great memory PIckmaster Masn..
that must have been so cool
thanks for share...
Tom
Hollywood dream Factory®
since 1977
On 2020-04-14 13:52, Greg Douglass wrote:
Been reading this thread with great interest. I knew a guy named Chuck
Vergara who had been collecting posters for ages. A mutual pal of ours
introduced us and I went to Chuck's coffee shop/restaurant that he
owned and was immediately stunned by the gorgeous posters covering
almost every wall surface. Chuck's addiction was to those beautiful
20th Century Fox stone lithos. 'They're so damn pretty!" he said over
and over again. He was driving around in San Francisco one day when an
old, old theater on Market Street was dumping hundreds of pounds of
posters ranging from the twenties to the present. He sprinted over to
a phone booth and called everyone with a large vehicle that he knew.
I bought many, many posters from Chuck over the years; sadly,
financial issues forced me to sell much of my collection in the early
1990s.
He used to joke about my love for horror films. "We can still be
friends even though you like that crap", he used to say.
One day, I got a phone call from Chuck. "Hey, Mr. Horror Movie Guy,
can you come over here, like RIGHT now?" He would not say why but I
jetted over. There, laid out on his living room floor, was the six
sheet from "Phantom of the Opera" showing the Phantom at the Masked
Ball. It was so gorgeous I got tears in my eyes. The person who was
buying the poster from Chuck came over and ranted and raved over the
ourrageous price: "TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!?!?! That's highway robbery,
Vergara!" He grumpily paid the 2 Gs and left.
I believe that same poster sold at one of Bruce's early auctions for a
gazillion dollars.
I loved Chuck like a father. When he developed prostate cancer, he
sold me much of his collection for peanuts. "Come on, Chuck, we both
know that poster is worth a lot more." He insisted. Ebay was just
getting going so my profits on poster sales were pretty strong.
He was the nicest man I ever met and I miss his company terribly. He
wasn't the earliest collector but he'd been doing it for a long, long
time. I've met some great people in this hobby and also some
unbelievable dicks.
They broke the mold when they made Chuck.
Great thread. I love these stories.
Greg Douglass
PS-I used to go to National Sreen Service on 5th St in San Francisco
when I was a kid. I'd either hitch a ride with my older brother or
take the bus. I had piles of dead mint early Sixties titles, lots of
Corman AIP. The guy who worked there was the first flamboyantly gay
person i ever met. He was an absolute riot, constantly bitching about
how his "addiction" had turned him into a shipping clerk. "What awful
gory things do you want today, young man?" he'd say when I walked in.
One sheets were ...I think...50 cents. I paid for many of my treasures
using quarters and dimes. Warm up my time machine, please.
SENT: Monday, April 13, 2020 at 5:16 PM
FROM: "Glenn Taranto" <[email protected]>
TO: [email protected]
SUBJECT: Re: [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...?
Thanks, Sue. What a lucky kid! Hard to believe any poster being mint
being over 90 years old.
As we all know many posters were given up for the war effort in the
1940's. I hope I live long enough for that time machine to be
invented!
Glenn
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:08 PM Susan Heim <[email protected]>
wrote:
Great question Glenn.. I know I have customers who started
collecting the the 1950's. I have one customer who's father was good
friends with someone who ran a National Screen Service and, on
weekends, they would drop
by to see the friend and the friend would give my customer, who was
about 10 or 11 in those days movie posters and lobby card sets. So,
for any given film, and he particularly collected Elizabeth Taylor
and Alfred Hitchcock,
he owned the one sheet, 40x60, 30x40 and lobby card set for each of
their films, all in mint, never used condition. My customer kept up
with the friend over the years, and developed other film poster
interests all the way back to the 1920's, and collected hundreds of
posters. It's really amazing to hold in your hands a mint copy of
something that is 60 or 90 years old when you go to frame it......
I know Ron Borst started collecting pretty early.....when I first
started collecting back in 1973, I knew other collectors that had
been collecting since the 1940's finding posters in old bookstores
in Hollywood.
Sue
Hollywood Poster Frames
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SENT: Monday, April 13, 2020 11:59 PM
TO: [email protected] <[email protected]>
SUBJECT: [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...?
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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