When I got "back in the hobby" in the early Nineties, I bought one of Deke's
catalogs from MCW, I ended up buying one of my favorite posters, the "Invisible
Ghost" with that wonderful image of Bela Lugosi. His prices were were up there,
but I never regretted making a buy from Deke. I had no idea that he and I were
both songwriters until I had known him for a couple of years. We had some great
bullshit sessions on the phone. (My heart nearly stopped when I learned how
much dough he was still making off the Jackson Five! White boy makes good at
Motown.) The last time I spoke with him a few years back was also one of our
best conversations. he remembered me talking about how much i wanted one of the
47 X 63" French posters from "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", and (this was
months after I had mentioned it!) he found me one in Near Mint+ condition. I
actually repainted my living room to match the poster!!!!
He mentioned being in ill health last time we talked, and this was about six
years ago. We just kind of....drifted apart .
You always assume there will be a "next time". He extended an open
invitation to me to stop by if I was ever in Washington
> I met Deke at the Cinefest in Columbus many years ago. There was a period of
> about seven years there, around 2000, when Deke would set up his table with
> great lobby cards. He was pretty rigid with his prices, but when you bought
> a lobby card from Deke you knew you are buying a card in NM condition or
> better! This was affectionately known among his dealer friends as "Deke
> Conditon". He simply refused to stock cards in any lesser condition than
> that. He also would not allow customers to handle his cards. He, and he
> alone, would pull the card out of his album, and carefully allow you to
> examine it, IF he thought you are serious about buying it in the first place.
> He was very much loved and admired by a lot of dealers, who of formed kind of
> an in-crowd "Mafia" that I had the pleasure of tagging along to many a
> dinners or late night beer.
> Those were the days...
> I know he will be missed by many Columbus regulars.
>
>
> Zeev
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of glenndamato
> Sent: March 25, 2013 10:42 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Deke Richards
>
> Deke, although hard to deal with sometimes, was basically a fair, honest man
> who was very against all of the shady practices going on these days in the
> hobby. He had keen musical acumen and was a brilliant songwriter. R.I.P.,
> Deke...they have another wonderful tunesmith in Heaven...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "Smith, Grey - 1367" <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Mar 25, 2013 9:19 AM
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: [MOPO] Deke Richards
> >
> >Deke was an interesting guy who had a real passion for the posters!
> >I will miss him as we had a number friendly conversations through the years
> >but especially of last several.
> >Sad news, indeed.
> >
> >Sent from my iPad
> >
> >On Mar 25, 2013, at 8:13 AM, "James Gresham"
> ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >That's very sad news. We will miss "Traded Deke."
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Tom Martin
> ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deke_Richards MOTOWN
> >>
> >>
> >>---- Original Message ----
> >>From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> >>To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> >>Subject: Re: [MOPO] Deke Richards
> >>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:08:40 -0500
> >>
> >>>Wasn't Deke a famous record producer or something like that before
> >>he was a
> >>>movie poster dealer?
> >>>
> >>>I imagine many people here remember his "Cryptkeeper" Halloween
> >>auctions on
> >>>eBay, where every item would have an extremely high reserve, but he
> >>got an
> >>>awful lot of people to pay those very high prices, and he was an
> >>important
> >>>part of the dramatic rise of prices on 1940s and 1950s horror sci-fi
> >>over
> >>>the late 1990s and early 2000s.
> >>>
> >>>He really loved the posters he bought and sold.
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:42 AM,
> >>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Sad news. I'm sure many of us had dealings with Deke over many
> >>years.
> >>>> Phil
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> *From:* Adrian Cowdry
> >>>> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
> >>>> *Sent:* Monday, March 25, 2013 04:28 AM
> >>>> *To:*
> >>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> >>>> *Subject:* [MOPO] Deke Richards
> >>>>
> >>>> Dear Mopo
> >>>>
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> >>>> has passed away. Deke Richards one of the nicest grumpy old men
> >>you could
> >>>> have met.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> <#13da0edb6039f3bf_> This never happened to the other fella...
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> >>>> Adrian Cowdry
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