tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post4890424239631769975..comments2024-03-27T12:09:07.950+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DOES THIS PRESS THE BUTTONS OF YOUR MIND?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-17819693672465409982013-03-27T23:50:27.880+00:002013-03-27T23:50:27.880+00:00Glad you finally got to see it. Most of my shoppin...Glad you finally got to see it. Most of my shopping at Johnny's was done in the days of ol' thruppeny bits, not 2ps, but I have fond memories of it all the same.<br /><br />Now that I come to think of it 'though, as we usually visited my grandparents on a Sunday afternoon/evening, Johnny's would probably have been closed. (Unless it was open on Sunday afternoons.) We must have visited on the odd weekday or Saturday, because I remember being in the original shop at least once, but probably my main experience of Johnny's was looking through the window from the street.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-25626575539022527472013-03-27T20:08:01.454+00:002013-03-27T20:08:01.454+00:00Hi - Oh how could I have missed that blog I'm ...Hi - Oh how could I have missed that blog I'm on here pretty regularly - wonderful stuff thank you for doing that, very much appreciated - It brought back the memories - Johnny’s really was a great place for comics as was Rutherglen as I remember a few places with burgeoning spinner racks (none were better than Johnny’s though) - I remember that whilst I was interested in the toys and comics (Marvel, DC, even the odd Seaboard and Warren B&W) most of my school pals visited the place for the 2 club or woodbine (cigarettes) and a match for 2 pence ( I ran with the wild lads in those days lol) - Pretty sure Johnny’s was there till at least 1973 (but could be wrong) loved the fact the lettering was still visible - McScotty :0)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-81366867510270902672013-03-27T00:08:10.313+00:002013-03-27T00:08:10.313+00:00If you type 'Here's Johnny's!' int...If you type 'Here's Johnny's!' into the BLOGGER search box at the top left-hand corner of my page, you should be able to see them. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-47951663784582338722013-03-26T23:43:56.498+00:002013-03-26T23:43:56.498+00:00Hi Kid, yes it was indeed myself you were chatting...Hi Kid, yes it was indeed myself you were chatting to re Johnny's in Rutherglen, a legendary newsagent (no honest it was lol) and sadly I never did see those pictures darn! McScottyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-47554670637229604632013-03-26T01:23:40.213+00:002013-03-26T01:23:40.213+00:00Brilliant reminiscences, McScotty - you should hav...Brilliant reminiscences, McScotty - you should have a blog of your own. (Just so long as you still comment here, of course.) Nice to see that you 'got' what I was trying to say. Was it you with whom I was 'talking' about 'Johnny's' in Rutherglen over on 'Steve Does Comics' a couple of years back? I posted photos of the shop as it was a few years ago, with the old name still visible under new paintwork in response to that 'conversation'. Did you ever see them? Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-12098366915915030852013-03-26T00:35:30.156+00:002013-03-26T00:35:30.156+00:00I love those brief memories associated with items ...I love those brief memories associated with items from the past - I used to think they were perhaps "rosy retrospective" memories ( the remembering of the past as having been better than it really was) but pretty sure they are mostly just good memories for the most part based on factual events ie Mighty World of Marvel No1 (and as such the run of that book) remind me when I lived in Rutherglen (near Glasgow) as I bought the first issue in RS McColls newsagents in that town (despite living for the vast majority of my time as a reader of that book elsewhere) - Ken Reids Frankie Stein reminds me of a time when I lived in Cambuslang (a bit further away from Glasgow) when I was ill and off school (and I vividly recall pouring over that annual) - like you I'm not sure I picked the comic up that regularly until 1966/67 to remember Reids work on this strip at the time but I do recall being given the WHAM annual 1967 in around March (when iIll ) in 1968 (when WHAM was probably finished / merged) but that has coloured my memory of Wham and most Odhams books - Hearing the old David Freeman top 20 jingle (that I think is used on Smooth radio now by Kid Jensen) reminds me of those K-Tel / Ronco greatest hits LPs and 1 LP in particular etc etc - - I was only recently looking through some old 1970's comics and came across a copy of Strange Tales 178 (featuring Warlock) I hadn't seen in years and it took me right back to a house we had in Lanarkshire and to my brother who read that (and only that book) in amongst