Hey Alan,
It was Larry Edmunds Bookstore on Hollywood Blvd. I still run
into Phil, the guy who ran it, now and again. Coincidentally he is a relative of
one of my longtime framing customers. As I said the other day, one of the first
posters I bought was Spellbound for $6. Bought 2001 for $3 as it was "newer"
film in 1974. If I'd had better sense, I would have asked for Universal Horror
Classics, but that wasn't my thing! Ahh...........memories!
Sue
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Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:22
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Subject: [MOPO] Who Cares About Your
First Poster??, How I started...
How I started collecting posters:
It is really the story
of two lives and two poster
collections.
I went to USC film school
in the early seventies and
bought movie posters at the local old book store
in
Hollywood. I can't remember the store's name, but Sue
Heim
knows and says she shopped there too. Over 3
years I bought about 50
posters, mainly to decorate
the commune I lived in near the
Coliseum. Since I
was in film school, my choices were good,
posters from
the 1930s - 1950s, movies directed by Hitchcock,
Kubrick,
Ford, Fuller, Lang, Anthony Mann etc,: half
sheets, one sheets and three
sheets. At the time,
they were $1.50 - $5 dollars.
That could
have been the end of the story. I lost
track and forgot about the
posters for 26 years.
About five years ago my father called. My
parents
were cleaning out their attic and found a box of old
movie
posters. My mother was throwing them out. My
father thought it
would be nice to call me before
putting the box in the trash. I was
delighted to
discover the old box. To make a long story short,
it
turned out that old college collection was worth
$8,000, even in fair
condition from rough college
handling - tape marks, holes, etc.
I've
spent the past five years restoring the posters I
wanted to keep,
auctioning the ones I didn't want.
I've upgraded the collection purchasing
some really
nice posters. There are 19 pieces in the
collection
now about half are from the original collection -
all
excellent pieces on linen, framed and nicely
displayed. And I
haven't had to invest any money in
the renewed
collection.
Unfortunately, I now have the top 2/3s of 3 three
sheets
that would be worth good money if they were
whole (2001, The Thing, Sands
of Iwo Jima). The
bottoms have disappeared. Any thoughts on how
to deal
with incomplete 3 sheets?
Also, my favorite is a French one
sheet from The
Baker's Wife (1938) that I bought from
Dominque
Besson. Raimu sitting on a street corner looking like
a
little lost boy. Baker's Wife is my favorite movie.
Alan
Bayersdorfer
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