OMG.... Greg you brought back memories I had forgotten for over 50 years. When
I was a teenager I used to ride my bike with several friends over to Hollywood
and hang out at Malcolm Willits' Argosy Bookstore, which also sold posters &
stills. I drove the poor guy crazy looking at all these wonderful things and he
would say "Are you going to BUY something today?!" He kicked me out a bunch of
times and later banned me from his store. Whenever I finished there I would
walk over to the Cherokee Bookstore and savored many of their posters and
photos (and bought back issues of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine), and
from there it was over to the Larry Edmunds Bookshop, where my brother and I
wound up buying a great deal of posters and stills over the years. They were
the only ones that had material on our special favorite films. Larry Edmunds
was evidently good friends with many people in Hollywood and some wound up
selling their own stills and scripts to his store.... my god some of the things
he had were incredible, and at decent prices. Those were the days.
Thanks for conjuring back those memories from the past!
Larry Brooks
On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 02:59:06 PM PDT, Greg Douglass
<[email protected]> wrote:
I bought from Theater Poster Exchange back in the mid-1960s. One sheets were
75 cents, regardless of title. 8 lobby cards a whopping $2.50.I went to
Hollywood with my family on vacation and visited Malcolm Willits at his small
store. For ten bucks I bought a one sheet from "The Devil Commands" and two
lobbies from "A & C Meet Frankenstein". I floated up to the Cherokee Bookstore
where they had a safe full of fresh AIP posters, unfolded. The rest of my
allowance disappeared there. (I saved for months for that trip.)I recently
repurchased "The Devil Commands" for 3K (big royalty check). It's framed next
to Lugosi's "Invisible Ghost" one sheet (I was playing guitar at a casino and
put 20 bucks into a slot machine. It yielded close to $750. I bought it from a
Heritage customer as an after-auction buy for...$750.)We are here for a very
short time on this planet. I enjoy every sandwich and my posters make me a
happy camper. I'll never be able to afford a Universal classic poster but my
"Attack of the Crab Monsters/Not of This Earth" double bill half-sheet (400
clams) takes me back some of the most enjoyable moments of my childhood and
THAT, my fellow P.D.s, is beyond financial concerns.Greg DouglassHeading Home
in two daysPS-I have spoken with Claude Litton a few times and he is a
wonderful guy. He is also quite wealthy and his poster collection is fabulous.
We obviously are on the same page as far as our obvious love for those magical
bits of paper. There are happy campers at all levels of Dorkdom. Sent:
Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 8:56 PM
From: "Alan Adler" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in
recent years?Greg - You obviously began collecting posters when they had little
value and collecting them was just a hobby - There’s still a great deal of
entry-level material thanks to Bruce and others - But does anyone think the
hobby may have lost something, now that the game's become a sport of the rich?
Alan
On Oct 22, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Greg Douglass <[email protected]> wrote:
Fellow Poster Aficionados;I remember going to poster shows back in the 90s and
seeing these "geezers" buying old western posters from the 30s & 40s. "Look at
those poor old bastards!" I would say to my wife. "Ha! Whoops, there's a 50s
horror poster! How much money do we have in the bank?"I am now officially a
geezer. Big time. Oh, my aching back....My preferred genre appears to have
stalled a bit price-wise, except for the delusional eBay sellers who are asking
$1200 for stuff like "The Brain Eaters". Or $24,000+ for that 50-foot woman I
used have thumbtacked on my wall as a kid. Seriously, guys; it ain't gonna
happen. NOBODY IS THAT STUPID! Or that rich...and if they're rich, they
probably didn't get that way by being dopes.With a few exceptions.I'm not sure
what to do with my stuff. I don't have a massive collection but it's worth a
bit of dough. I never, ever once bought with investing in mind. I resonate
emotionally to these pieces of paper that drive my wife crazy. My son has no
clue as to what these pieces of paper are or what they're worth and I'm sure he
doesn't give a rat's ass. I gifted him with a "Deathgasm" one sheet and he
thought I was the coolest dad in the world. He loves that stupid movie. It is a
thousand-dollar poster to my 41-year-old boy.I'm looking prices stalling out a
bit and as a buyer, I'm stoked. As a seller, I'm fine. I'll still get a decent
amount of money for what I have if I sell while I'm alive. It's not like I
invested a million bucks in dot-com stocks back in 2000. (Remember THAT
debacle?) I have a folder with photos of posters and their present worth for my
son in case the Reaper decides to visit early. That worth is based on the most
recent prices in the Hershenson auction history; that is only because that is
the easiest way to gauge actual worth without computing the varous Heritage F/U
fees.I really like Rich. I really like Bruce. I really like the whole damned
lot of you. No one else speaks Poster Dork better than MOPO.My two worthless
pennies....whoops, now worth ONE worthless penny in the time it took to write
this!Greg DouglassPresently in Cornwall, UK, soon to be back in Coos Bay, OR
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 3:25 AM
From: "Richard Halegua MPB.auction" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in
recent years?
100% Tommy
if it isn't going up in price, it's not an investment
now I can understand saying "the investment in yourself" as clearly we buy
posters for personal enjoyment, so the $3000 I paid for a super-sharp Murder My
Sweet one sheet in 2001 and have framed at home was an investment in my
enjoyment and every day, the cost of the enjoyment goes down a little. My cost
was almost $9 a day in the first year I owned it, and went down to $4.50 the
second year and after 22 years, it's 5 cents a day.
but as a monetary vehicle, posters have a pathetic track record the last 20
years, especially pre-Star Wars posters
On 10/18/2023 7:43 AM, Tommy Barr wrote:
Strangely, most people I know want to invest in something that has gone up in
price. Tommy On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 13:47, Bruce Hershenson
<[email protected]> wrote:
People keep saying to me "Bruce, what is something I can invest in that has not
gone sky high in recent years?". Can I self-servingly suggest vintage movie
paper?
It might SEEM like I am saying this because that is my livelihood, but it is
100% true that a LOT of vintage movie posters sell for the same or similar
prices that they did 20 or more years ago, including both great ones and lesser
ones!
This is something you can't say about just about ANYTHING else, from real
estate to the stock market to groceries to oil, to almost EVERY other kind of
collectible!
While many of the best examples of comic books or baseball cards or so many
other collectibles are "out of sight" to an average person, you CAN still buy a
wonderful movie poster for a surprisingly reasonable price!
Want proof? Take a gander at my company's (eMoviePoster.com's) current 3,185
auctions currently running in our 3-part 24th Annual Halloween Auction at
https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html
These 3,185 auctions are FILLED with great horror/sci-fi/fantasy items at every
price level, and at the current bid prices, most are at huge discounts to
prices of the same or similar items many years ago!
But you can't get those great deals if you aren't bidding, so why not go to the
above links RIGHT NOW? We think you will surely find the great rarities and
many low prices an irresistible combination!
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