Monster Vitamins for A Generation of Monster Kids

About this episode

This episode explores the impact of Monster Vitamins and Vincent Price's role in promoting them during the 1970s.

In the early ’70s, horror legend Vincent Price was the perfect pitchman for Monster Vitamins -- and I was the perfect Monster Kid consumer, because my dad worked on that product. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://itcamefromblog.com/2020/10/26/monster-vitamins-for-a-generation-of-monster-kids/

People in this episode

Host: David Weiner

Topics covered

• horror
• nostalgia
• advertising
• childhood
• pop culture

Keywords

• Monster Vitamins
• Vincent Price
• horror legend
• Monster Kid
• 1970s

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Monster Vitamins

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