Yes it's amazing just how far the internet has taken over from all that in a relatively short time. I already find it difficult to remember how I used to cope in the "old days". I mean, how did I ever find out anything about anything without googling it? I guess I must have left the house and talked to people! A visit to a shop like Ed's could turn out to be an all-day event. If you didn't end up talking about posters/films for ages yourself, there was a good chance you'd be tuning into someone else talking about posters/films for ages. On the flip side, through the witchcraft of the online forum it has become much easier to speak Poster Geek internationally to poster geeks you didn't even know existed. Paul _www.movieposterstudio.com_ (http://www.movieposterstudio.com) In a message dated 10/04/2016 17:01:23 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Wow. Didn't know the gentleman but I was just ruminating on the idea of walk-in movie poster stores. We had three in San Francisco that I recall: Memory Shop West, run by a nice woman named Carol York, The Cinema Shop, and Cinemonde, Jose ma Carpio's place. I remember walking into the Cinema Shop and buying a one sheet from "It Came from Outer Space" for a whopping $25, a fortune at the time (1975). Cinemonde was a bit too upscale for the likes of me. I always felt like I had farted in church when I walked in the store. In general, it was great to have a place to walk into and be able to learn about movie poster history...actually, back then, that was pretty much the ONLY way to speak Poster Geek with another human being. Greg Douglass ---- Paul Gerrard <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for passing on the news Adrian. That's a real shame. I spent many a > happy hour rummaging around at his film fairs and visited his shop a few > times, and feel grateful for the contribution he made to the hobby and > consequently my poster-collecting life. > > Paul Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
