would have the pants scared off you watching Sinister Cinema. Victor Ives was the host and he would show all kinds of old horror films. Sure, most of them were kind of hokey by todays standards, but when you are 8 years old (and it’s the mid ’70s) they scared you good! Once a year they would bust out the Universal Classics; Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Dracula, and the Mummy.
Crazy how you were suppose to be afraid of the monster, but I always felt so sorry for Frankenstein’s creation, poor Boris Karloff. Original artwork by the author
About Sean Croghan
Sean Croghan is a pizza cook, artist, musician living in Portland Oregon. A life long resident of the city, Croghan finds interest in the surrounding beauty of the region, as well as all things archaic including, yet not limited to, rock and roll and soul music, Fleischer Brothers and early Warner Brother cartoons, 19th century literature, southern u.s. folk artists and modernism, Gary Panter and Cy Twombly. Constantly one step behind, Croghan finds respite in watching the grass grow and the crows' hi jinx
