Attack of the Retro Room!
Let’s take a break from random prose and serve up a quiche of cheesy goodness! As promised, here are a few pictures of my beginning efforts at a Retro Room, a four-walled time capsule celebrating my heritage of 8-bit computers and 1970’s Saturday afternoon local television.
In case you thought I was joking about black lagoon creatures and 50-foot women, note the posters that surround my Commodore 128D workstation:
The back wall. La Dolce Vita and the Star Trek painting don’t quite fit the theme here, but She Who Must Be Obeyed has forbidden movie memorabilia in the rest of the house. Unless we can resolve this, the Fellini and Roddenberry classics will be keeping some strange company:
The home computers of the 1980’s were designed to connect to televisions if one didn’t have a dedicated monitor. As an unintended benefit, the monitors could double as a television if one got creative with a VCR. Here’s my DVD/VCR combo unit feeding a video display to the Commodore monitor, just as I used to do with a TV tuner twenty years ago:
Of course, the Commodore is still fully functional as a computer, with its 128 kilobytes of RAM and assortment of 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy drives:
Equipping and decorating the Retro Room will be an ongoing project. Stay tuned!
Good! I’ve been awaiting the pics. Cool posters. And I’ll admit that I like a lot of those cheesy 50’s films like, “Attack of the 50 ft woman”. And one can’t go wrong with Star Trek.
gypsyscarlett
September 27, 2009 at 12:44 am
Hi gypsy,
Setting this up has been a fun diversion from all the hassles of moving. There’s still plenty of work to be done here and elsewhere, but I’m looking forward to a chance to just enjoy the room eventually.
Edward Trumbo
September 29, 2009 at 6:07 am
Awesome posters, Ed. How fun for you to make that space your own. You should put one up of the “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” LOL.
Jewel/Pink Ink
September 30, 2009 at 9:31 am
Hi Jewel,
I have a few lobby cards still on order — 1950’s epics like “Plan 9 from Outer Space” and “Robot Monster”. “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” would be a great addition. I remember Elvira herself was rendered speechless by that one!
Edward Trumbo
September 30, 2009 at 10:43 am
Am I totally missing out because I never saw, “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” ?
gypsyscarlett
October 6, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hi gypsy,
Yes, your cinematic education is incomplete until you’ve experienced “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”. Especially the theme song, which I believe challenges “The Blob” for the greatest horror movie theme song of all time.
Edward Trumbo
October 6, 2009 at 2:16 pm