wow i have terror magazine...somewhere and i bet its thesame one....
cool strories my 1st movie stuff was around 1965-66 with Bubble gum
cards..of monsters andmonster magazines.. then was music -beatles and
monkees..andthenitwas mel Blanc in 1976 who said well Tom besised music
you can find a niche..likei did...as he was a musician...and so wheni
cam back from La..i started a booking agency atage 19-20///anmdthen
inmyoffice i started sellingposters i would buy from Movie
geeeks..andmovie magaxzines as my buddy said you can sell this it was
20s photoplay movie mags...wellthe rest was justa loveofallthe cinema
gear and anything to do with Hollywood and meeting allthe
collectors,authors and dealers...so funny as most had a similar
Journey....whata experience...Hollywood heritage helped me they are
rtthe museum of cbdemille./...andiremeber talking to lenord maltin..i
have his mag he made Film fan monthly...1st issue////so its been a real;
education and so lucky to met MOPOP members.. all over the world...
thank YOU all...and nice tosee youtalk again liketheold days of mopo and
hear your stories......and see how you gotinthe biziness...
all the best to you all..
kindest regards, Tom
Hollywood dreamfactory®
On 2020-03-18 16:03, Greg Douglass wrote:
I was 12 or 13 and obsessed with finding movie posters for my room. I
actually wrote to American International Pictures asking if I could
buy directly from them. They sent back a postcard with John Ashley's
picture. Not what I was looking for.
I was fooling around collaborating with John & Michael Brunas on a
fanzine called "Terror Monsters". They directed me to Bruco
Enterprises where I bought my first one sheet; MACABRE, the William
Castle shocker. Stamped on the back was the address for Theater Poster
Exchange. I bought a bunch of stuff: one sheets for 75 cents, lobby
sets for $2.50, etc. I got a GODZILLA one sheet AND a three sheet plus
a full CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON lobby set on that first
order...all for somewhere in the ten dollar range.
Vacationing in Hollywood, I found treasure troves of great stuff,
including a gorgeous one sheet from THE DEVIL COMMANDS. Bought it from
a guy named Malcolm Willits for 5 bucks.
A lot of money!!!!!
I've come in and out of the hobby for 57 years and still loving it.
Greg Douglass
PS-Still waiting to find a HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL any size that won't
bankrupt me.....
SENT: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 11:53 AM
FROM: "Ira Rubenstein" <[email protected]>
TO: [email protected]
SUBJECT: Re: [MOPO] First Poster Stories
OK -
I will jump in. I was interning for 20th Century Fox theatrical
Marketing and Distribution. I was spending one week out at the Branch
office in Sherman Oaks. They gave the intern the fun job to clean out
the closet. Well, I came across some Return of The Jedi posters and
other FOX films and I asked if I could take them home. YES! And that's
what started it.
From my internship I joined Fox in exhibitor relations and of course
my job was sending out posters. And of course I got to keep a copy or
two.
Then one year I asked NSS people for some posters as a present for my
wife. Winnie The Pooh and some Star Wars. Came in the mail. That
really kicked it into high gear.
My first significant purchase was a SINGIN IN THE RAIN one sheet. A
co-worker told me about these auctions you could buy older posters.
Again, my wife's favorite film. Got the poster. Took it to Sue to
frame.
She looked it at it and said. Hey, this was once mine. Never folded
version that hung at MGM in the Art Director's office. __ And Sue and
I have been friends ever since.
And I now have over 1100 posters in my collection. And no more wall
space.
Ira
On 3/18/20, 1:52 PM, "MoPo List on behalf of Alan Adler"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
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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