Lou Valentino// is on Facebook....
years ago while he was at Time life.. he was able toget me a People
magazine article on Adam west who i was promoting...
itwas a nice spread..Lou was a longtime customer of Movie
magazines.andhe loves Lana Turner stuff..he even did a book on
her...great guy...he was goes back tothe 77-78 ,79as one of my 1stmail
order customers..of Movie magazines./.i still have a letter he sent me
while at time /lifecongratulatingon getting thepeople article on Adam//
I think he was art editor?????
i remmember my customers by thekindness... one Guy was danny simon..he
used to call me to do rambo stuff as he repped Carolco....andthat was
back around maybe 1980....ilearned Danny is now one ofthemost respected
Lience agencys and LIMA..gave hime the award for best guyinthge biz...
he reps Swarzenegger and stallone...and the others..andhow i remember
him most was not his credits but his wonderfulsincere kindness.....as we
had fun talking and he was just NIce....very common with the ones that i
respect as theyare humble..and sincere and very personable./....not
stuffy or arrogant.... but they serve others and make stuff
happen....i bet ifyou refelecton who you wereinspired by they were the
Kind ones......
the other thing give learned is many who are private and seem aloof are
just scared of others as theymay have been abused as kids..and so they
are hurt...and get protective and shy away as its hard for themtotruts
after being BURNT....just ask a jew from the 30ss from Germany.... or
anygroup that has been treated unfair
who gave you a break when others would not let you in......
Roddy mcdowell had it,,Mel Blanc, so many.... in movie collecting,,Herb
Bridges from Atlanta... David Bowers, James Parrish, Forrey Ackerman,
...
hope that helps
LOU is a facebook Friend.Glenn
enjoy the week month year..Folks..
Tom
Hollywood Dream Factory®
since 1977
On 2020-04-14 14:37, Glenn Taranto wrote:
Does Lou Valentino have a website or an eBay page?
Thanks,
Glenn
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:26 AM Bruce Hershenson
<[email protected]> wrote:
You are surely right, Joe. More amazing, he is active on Facebook
too. What a guy!
And Lou is one of those rare dealers I NEVER hear the slightest
negative about, kind of a miracle in this hobby. Although come to
think of it, I have also NEVER heard a negative word about Joe
Burtis, either!
Please all of you stay safe.
Bruce
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:04 PM jburtis <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Bruce (and everyone else),
I think the collector active the longest (and still going strong)
must be Lou Valentino of the Bronx. He started some time in the late
1940s or early 1950s. Probably on eBay as I type this.
Just a guess,
Joe -----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:27:31 -0500
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...?
Glenn,
To get back to your original question, certainly a leading
candidate would be the man who consigned the wonderful collection of
serial one-sheets I auctioned in my Auction in 2001 which was
contained in my book, To Be Continued (see all the images online at
http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/publication/To%2520Be%2520Continued.../archive.html
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The owner, Frank, who was still alive, had bought the one-sheets
himself (starting as a teenager) between 1932 and 1952. He got them
from the San Francisco poster exchanges. The people there were not
supposed to sell them to non-theater people, but he got to know
them, and they did the kid a favor, and over the years he because a
regular!
He kept them in incredible condition, and he is one of the only
long time collectors who resisted the temptation to sell any of them
as the prices rose. When he contacted me at the end of 2000, he said
he was having health issues, and that otherwise he would never sell.
He said one thing that stuck with me. When I told him the kind of
money he would likely get (which was surpassed when the posters
auctioned) he was amazed. He said there had been one "old guy" at
the exchanges who kept telling him that he was "throwing away his
money" buying the posters, and that he should do ANYTHING else with
it. He said he wished that old guy could see how much money they
were worth in 2000 (but of course that guy was surely long gone).
So not only did Frank start in 1932, surely making him one of the
earliest collectors ever, but he also solely bought as a collector,
and did not get a huge chunk to start out with, as so many
collectors do. And he held onto them for 68 years (for the oldest
ones) so he surely qualifies as one of the longest term collectors
too.
And of course there was also Charles Dyas, who started his
collecting in 1921 (with his TWO Cabinet of Caligari one-sheets),
but he was a theater owner, and he saved ones from movies he showed,
so i don't know if he counts. But he DID also keep all his posters
until the late 1980s, when he passed away, so he was another super
long time collector.
And there was the other theater owner who bought a trunk filled
with 1930s posters in 1946, including The Invisible Man and Dracula,
and he held those until he consigned them to me in 1998, yet another
really long time collector.
And there were others, but those are for another time!
Bruce
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM Glenn Taranto <
[email protected]> wrote:
Hello All -
OK, Admittedly too much time on my hands...
Have any of you ever wondered (or know) who is considered the
earliest know poster collector? Forry Ackerman, perhaps?
I can just imagine some kid standing in front of a Paramount theatre
and staring at a Metropolis one sheet wishing they could own it.
GT
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