Re:L Ron? (Score 1)

Lo about 1999 or 2000 a group of us fans went on the tour of his house in L.A. Sat in his living room on the floor and listened to him tell us stories, wandered up and down stairs and all around the house looking and a veritable treasure trove of Sci-Fi memorabilia, paintings, props, brickabrack and the books- gods... the sheer number of books! Even got to scrabble around under the house in the "graveyard" or whatever he called it, just a dirt cellar really, but full of ghouls,zombies, eerie stuff and gods know what props from old movies. Wicked fucking cool.

I sat there - watching him wave his hands around as he talked about old movies and people he knew and props he had collected and realized that the sheer volume of things in that house made it like the Smithsonian of Sci-Fi. Could have spent a lifetime in there and still not seen everything.

Left a $20 in the basket by the front door as we left. Felt like the world was a shabbier place knowing all that work he put into collecting it would go to waste, split up and carted off when he passed. You could really tell he loved collecting it, loved telling the stories about it. Glad I went. Sad it's gone. Wonder where all those original paintings from the covers of Amazing Stories and similar wound up...?

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