Florida Creator

[Rev.WillWilliams]

Hi all! I'm new here but not new to Creativity. Thanks for letting me register. I have been a creator since 1991 back when Klassen was still spreading Racial Loyalty papers. I still have an original. If anybody has any questions about Creativity feel free to ask! I am in the Gibsonton area if any of you are familiar with that. My goal is to revive the Racial Loyalty paper because I feel having an actual paper in your hand is the best propaganda and way to win people over. I mean, look at the internet, true it reaches millions of people, but I bet most of the die-hard lifelong adherants were turned onto creativity by a fellow creator they met in person or on of the church's books or other paper media. I just don't think the internet is as good as what Klassen was doing in the late 80's and early 90's before he died. In my opinion the people who discovered Creativity on the internet are the "revolving door" types, but the ones that actually had a book or paper in their hand in the privacy of their home, were most one over. I look forward to learning from the elders here and sharing wisdom with the newer Creators!

Gibsonton, near Tampa??

I was RL editor for a while in 1988-89. It took about two weeks to prepare an issue, typing up articles and pulling everything together; then doing an actual paste up (using a glue gun on text cut out with an Exacto knife on a light table) from the larger sheets we'd develop like developing film, on a big, old dinosaur of a machine made by Compugraphic. I'd then take the finished 12-page tabloid size paste-up down to our printer in Georgia, wait a couple of days and go back and pick up like 10,000 copies in bundles of 200 or so. It was an exciting time each month and a great feeling of accomplishment to come back with all those fresh RLs each month, and a bigger thrill to our distributors all over the country and beyond when they'd get their boxes full for distribution. We increased production as demand dictated. Our Detroit unit was distributing 5,000 each month, so I tried to put something from there in each unit, if just a Bouquet (lte) in "Brickbats & Bouquets." At around 6-cents per copy x 10,000, for example, the cost was a reasonable $300. The cost of mailing them was more. I was able to include some red ink on about 4 pages in some of the issues for effect for very little extra cost.


Pre-Internet Compugraphic printer used for RLs

This forum has facsimile copies of many of the older editions of RL archived. If we don't have the one you have, perhaps you can find a tabloid-sized scan machine and send us that one for the collection. That's our month by month Church history,

[A.H. PureGenius]

Thanks to all the replies! Very Impressive history there, RevWillWilliams.  I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall in Klassen's office and seen you guys in action working on the early editions of the Racial Loyalty paper. You guys certainly made history in many peoples lives. It is still an inside joke among some of friends that used to work in the printing industry, I used to jokingly ask them "what are you guys printing there, Racial Loyalty?" and they always used to laugh and say "I wish they were still tossing them in peoples yards." We had no idea who was putting them in our neighborhood yards. We would have shaken their hand and congratulated them.