1967 Montreal Expo Model

[Bryin]

I was wondering if anybody else has one of these with the original graphics on the bottle.  It's one of my favorite lamps.  My partner has one without the graphics.  Speak up if ya got one!

[Modulo '70]

Sadly no but i have an ashtray from expo67 with that logo!

[Bryin]

Does anybody have any information on these?  Were they display pieces?  Were they sold?

[Erin]

Is it this lamp? I don't think anyone here has one...

[Bryin]

That's a photo of my lamp!

[LampHead]

I believe yours is the only know existing model. I know it was made by LL, maybe Jonas can shed more light on it.  Im not sure if they were sold or given away.

Bryin said:

That's a photo of my lamp!

[Erin]

Oops! I didn't know. Is it OK for me to post it? I collect lamp photos for historical reasons. :)

Bryin said:

That's a photo of my lamp!

[dumchidumchi]

very nice looking lamp.  never seen it before.

[Bryin]

Absolutely! 

Erin said:

Oops! I didn't know. Is it OK for me to post it? I collect lamp photos for historical reasons. :)

Bryin said:

That's a photo of my lamp!

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

There is no info known about these, really. When I first saw one on eBay, sans logo, I called it the "Volcano", for obvious reasons. Later, another OGer, Kyle, found one and named it the Apollo. Reason being, the main exhibit of Expo '67's US Pavilion was, or so I'm told, the Apollo capsule, which this lamp resembles in shape and color.

 

This is not the same as the "Psyche-De-Lite" sold to members of the fan club of psychedelic band The Blues Magoos. The Blues Magoos toured with two Imperials, and an illustration shows the band sitting around an Imperial, all holding lamps. One is holding this exact lamp, while the other two are holding the Psyche-De-Lite, which has a much longer, wider cone and has a red base with a gold cap. Notable about the Psyche-De-Lite is that it must have been a great opportunity for marketing, and yet neither the Lava Lite name nor Lava Corp. appears in the ad at all; in fact, it says that they "tour with two giant Psyche-De-Lies." I can only guess the band's promoters or managers paid Lava off handsomely both for getting a custom model and for not calling it Lava Lite; the Blues Magoos were reportedly the first rock band to refer to itself as 'psychedelic', and in the late 60s their management capitalized on that buzzword by shoving the band forward with it, proclaiming just HOW psychedelic they were!

 

As far as I know, only two of these are known, and only one with logo intact. With Expo '67 in Canada, we know Lava-Simplex had a Canadian representative, and I figure this model was made for and sold at the Fair only.

[Bryin]

Hey Jonas - As you know, I have the one with the logo.  My partner has one (that I gave him for Christmas a long time ago) that does not have the logo.  Is his the 2nd or is there a 3rd?  Do you know of anybody that has the Pscyhe-De-Lite?

Jonas Clark-Elliott said:

There is no info known about these, really. When I first saw one on eBay, sans logo, I called it the "Volcano", for obvious reasons. Later, another OGer, Kyle, found one and named it the Apollo. Reason being, the main exhibit of Expo '67's US Pavilion was, or so I'm told, the Apollo capsule, which this lamp resembles in shape and color.

 

This is not the same as the "Psyche-De-Lite" sold to members of the fan club of psychedelic band The Blues Magoos. The Blues Magoos toured with two Imperials, and an illustration shows the band sitting around an Imperial, all holding lamps. One is holding this exact lamp, while the other two are holding the Psyche-De-Lite, which has a much longer, wider cone and has a red base with a gold cap. Notable about the Psyche-De-Lite is that it must have been a great opportunity for marketing, and yet neither the Lava Lite name nor Lava Corp. appears in the ad at all; in fact, it says that they "tour with two giant Psyche-De-Lies." I can only guess the band's promoters or managers paid Lava off handsomely both for getting a custom model and for not calling it Lava Lite; the Blues Magoos were reportedly the first rock band to refer to itself as 'psychedelic', and in the late 60s their management capitalized on that buzzword by shoving the band forward with it, proclaiming just HOW psychedelic they were!

 

As far as I know, only two of these are known, and only one with logo intact. With Expo '67 in Canada, we know Lava-Simplex had a Canadian representative, and I figure this model was made for and sold at the Fair only.

[wizard of ooze]

Here's an ad from my collection of pics for the Psyche-De-Lite......

 

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

In the photo above, the two guys on the right are holding Psyche-De-Lites (note bigger, lighter-colored base & shiny cap) whereas the guy on the left is holding the "apollo" sans logo. No one I know has found a Psyche-De-Lite...yet... WAIT! The ad says it's 11" tall! The bigger copy of that image makes the red bases look taller and wider, but...how tall is yours, Bryin?

 

Kyle has another "apollo", so there must be three. I believe his had the logo but the globe got broken.