Hi All
Its been a while but I am still working on zepellin and still collecting as many screen accurate toys from the Higbees window scene that I can find. I had the great pleasure of displaying many of my ACS items at the Mahoning Drive In in Lehighton PA. They were doing a 2 day Christmas in July showing of ACS and White Christmas. Special guest Zack Ward was there live both days to do signings and photos. The people at the drive in know I am a huge ACS fan and asked me to do a photo op set. I took many of my real antiques and props that I have made and recreated the Parker family living room. It was going to just be for the patrons to take photos on but Zack was so impressed with the set that he did special photo ops on it with patrons. I also had the great pleasure of being his driver for two days to get him to media interviews and his hotel. The interior living room set includes a lot of props some are easy to see others more subtle. There is the wall phone which when picked up has the screaming Schwartz mom on it. A real Wesinghouse 780x radio, bar set on top of radio along with plant, ashtray and ralphies glasses. The leg lamp I made, a red ryder bbgun in corner. Watering can, glue bottle, shades, curtains window props, a "one too many" outlet setup that had sparking lights in it, Fireplace, table that I built with flickering flame, A real LOOK magazine as seen in movie, fly swatter, blue bowling ball, bunny suit gift, tree with replica star that was shown how to be made by another poster on this forum and othe incidentals. The outdoor stuff we did by our car was a mock HIGBEES display with real screen accurate 1940s toys and a playful table set with a hound dog getting ready to "steal the meal". Oh I also made my own Ralphie White Cowboy outfit from scratch! We had a lot of fun building these sets and meeting Zack was just great too. I have many pictures of the week end and have included some here. - John