Man oh man Greg, I busted a gut reading this! You and Freeman are the funniest
dudes on MoPo. Your post took me back to the 70s through the 90s. Bought my
first movie posters at Comic Con where they were folded in boxes on dealer
tables and sold for $5 bucks - and then I'd go home and TACK THEM TO MY BEDROOM
WALL WITH FREAKING SCOTCH TAPE! I used to haunt the movie memorabilia stores
up in LA constantly. There used to be an awesome place on Vine north of
Hollywood Blvd. where I spent hours visiting - I wish I could remember its
name. It was always crowded.
Meanwhile, I've never bought posters for an investment - but it might come into
play when I upgrade a title and sell off the "lesser" - and my return would be
higher or lower, Didn't care. Among recent titles I used to constantly upgrade
was the DS Lost in Translation until finally getting one with no dings.
Oh and congrats on your fab UK tour! Amazing, still rocking concerts for $$$ -
GLOBALLY. Can't wait for your book you formerly from San Diego dork. Say
hello to a pine tree for me when you get back to Oregon! -d.
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From: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> on behalf of Larry Brooks
<0000021723856377-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2023 4:08 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in recent years?
OMG.... Greg you brought back memories I had forgotten for over 50 years. When
I was a teenager I used to ride my bike with several friends over to Hollywood
and hang out at Malcolm Willits' Argosy Bookstore, which also sold posters &
stills. I drove the poor guy crazy looking at all these wonderful things and he
would say "Are you going to BUY something today?!" He kicked me out a bunch of
times and later banned me from his store. Whenever I finished there I would
walk over to the Cherokee Bookstore and savored many of their posters and
photos (and bought back issues of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine), and
from there it was over to the Larry Edmunds Bookshop, where my brother and I
wound up buying a great deal of posters and stills over the years. They were
the only ones that had material on our special favorite films. Larry Edmunds
was evidently good friends with many people in Hollywood and some wound up
selling their own stills and scripts to his store.... my god some of the things
he had were incredible, and at decent prices. Those were the days.
Thanks for conjuring back those memories from the past!
Larry Brooks
On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 02:59:06 PM PDT, Greg Douglass
<pickmeis...@mail.com> wrote:
I bought from Theater Poster Exchange back in the mid-1960s. One sheets were 75
cents, regardless of title. 8 lobby cards a whopping $2.50.
I went to Hollywood with my family on vacation and visited Malcolm Willits at
his small store. For ten bucks I bought a one sheet from "The Devil Commands"
and two lobbies from "A & C Meet Frankenstein". I floated up to the Cherokee
Bookstore where they had a safe full of fresh AIP posters, unfolded. The rest
of my allowance disappeared there. (I saved for months for that trip.)
I recently repurchased "The Devil Commands" for 3K (big royalty check). It's
framed next to Lugosi's "Invisible Ghost" one sheet (I was playing guitar at a
casino and put 20 bucks into a slot machine. It yielded close to $750. I bought
it from a Heritage customer as an after-auction buy for...$750.)
We are here for a very short time on this planet. I enjoy every sandwich and my
posters make me a happy camper. I'll never be able to afford a Universal
classic poster but my "Attack of the Crab Monsters/Not of This Earth" double
bill half-sheet (400 clams) takes me back some of the most enjoyable moments of
my childhood and THAT, my fellow P.D.s, is beyond financial concerns.
Greg Douglass
Heading Home in two days
PS -I have spoken with Claude Litton a few times and he is a wonderful guy. He
is also quite wealthy and his poster collection is fabulous. We obviously are
on the same page as far as our obvious love for those magical bits of paper.
There are happy campers at all levels of Dorkdom.
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Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 8:56 PM
From: "Alan Adler" <m...@charter.net>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in
recent years?
Greg -
You obviously began collecting posters when they had little value and
collecting them was just a hobby -
There’s still a great deal of entry-level material thanks to Bruce and others -
But does anyone think the hobby may have lost something, now that the game's
become a sport of the rich?
Alan
On Oct 22, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Greg Douglass <pickmeis...@mail.com> wrote:
Fellow Poster Aficionados;
I remember going to poster shows back in the 90s and seeing these "geezers"
buying old western posters from the 30s & 40s. "Look at those poor old
bastards!" I would say to my wife. "Ha! Whoops, there's a 50s horror poster!
How much money do we have in the bank?"
I am now officially a geezer. Big time. Oh, my aching back....
My preferred genre appears to have stalled a bit price-wise, except for the
delusional eBay sellers who are asking $1200 for stuff like "The Brain Eaters".
Or $24,000+ for that 50-foot woman I used have thumbtacked on my wall as a kid.
Seriously, guys; it ain't gonna happen. NOBODY IS THAT STUPID! Or that
rich...and if they're rich, they probably didn't get that way by being dopes.
With a few exceptions. I'm not sure what to do with my stuff. I don't have a
massive collection but it's worth a bit of dough. I never, ever once bought
with investing in mind. I resonate emotionally to these pieces of paper that
drive my wife crazy. My son has no clue as to what these pieces of paper are or
what they're worth and I'm sure he doesn't give a rat's ass. I gifted him with
a "Deathgasm" one sheet and he thought I was the coolest dad in the world. He
loves that stupid movie. It is a thousand-dollar poster to my 41-year-old boy.
I'm looking prices stalling out a bit and as a buyer, I'm stoked. As a seller,
I'm fine. I'll still get a decent amount of money for what I have if I sell
while I'm alive. It's not like I invested a million bucks in dot-com stocks
back in 2000. (Remember THAT debacle?)
I have a folder with photos of posters and their present worth for my son in
case the Reaper decides to visit early. That worth is based on the most recent
prices in the Hershenson auction history; that is only because that is the
easiest way to gauge actual worth without computing the varous Heritage F/U
fees. I really like Rich. I really like Bruce. I really like the whole damned
lot of you. No one else speaks Poster Dork better than MOPO.
My two worthless pennies....whoops, now worth ONE worthless penny in the time
it took to write this!
Greg Douglass
Presently in Cornwall, UK, soon to be back in Coos Bay, OR
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