Howdy.. Searched killjoy but no threads came... From what I know, the " killjoy was here" and face was first started by US soldiers who ventured where no others had previously or few would likely venture. I first sought out killjoy after using the facilities in a Montana gas station. Was very surprised to learn what little I know...Any stories or info would be interesting to me and others who may not be up to par. Cheers.
Without too much thought.. - The story i that i sorta recall was that Kilroy (thanks ) would inspect remote areas on a ship. Might have heard that the men who were on their way to battle would see these remote signs while investigating the ship en route. While disembarked they would scrawl the same mark when in some lousy area taking cover. Or was it that demolition crews sent to demolish d day obstacles before the invasion wrote this phrase in very dangerous locations. And then the odd guy in remote locations see's the mark and is comforted by something that reminds him of home?.. Just curious.....Now to check on killjoy?
I ran across an interesting piece of trivia concerning "Kilroy was here". When the Fort Knox depository was completed and the gold started moving into the depository rooms, it was 1937. When the gold was removed for re-weighing many years later (in the sixties I think), graffiti was discovered behind the gold, on walls that hadn’t been seen since 1937. Many were just signatures of the workers who had completed the walls, and even workers who had moved the gold in and covered the walls behind the gold in 1937. And guess what was on the middle of one of the walls, at about knee level! Nothing less than "Kilroy was here" with the fingers, nose and head sticking over a fence. While there are many stories as to how that came about as a sign of "being here", it most certainly existed well before WW2, since it was found in that vault which hadn't been open to "graffiti" since 1937.
