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.
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
SENT: Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 3:25 AM
FROM: "Richard Halegua MPB.auction" <richadmin@MPB.AUCTION>
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?
100% Tommy
if it isn't going up in price, it's not an investment
now I can understand saying "the investment in yourself" as clearly
we buy posters for personal enjoyment, so the $3000 I paid for a
super-sharp Murder My Sweet one sheet in 2001 and have framed at
home was an investment in my enjoyment and every day, the cost of
the enjoyment goes down a little. My cost was almost $9 a day in the
first year I owned it, and went down to $4.50 the second year and
after 22 years, it's 5 cents a day.
but as a monetary vehicle, posters have a pathetic track record the
last 20 years, especially pre-Star Wars posters
On 10/18/2023 7:43 AM, Tommy Barr wrote:
Strangely, most people I know want to invest in something that has
gone up in price.
Tommy
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 13:47, Bruce Hershenson
<brucehershen...@gmail.com> wrote:
People keep saying to me "Bruce, what is something I can invest in
that has not gone sky high in recent years?". Can I self-servingly
suggest vintage movie paper?
It might SEEM like I am saying this because that is my livelihood,
but it is 100% true that a LOT of vintage movie posters sell for the
same or similar prices that they did 20 or more years ago, including
both great ones and lesser ones!
This is something you can't say about just about ANYTHING else,
from real estate to the stock market to groceries to oil, to almost
EVERY other kind of collectible!
While many of the best examples of comic books or baseball cards or
so many other collectibles are "out of sight" to an average person,
you CAN still buy a wonderful movie poster for a surprisingly
reasonable price!
Want proof? Take a gander at my company's (eMoviePoster.com's)
current 3,185 auctions currently running in our 3-part 24th Annual
Halloween Auction at https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html
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These 3,185 auctions are FILLED with great horror/sci-fi/fantasy
items at every price level, and at the current bid prices, most are
at huge discounts to prices of the same or similar items many years
ago!
But you can't get those great deals if you aren't bidding, so why
not go to the above links RIGHT NOW? We think you will surely find
the great rarities and many low prices an irresistible combination!
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