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| Check-in table in the lobby of the Holiday Inn in Willliamsburg, VA |
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| Gene Carpenter (green shirt) talking with fellow dealer Bob Carman (yellow shirt). |
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| Here's 1960s movie actress Rosemary Forsyth posing with a photo of her with James Stewart and Glenn Corbett from Shenadoah, 1965. I liked her in that movie and another 1965 movie The Warlord with Charlton Heston. Rosemary signed a photo from each of those movies for me. |
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| Here's 1970s-1980s movie actor Bo Hopkins with a photo of him with Ernest Borgnine from The Wild Bunch, 1969. I got him to sign my photo from that movie that shows him with the other Wild Bunch gang members, most of whom are dead now. Bo and I both agreed that Sam Peckinpah was a great Western movie director. Bo is from South Carolina and I told him it was refreshing to hear an actor in movies with an authentic Southern accent as opposed to the phony accents used by non-Southerners that are usually picked to play Southerners in movies. Bo agreed with me that listening to fake Southern accents in movies was irritating.
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| The Solar Guard is a fan club devoted to 1950s science fiction television shows like Tom Corbett Space Cadet. Before joining the Solar Guard, Cadet Kane served a career in another aerospace organization, the United States Air Force (as did your narrator, the Leader.) I enjoyed talking with Henry about 1950s science fiction movies, especially the George Pal movie When Worlds Collide. Henry advised the Leader to read the Philip Wylie novel the movie was based on, as well as the sequel After Worlds Collide.
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| Solar Guard member Mike Turco operating the controls of a space ship cockpit that he designed. This cockpit is always on display at collector shows that members of the Solar Guard attend.
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| Solar Guard members with Danny Hunt |
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| Henry Kane, Mike Turco, Danny Hunt, Ed Pippin, Linda Rowe. Danny Hunt (yellow sweater) was a child actor in the famous 1953 science fiction movie Invaders From Mars. Mr. Hunt was a guest at the show signing photos and selling DVD copies of his movie. The Leader complained about not being able to find a decent copy of Invaders From Mars on DVD. Cadet Pippin advised the Leader that copies of Mr. Hunt's DVDs (50th anniversary edition from Image Entertainment) were the best available. But Mr. Hunt's price was a bit steep and the Leader prefers to buy the same DVD on Amazon.com for $8.05 if need be.
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| The Leader's favorite comic book dealer Gene Carpenter showing off two Look magazines with some Western TV stars fondly remembered by the Leader: Clint Walker from Cheyenne, Chuck Connors from The Rifleman and Ward Bond from Wagon Train. The Leader has never any episodes from Wanted Dead Or Alive with Steve McQueen. These magazines belonged to Gene's fellow dealer Bill who was set up next to him.
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| Gene Carpenter with the Hyco Kid |
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| Gene Carpenter showing copies of the Western comic book Red Ryder to Michael J. Lair, a.k.a. the Hyco Kid. |
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| Gene Carpenter with the Hyco Kid |
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| Gene Carpenter posing in front of his table with the Hyco Kid who is holding one of his publicity photos. |
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| G.L. Williams of Mechanicsville, VA hand makes and sells leather guns belts and holsters and also sells replicas of 19th Century Colt pistols. Here he is as archaeologist adventurer Indiana Jones with replicas of Jones's leather jacket, hat and bull whip.
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| B-Western movie collectibles dealer Bob Carman from Rockledge, Fl. The Leader was intrigued by Bob's large cardboard display of three movie legends: John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.
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| Sam Austill and C.P. Lockart |
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| Sam Austill of Calhoun, KY and C.P. Lockhart of Roanoke, VA showing off some of their Western collectibles with Roy Rogers.
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| Jim Gaylen and his wife Dot from Hopkinsville, KY, posing with the big coffee table book The RKO Story. The Leader has this book in his film book collection. |
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| Jim Gaylen with a collectible book about John Wayne.
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| Jim Hurd from Cortland, OH. Jim is a major autographs dealer that the Leader has seen at previous shows but never had the chance to talk to. Here is with posing with autographs of one of the Leader's favorite Western movie directors, the legendary John Ford. Also a photo of John Wayne and Ward Bond from one of Ford's best known Western movies, The Searchers, 1956.
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| Jim Hurd with two of his most expensive autographs. These are rare autographs from two of America's most famous Civil War era generals: the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the Union general George Armstrong Custer.
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| The Leader's favorite collectibles show promoter is Martin Grams, Jr. Marty promotes one of the best TV and movie collectibles shows in the country, The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Con . Marty is also a prolific writer on American pop culture. Here is posing with two books he didn't write but had for sale at the show about two TV and movie stars the Leader likes: Fess Parker and Jeffrey Hunter. The middle book about the 1960s TV series The Twilight Zone was written by Marty and is his best known book. It is also the Leader's favorite TV series. The Leader mentioned that he lost his autographed photo of Shirley Jones and a Time Tunnel TV photo at Marty's last Nostalgia Con. Marty said somebody turned them in to the show's lost and found department and Marty said he would hold them for me until the next Nostalgia Con.
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| David Hawk of Norfolk, VA as Don Diego de la Vega a.k.a. Zorro. I saw a few of the Walt Disney Zorro TV episodes in the early 1960s and David explained to me how the effect was accomplished of Zorro using his sword to carve the letter Z in the shirts worn by his opponents in sword fights.
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| David Hawk & G.L. Williams |
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| Indiana Jones with a Bowie knife about to give Zorro a free tonsillectomy.
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| David Hawk & G.L. Williams |
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| Now the tables are turned!
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| Late Thursday afternoon with most of the celebrity guests and dealers having called it a day. C.P. Lockhart (in red shirt) is still hanging in there with his fellow dealer. The Leader imagines they are talking about Western movies and TV shows.
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| Late Thursday afternoon with the few dealers left in the room resting a bit. From left to right: Bob Carman and his cardboard versions of Indiana Jones, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart. Also Bill and Gene Carpenter.
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