LAVA LAMPS OOZE WITH POPULARITY GOOFY MONUMENTS SELL FOR $40 TO $300 .(Business)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 16, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Hillary Chura Associated Press

CHICAGO -- With their psychedelic colors and funky insides, lava lamps conjure up visions of love beads and hippies. But sales are growing faster today than in the summer of love.

Fans of the 1960s icon range from adolescents to grandmothers, although it's mostly teens or baby boomers who pay $40 to $300 for a conical bottle filled with top-secret, colored waxy goop, said Christopher Baldovin, vice president of lamp manufacturer Haggerty Enterprises Inc.

``You either look at it and say `Hey, that's COOL,' or `That's the ugliest ...

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