Alan -wow !! great memories of Your dada
thanks for share! a wonderful story!!

Your Dad ..I bet he loved seeing you happy and learning about movie posters,,

enjoy and thanks..''''
best always < Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977



On 2021-04-27 10:44, Alan Adler wrote:
Hi Tom -

Always love your stories and your big heart - eyeballs and ears are
important - but your big heart is what makes you the angel that you
are.

So here are some stories for you.

My father was my greatest mentor.
He loved movies and bragged that he used to go see 5 movies a day
during the depression when he was supposed to be looking for work.

When I was 8 the family was riding from NC to Baltimore to visit my
grandmother. It was an 8 hour ride. We got 30 minutes out of town and
were going through
Greensboro and Godzilla has just opened. I cried so hard to see that
movie my mother and father pulled over and waited in the car while I
went in and watched it. Came out, got in the car and we continued our
all night drive to Baltimore.

When I started to show interest in movie posters he’d take me to
different theaters and appraise my technique for asking the managers
for them. Studied the grip of my handshake - a good handshake and
looking someone in the eye always makes the best impression. I was 9
years old.

My father used to wake me up from a dead sleep and say “the window
cards are on the poles tonight’. We’d get into his black Buick and
drive down the road. He’d stop at one pole after the other and I would
take a little stack of them down. This was so long ago I don’t even
remember the titles.

When I found rooms of posters as I got older - or a big pile of them
in the trash, I’d call him, he’d leave his ladies dress shop, rent a
big Uhaul trailer and attach it to his then Cadillac, come to me, hire
a couple guys and clear a space at his storage building to safely
store them.

When he went to buying trips, I would tell him what theater I wanted
something from - let’s say when the first Cinerama film came out -
Windjammer - he would go there and buy me a program or even ask the
manager for stuff.

He and I would sit and watch movies all the time. Went to movies all
the time. Christmas Day. New Years Day. Always the first show of the
opening run of something important.

I had the love for the movies, but he stoked the fire and taught me
everything I know about how to enjoy them.

Something tells me you and my dad were cut from the same special cloth.

Alan

On Apr 27, 2021, at 5:44 AM, Tom Martin <dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com> wrote:

question to MOPO. bruce, and others


who were your early or best mentors in posters and business...?

please share your stories

we all have mentors as well as teachers of the trade who give us info and help us learn...

what interesting world of cinema art..history and its only been a little over 100 years..

speak up Mopoilians

Tom
Hollywood dream Factory®
since 1977

On 2021-04-27 08:21, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
Tom, you are an amazing survivor! I love your story about Adam West.
Hang in there!
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 3:45 PM
<dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com> wrote:
hello Bruce and mono land....
I have been learning so much since my surgery feb 4 and the prior
eye
surgery jan 19..
I was asked by a case worker what was my strongest character
asset...
I said well I am not that strong....I can cry at just thoughts of
others sadnesss.. or pain
and yet my mother and a few people seem to have thought I was
strong
I say well I pray to god..try to treat others fair and I keep
trying
so...theni remembered Adam west what he said to tell my ex wife
when was
selling his biography
see we sold it 29.95 autographed...
and had lackluster sales,.,
I had to get the books send them to Adam he send back..and we mail
them...all for 29.95
I kept running ads in CBG, movie collectors world... Baby
boomer..eve a
full page baby boomer ad..still....low sales..
so Adam called me one day...my ex said he won't give up !!! he
keeps
trying ....so Adam said "tell her you are exercising" I thought
that was
so funny but he was right..
I just kept trying new ads..as I believed in him as a pop culture
legend..
so I Told the woman assessor who asked me ..I think my best assets
I am
determined to get things done...
I also Told Adam sir I should just stop and give upas sam doing
poor
job...he said Tom what you need to know is no one knows anything we
all
just guess banditry...wheter it be Nasa or medical or
business..sometimes it works but many times it does not, when
edison
was asked why his 10,000 light bulbs failed experiments felt
he said I didn't fail, I found 10.99 ways NOT to make a lightbulb
I have been exercising, resting, doing much ponderingonlife
I gave my car to my son and much of my material stuff is gone, as
for
movies andposterand music..well I can only see partial left
eye...deaf
in one ear, and now one partial Charcot Foot...amdf next going to
be
fitted for prosthetic
I even got mental council lug to make sure sam lucid///the young
man
asked me share you offended that I lack empathy ifs am not
religious??
I said no many of my friends are atheist, agnostic, Muslim, Hindu ,
Buddist,jews ofallraces and ethnicity
etc..I love all people and all Races..Iam Sicilian andsawa great
PBS
travel history..Sicily is right over North Africa..eithiopia...and
was
captured by Normans Greeks, Muslims. Romans. you name it
Carthigy...so
it explains why I must have the blood of many people in me.
the best lesson I learned was to Forgive everyone...I learned that
the
China guys that set out take my trademark are suffering too
perhaps
more then me...so to just forgive them and help as many people as I
can
before I need this life..
all my mentors seem to agree..andend up serving others instead of
there
own egos..
so I have been trying to come up with items to help disabled people
like a way to come in the door from outside in a wheelchair..I took
a
foam mat ,placed it in from of the door, went backwards and did
it!!!
my nurse watched in case it didn't work..the disability guys said
there
was no way to do its a foot needs the door stop//
so I shimmed it up with a foam mat on the other side anti
cleared...
I am eating well..taking vitamins..doing leg lifts.ab crunches.and
other
then UTI infection...I had a 6.5 A1-c and tall my bloodworm looks
good//
so baby steps.prayer, frienbdsand family
its been hard mentally on my son..so he needs to recover
fromtheshock of
seeing his dad and his mom ill..
I affected his life...but he's been reading Positive books and
videos
andexpossing to great works like Norman Vincent Peale and other...
so we
are getting along better.....
we have spoke about the universe, God..media//its affect on
Kids..etc
He told me Speilbergt was tgeone who helped define PG-13 ratings
for the
movies/// so Lucas. Spielberg.Capra and many others have used Media
to
do many positive things in cinema...
I am not sure whats next but sam so thankful for my friends on mope
family...as its been great adventure to share your story...and
learn
about Motion pictures with you all...
I hope to do some good things before I transition to the next
thank you so much everyone and I wish you health peace and
happiness for
young family and/or business ventures..
God Bless,,
Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977
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