Hey, Rich, it was Horace Greeley who said "Go West." Horatio Alger was the
original fictional self-made man.
As for paperbacks, I collected them for years, still have a thousand or so,
with great vintage cover art. But, yeah, they're already just about forgotten.
Dave
www.posteropolis.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Hershenson
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Could this replace collecting actual movie posters?
Forget Horatio Alger and "Dime Novels", in a few more years they'll have
forgotten what "paperbacks" were!
Bruce
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
yep.. Ken is entirely correct and of course, this is pretty much what my
post said
what we do, will be forgotten much like the collectors who paid handsomely
during the 1950s for "Dime Novels" of the 1880s-1910s
you know, those small paperback looking things with western outlaws and
Horatio Alger stories
you can't get 1/10th today of what some of them sold for when they were
heavily collected in the 1940s-50s
and of course, I'm presuming at least some of you know who Horatio Alger is
(Go west young man, go west)
Rich................
At 06:04 AM 12/1/2008, Gerri Farrell wrote:
Hello,
I am not sure why I decided to use this topic to start posting my
thoughts on MOPO...
Here's my philosophy on the hobby of collecting movie posters, toys,
baseball cards, comics, etc. All the items that bring back fond memories from a
time of youth.
Most collectors collecting these artifacts look back to a specific time
in their lives. Possibly from 7 or 8 until 15 or 16 or so. As we get older we
tend to collect from that time period. This may bring us to newer items, but
our passions usually center around that time.
Our childhood is probably not the most important childhood on the planet.
Our kids are going to collect what made their eyes wide when they were 12, not
the things that made our eyes wide when we were 12.
What will they collect from this digital age? Maybe digital files that
you can't relate to. My parents could never relate to the comic books that I
read in the 50s. How many of us are interested in cast iron toys from the turn
of the last century or for that matter silent movies or the theater stars of
the 1880s.
Ken
Just Kids Nostalgia
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