{"id":18154,"date":"2010-02-28T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18154"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:24:59","slug":"the-place-where-dreams-were-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/28\/the-place-where-dreams-were-made\/","title":{"rendered":"The Place Where Dreams Were Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

All I was looking for was a clip of Larry “Bud” Melman greeting passengers at the Port Authority bus terminal with hot towels<\/a>, but you know the way things work once you get to YouTube. I of course had to click on one of the recommended videos—Johnny Carson’s final TV appearance<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And because that second clip turned out to have been posted by Alan Light—no, not the Spin magazine editor-in-chief Alan Light<\/a>, but rather the Alan Light who founded The Buyer’s Guide to Comics Fandom<\/i><\/a>—I ran across the fascinating (for those of us who bleed four-color ink) video below.<\/p>\n

It turns out that on June 18, 1977, World Color Press held a celebration it called “Magazineland USA.” World Color Press, located in Sparta, Illinois, printed all of the comic books at the time, and when the company threw open its doors for a tour, Light was there with his 8MM sound camera.<\/p>\n

When I press my nose close to the screen, I swear I can smell the ink.<\/p>\n