Perhaps it's a photograph of Mr. Kong when he was trekking through New York.

The way I see this design is it'supposed to look like an old photograph. You know how you'll go through you parent's or grandparent's photo albums and they have old pictures of them on vacation or at the beach. (OK, so I personally have never seen one of those albums, but I've seen them in the movies.) As for the year choice, I don't know. From what I read, King Kong dies in '32.

Sorry to over-talk the subject, I know I practically bored myself to tears.

maybe he didn't die, and this is actually an ad for national lampoons king kong 2 - new york vacation...

The original Kong took place in the 20's or 30's... the 70's seems way off and ruins the shirt for me.

um, yeah, and that's why King King looks older and is going back for a visit... 50 years later... isn't that the whole point of the design?

who cares? the only problem i can foresee is a bunch of pedants hassling you about this when you wear it. I know i've gotten my fair share of annoying questions from wearing "pandamonium" and "follow it"

i regret wearing pandamonium from time to time. I think one person has ever gotten it.

It's 76 cause that's when Dino De Laurentis made the 1st remake. And then obviously Peter Jackson made the 2nd remake last year. So i guess it's less of Kong fondly remembering New York in 76, and more of us fondly remembering kong 76, which was crap. So maybe i'm reading too much into it... :p

"um, yeah, and that's why King King looks older and is going back for a visit... 50 years later... isn't tht the whole point of the design?"

thats a good point EFDisaster, makes sense with the movie from the 20's or whenever, but he still couldnt be "going back for a visit" if he died...
i'm pretty sure he dies in all 3 remakes

shhhh, you'll upset the children, with this death-talk

it's just a silly shirt design. it isn't a highly symbolic work meant for weeks of debate. what does it matter if king kong died in the movie? this isn't a Kong mythology website.

i didn't consider it to be king kong

awww, bubblebee, it's ok if you DON'T paticipate in a discussion (not debate) once in a while.
it doesn't "matter" if he died. i was just wondering. deal with it and get over yourself. that's what public websites like this are for. the great thing is, we can discuss anything we like and you don't get to decide what that is : )

i think this is one of those tees that seems really clever at first glance, but as you lightly scrape its musky gorrila surface, it chips away and the concept gets very hazy and nonsensical. But then not everyone demands that their shirts have three levels of comedy like i enjoy on my threadless tees. This one's just kinda abstract and goofy, and that's how some people like their shirts! More power to em' as i spend my ten bucks elsewhere.

this is OBVIOUSLY a gorilla that had one to many beers...his friends dressed him up as a tourist and dropped him off outside New York city. the 1976 stands for $19.76...the price of the outfit. -memories, priceless!

this is the prequel. come on now ;-)

Robsoul, man I love your designs...
and the prequel thing would make sense if the title wasnt " memories...."

ha, I was just kiddding locall. Prequels are for George Lucas.

Maybe I should have done Peking Man in..was it set in Japan? I can't remember but that was an awesome movie anyway.

Just watched a documentary on GIGANTO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantopithecus

People, people! It was a movie. You don't think actors actually die in movies do you? Come on now. This gorilla obviously is Chester Pecslap, the actor that played Kong in the 70's remake. He's reminiscing his days of touring the Big Apple while on the shoot for the film.