Okay -
We’ve got all this time -
We’ve got this great forum.
Let’s crank it up a bit.
Every one of us has a story about the first poster we ever scored and changed
our life.
Will start it off -
I was nine years old - it was 1957 - Asheboro, North Carolina - the Carolina
Theater -
Would take a cab from elementary school to go to the movies before walking down
the street to my parents dress shop and ride home with them.
Saw I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and was instantly transformed beyond my ears into
a frothing teenager.
Begged the manager of the theater for that poster.
He said they always have to send them back - they cost money - (maybe 35 cents
pack then?) -
Begged the manager even more.
He caved and gave me the insert from Teenage Werewolf.
I was never the same.
Cobalt ink began to run through my veins.
Would stop to go through the garbage cans behind the theater before I went to
the movies.
Ah, the days of trash picking.
Oddly enough, when I started the Fox Archives -
Started going through the studio trash.
My wife began to call me an executive dumpster diver.
Eventually I curated the Fox Museum - THE HALL OF COOL STUFF - in Australia.
It contained nearly six million dollars worth of trash I salvaged and stopped
from being tossed.
Trash these days just isn’t what it was!
Alan Adler
Museum of Mom and Pop Culture
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