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Monster Kid Memories: BIG BUGS & GIANT PESTS!!!

The 1950s were the Atomic Age. Not only was everyone afraid that The Bomb was going to blow the world to smithereens, but that man’s meddling in areas best left unmeddled would unleash a plague of GIANT CREATURES. Whether freed from their long-dormant prehistoric hideouts or hideously mutated into tremendous size, gigantic beasties were the order of the day. And this phase only really lasted from the mid-’50s to until around 1959 or so in America. After that span of time, I think we all realized that we’d much rather be watching imported Japanese movies of men in monster suits beating the holy hell out of other men in monster suits, all done on miniature sets. But that’s a subject for another day…