GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS Vintage Newspaper Ads (1956)

 

Here are two local newspaper ads for KING OF THE MONSTERS, both from the same city.  This first one is important because it gives us the date:  September 26, 1956 (and the ad tells us it's the very end of the run for this film).  Below that, an orphaned snippet of an article where you can tell that a guy got in trouble for owning and using a police siren.  You mean going around sounding off and pretending to be a police car is frowned upon?

Next, it's "American Legion Party Night" that teases: 

?A BIG CHANGE?

But the smart people that night were at the Sky Vue (which was a DRIVE-IN, how cool is that?), seeing this movie.  There's good news and bad:  first, the good--two color cartoons are guaranteed!  Takes the edge offa the death and destruction a bit.  Now, the bad--it's a double feature! It's another abominable snowman movie, but.....it's just a Jerry Warren film.  Too bad.

Now, the smaller of the two ads, from the MALCO theatre.  You'll note the snow on the theatre logo; this denoted the theatre was equipped with AIR CONDITIONING, which was used as a draw to pull people away from their television sets.  Good grief though, who would've wanted to miss KING OF THE MONSTERS? I'd have been there a few times a week.

And now to the real head-scratcher.  Take a look at the text added to this piece.  It's a dumpster fire of elbow typing.  We've looked at lots of ad slicks that were already available for this movie, and yet somebody decided to hand type this mess.  It's just baffling!  "A monstrous seat beast" is my favorite part.  

I'd of course watch that movie, too.