You got the Love

Christopher Lee is of course an icon to us Monster Kids.  “Monster Kids,” or “Monster Boomers,” are those whose childhoods happened sometime between the late 50s and the early 70s and who watched classic horror movies on syndciated TV packages like Shock Theater and Sunrise Theater, read magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and Castle of Frankenstein, and built Aurora model kits of the classic Universal Monsters in their bedrooms (ah, I can still remember the smell of model glue and paint).  Those of you who weren’t kids in the 1960s have no idea just how integral a part of popular culture the classic monsters were back then, far more important to the average child in 1965 than The Transformers or G.I. Joe were to kids in the 80s.