that bunch of comics was JLA 94 that my dad bought me that takes me right back to a day he ran me to school early as he had a meeting to go to (I lived a bit away from my school at the time) buthe decided to have a chat with me (one of those long father son talks about football that you never forget etc) after that he bought me that comic (I can recall the newsagent as well ) 2 of my most treasured and tattered possessions as both have sadll passed on - err what was the point again ?? McScottyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-40970298283754547512013-03-25T20:46:47.131+00:002013-03-25T20:46:47.131+00:00Baab: Tricking my memory banks? H'mm, well, ye...Baab: Tricking my memory banks? H'mm, well, yes and no. What I was trying to do was imagine a 'what if?' scenario. You know - like if I had never moved from House A (for example), would I be able to view toys, objects, comics, etc., (which I associated with subsequent homes in later years) in an earlier context from the ones I had actually originally experienced them? I found that it was very hard to do.<br /><br />******<br /><br />DSE: That probably happened in my Secondary school, but (fortunately) not in my Primary school. <br /><br /> Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-28036252613819191512013-03-25T19:37:54.380+00:002013-03-25T19:37:54.380+00:00School bogs, ours were a nightmare, I remember the...School bogs, ours were a nightmare, I remember the Izal and the queues at the drinking fountain, they used to like the to keep the kids dehydrated in my school. One of the favourite pranks of certain kids was to smash the head of a kid into the fountain while he was drinking, more that once I'd seen it covered in blood.DeadSpiderEyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07687178085803686186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-21019682218119022512013-03-25T17:53:38.262+00:002013-03-25T17:53:38.262+00:00your situation regarding living in the same houses...your situation regarding living in the same houses at different times coupled with your attempts at tricking your memory banks,is not common!<br /><br />My younger brother attempted to buy the last 'family' home because he believed there was happiness wrapped up in the bricks,he did not succeed.<br />I am quite glad,I would have an emotional breakdown if I had to walk in the door.<br />Not that I associate it with bad memories,there is a mixture of all emotions and situations,Its just that when I think of it as a reality I get really nauseous and have to switch off the memory attack.<br /><br />I am not good with reminiscing.<br />I had made up my mind that when I could no longer do anything other than a bit of thinking,then I would reminisce.<br />And until that time I would be creating the content.<br /><br />i will need to come back to this, I live in a house very similar to the 'family home'.<br />It sits in a similar footprint,faces the galaxy from the same position is only about half a mile away from the first and I am currently re-creating the interior and exterior to be a more efficient,improved version of the former.<br />Oh my.<br />(pondering)<br />baabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388667792167744260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-20834352656807374832013-03-25T01:48:17.313+00:002013-03-25T01:48:17.313+00:00'Smell' is one that sometimes starts me of...'Smell' is one that sometimes starts me off. I remember walking past a shop once and catching a whiff of disinfectant - it instantly reminded me of my primary school toilets which I hadn't thought of in years.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-52200583181476964242013-03-24T23:59:15.173+00:002013-03-24T23:59:15.173+00:00There's a whole bunch of psychology theory abo...There's a whole bunch of psychology theory about association, someone once tried to explain some of it to me. I wasn't really listening, she had nice knockers. It seems though that your -cognitive- memory works better when you're happy, with most people that is. Negative associations, according to her, are usually manifested in a more visceral way because the lizard inside your head remembers but you don't. I suppose that rings true but I was never happy much as a kid. There's a couple of strong associations from childhood that do linger, both linked to Ramsgate funnily enough. You Only LIve Twice, because they played the record constantly at the bumper cars and the sound would carry over the beach in the evenings. Jack Kirby's Kamandi because we couldn't get DC comics at home and they sold 'em at the sea front. Other than that my associations are based on emotional or sensual connotations, things like: taste, smell, the sensation of the sun on your skin.DeadSpiderEyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07687178085803686186noreply@blogger.com