Holiday Road!

“Why aren't we flying? Because getting there is half the fun!” ~ Clark Griswold

Accompanied by their children (Dana Barron, Anthony Michael Hall), Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), are driving from Illinois to a California amusement park called Wally World. 1983 was the year.

For fun, I found this fake magazine insert on the internet today and thought I’d share it with all of you. You can almost hear Eugene Levy showing this ad to Clark just before he pushed, er rolled it off the lot.

Furd 1983 Wagon Queen Family Truckster. Twice the headlights, 4x the woodgrain. Half the mileage. If you think you hate it now - just wait till you drive it.

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Ricou Browning was a Florida-based film maker. Originally a student at FSU and a life guard at Wakulla Spring when acquaintance Newt Perry hired him to show around Universal executives, then scouting locations for "Creature From the Black Lagoon." They eventually hired Browning to play Creature (Gill Man) for the underwater scenes in all three Creature films. He parlayed that experience into more acting, producing and directing, usually for Ivan Tors Studios. His credits include "Flipper", "Thunderball", "Never Say Never Again", and television's "Sea Hunt."

Creature from the Black Lagoon is a monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes. The film was released in the United States on March 5, 1954. From the State Archives of Florida