Being 31 years old and now living in Mason City, IA, it was a real treat stumbling across this website and reliving a ton of childhood memories. The opening music to Creature Feature and all the other recordings you had opened the floodgates to a ton of memories that I had forgotten through time. I even remembered when I owned a 45-rpm record of that opening music that my friends and I used to scare the younger neighbor kids on those scary Halloween nights. But alas, I no longer own that record or any other of the Creature Feature merchandise that I had as a youngster.

I did have the privilege of meeting John Jones as a youngster. My father owned the Mermaid Lounge at 33rd and Leavenworth during the 1970s and John was a regular. Until I was seven or eight, I always gave "the Doctor" a cautious eye because he always kept a "scary" eye on me and gave me that "Aa aah" while winking to my dad. They both loved to see me scurry off to back of the bar in sheer terror. By the time I was nine, I finally got the nerve to sit by John and talk with him. Afterwards, he was never scary when I saw him at the bar, but every bit as scary on television.

After KMTV moved to its present location at 108th and Mockingbird Dr., my dad coincidentally closed his bar on Leavenworth and opened Sam's Lounge at 96th and Mockinbird Dr. However, John and the KMTV gang spent most of their time hanging out at the Mai Tai Lounge across the street from the station, but John would occasionally come to my dad's bar. It was always a treat when he came in the door.

I was saddened with the passing of John back in 1988. It's hard to believe that it's coming on nine years since his death. When I think back to my childhood, one of my top memories will be staying up late on Saturday night to see what Dr. San Guinary and Igor were going to do. It would usually end up being the first topic of conversation come Mondays at school.