{"id":14647,"date":"2015-08-28T05:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:37:27","slug":"the-kirk-hammett-collection-of-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-kirk-hammett-collection-of-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"the Kirk Hammett collection of monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love traveling through SFO’s Terminal 2, because the airport have their own “museum” display cases and I’ve rarely seen an exhibition there I didn’t like (and I’ve seen over a dozen to date). This one of mostly 1960s-era monster ephemera from the collection of Kirk Hammett was especially intriguing, and triggered in me the need to re-watch Monster Squad<\/a> for the first time since it was released in 1987:<\/p>\n

\"Classic <\/a>
Classic Monsters, the Kirk Hammett Collection <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Frankenstein <\/a>
Frankenstein monster head speaker, “Great for ghoulish fun!..Anywhere!” <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Frankenstein <\/a>
Frankenstein monster bot <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Frankenstein <\/a>
Frankenstein monster collection: Mystery Game, 1963; Flivver, 1964; tricky walker (#27), 1960s; oil painting by numbers (top-right), 1963; puzzle (#28), 1960s <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Frankenstein <\/a>
Frankenstein monster speaker box <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mummy <\/a>
Mummy collection: chariot, 1964; puzzle, 1960s; wall plaque, 1960s <\/div> <\/div>
\"wolf <\/a>
wolf man collection: <\/div> <\/div>
\"prop <\/a>
prop heads <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Revenge <\/a>
Revenge of the Creature, prop head, 1955, by Bud Westmore and Millicent Patrick <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"the <\/a>
the Creature from the Black Lagoon collection: Mystery Game, 1963; glow-in-the-dark jigsaw puzzle, 1974; creature wallet, 1963 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The Mole People, prop hand and head, 1956, by Bud Westmore <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Classic <\/a>
Classic Monsters, the Kirk Hammett Collection <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Classic <\/a>
Classic Monsters, the Kirk Hammett Collection <\/div> <\/div>
\"the <\/a>
the Bride of Frankenstein guitar <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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I love traveling through SFO’s Terminal 2, because the airport have their own “museum” display cases and I’ve rarely seen an exhibition there I didn’t like (and I’ve seen over a dozen to date). This one of mostly 1960s-era monster ephemera from the collection of Kirk Hammett was especially intriguing, and triggered in me the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[192,1270,671],"series":[],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-collection","tag-monster","tag-museum"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ngg_featured\/IMG_20150522_134522.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-3Of","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17459,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions\/17459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}