wow thats Incredible stuff Dave!!!
I have been so lucky in my life to have adventures finding stuff...
people ask '' where did you get this stuff
well Its anazing as I tell people and they still wonder... I think its
because i have th eyes and belief
of a kid,, that anythings possible... so I dont discount peoples ideas
or when they call and say I have
old posters I look.. as they might...
well I knew thes people that had a Old business of Carnival and
fundraising supplies.. they had like 6 floors of a Old hotel from 1800s
downtown...... they looked at old stuff as Old stock and they had been
in business since the 30s and so they had tons of old stuff.....
well I went down and this was in the late 70s -80s and my 1st buy was
GUMBY costumes for the little Gumby dolls dater 1965 Lakeside toys.. I
bought them 20 cents each.. In unopened case lots maybe like
1000 - 2000 units.... well the Guy about laughed me out of there as he
though whats a guy going to do with Gumby costumes.. as there was NO
Gumby doll out.....well then Gumby came back in Vouge
and the costumes fit...jesco in Calif made them...also NJ CROCE comapan
in San dimas took my Gumbittys and remolded them so Art Cloaky got
renewed products.. OK also in that warehouse was
Major Matt mason ,, all the toys from that m and Tammy doll accessories
( case and cases) I found Tin Toys, little soldiers , You name it...It
wa all Japan and early goofy Pop culture... at the time we didnt
even call it Pop culture... we called it old stuff... Iuse to trade
dealers from coast to coast as we all found warehouse finds..
so my biggest fing in that warehouse was like several 1000 MONKEE finger
puppets Of Davey and
Mickey they were made by remco still mint on package,.. there was a
guy From LA from a company named Chic -a -Boom on Melrose... wwell he
found Uncle milton tin windups and beatle wigs
and some other stuff.... so we traded for finger puppets and his Mom
sold Robots and I traded Matt mason for the Lost in space Robots,,,
It was quite fun networking with dealers and collectors all over..
Thats how I met Steven Sansweet who know Runs the Lucasfilm fan club...
he was a collector and bought a bunch of ET and star wars toys from
us... How I got ET was a hershets salesman came in my shop and was a
collector so I bought all these displays from him // still have them..
from 1982
and all the extras/.// I loved ET when it came out... matter of fact
81 82 was good years for Movies.
So the finds..... well they were like going on Indiana Jones adventures
My son and I once went on three states and canada buying all the
Jurrassic parke we could find as
It was a learning experiance I wanted to share with him on Toy
speculation .. the idea was if we got stuck
who cares as it was cool stuff.. however we spent like 3-4 K so it was a
large amount for time.
Now at 51 I amd basically doing it all over and its funny how many
people need help getting rid of stuff..
Ive been in training 30 years to help... I am digging hearing the
stories and memories....
thats the best part for me..
I would like to hear from Morrie as hes been collecting years.
heres a idea for Ed and Sue maybe put a Book out interviewing the super
collectors like morry, Fishler and the Big collectors.. thats may be of
interest..
My stuff is small time...But occaisionally I am surprised the breaks I
get...
Dave Rosen wrote:
Hey, Mopoers:
Check this out, from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill
Bryson's memoir of growing up in Des Moines in the 50s and 60s, which
I just finished reading:
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One Saturday after going to the movies we were walking home when we
passed a small brick office building with a plaque that said
MID-AMERICA FILM DISTRIBUTION or something like that and Jed suggested
we go in.
Inside, a small, elderly man in a lively suit was sitting at a desk
doing nothing.
"Hello," said Jed, "I hope I'm not intruding, but do you have any old
film posters you don't require any longer?"
"You like movies?" said the man.
"Like them? Sir, no, I LOVE them."
"No kidding," said the man, pleased as anything. "That's great, that's
great. Tell me, son, what's your favorite movie?"
"I think that would have to be All About Eve.'
"You like that?" siad the man. "I've got that here somewhere. Hold
on." He took us into a storeroom that was packed from floor to ceiling
with rolled posters and began searching through them. "It's here
somewhere. What else do you like?"
"Oh gosh," said Jed, "Sunset Boulevard, Rebecca, An Affair to
Remember, Lost Horizon, Blithe Spirit, Adam's Rib, Mrs. Miniver,
Mildred Pierce, The Philadelphia Story, The Man Who Came to Dinner, A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Storm Warning, The Pajama Game, This Property
is Condemned, The Asphalt Jungle, The Seven Year Itch, From This Day
Forward, How Green Was My Valley and Now, Voyager, but not necessarily
in that order."
"I got those!" said the man excitedly. "I got all those." He started
passing posters to Jed in a manic fashion. He turned to me. "What
about you?"
"The Brain That Wouldn't Die," I said hopefully.
He grimaced and shook his head. "I don't handle B stuff," he said.
"Zombies on Broadway?"
He shook his head.
"Island of the Undead?"
He gave up on me and turned back to Jed. "You like Lana Turner movies?"
"Of course. Who doesn't?"
"I've got 'em all - every one since The Dancing Co-ed. Here, I want
you to have them." And he began piling them onto Jed's arms.
In the end, he gave us more or less everything he had - posters dating
back to the late 1930s, all in mint condition. Goodness knows what
they would be worth now. We took them in a cab back to Jed's house and
divided them up on his bedroom floor. Jed took all the ones for movies
starring Doris Day and Debbie Reynolds. I got the ones with men
running along in a crouch with guns blazing. We were both extremely happy.
Some years later, I went away to Europe for a summer and ended up
staying two years. While I was away my parents cleaned out my bedroom.
The posters went on a bonfire.
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OK, I (like everybody else), had a similar experience with comic books
and trading cards getting tossed in the trash by an over-zealous
mom, but never movie posters (cuz I didn't have any at the time).
But a bonfire!
Dave
Posteropolis Vintage Posters
www.posteropolis.com <http://www.posteropolis.com>
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