Re: [MOPO] The New York Times memorializes Jerry Ohlinger!

[Tom Martin]

wow...excellent wonderful story,,best to Jerry



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Re: [MOPO] The New York Times memorializes Jerry Ohlinger!

[MoviePoster Collectors]

But this is a 1960s text group (ha!), so...

Jerry Ohlinger, Colorful Dealer in Film Memorabilia, Dies at 75

By Neil Genzlinger

Nov. 16, 2018



Jerry Ohlinger, the quirky proprietor of a cluttered Manhattan shop that
has for decades been a mandatory stop for collectors of “Star Wars”
posters, photos of Greta Garbo and all sorts of other movie memorabilia,
died on Nov. 10 in Manhattan. He was 75.



The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Bill Marlborough, a longtime employee.



Jerry Ohlinger’s Movie Material Store is said to be New York’s last film
memorabilia shop of a certain type: an overstuffed place where customers
can come and talk cinema but might need help finding what they’re after.



There used to be others — Cinemabilia and the Memory Shop, for instance —
but with much of the collectibles trade moving online, one after another
closed. Mr. Ohlinger hung on, downsizing several times, most recently to
the current location, upstairs at 216 West 30th Street in Manhattan.



Over the years he accumulated a vast collection of memorabilia, much of it
warehoused. At the end of his life he was embroiled in a legal dispute over
that collection with a New Jersey couple, Sean Chatoff and Xingling Hu,
with whom he had struck an agreement involving storage of and sales from
the collection.



The most recent ruling in that case, which has been playing out in courts
in New Jersey and New York, was just a few weeks ago, and the fate of the
collection remains unclear.



Jerry George Ohlinger was born on June 4, 1943, in Manhattan, where, Mr.
Marlborough said, he lived almost his entire life in the same building on
West 78th Street. His father, Alfred, and mother, Celia Hoffstein, ran a
speakeasy at one point, Mr. Marlborough said.



Mr. Ohlinger’s interest in collecting began early, fueled by trips with his
father to the movie houses on Broadway and 42nd Street. He started rather
primitively, clipping pictures out of magazines.



Jerry Ohlinger’s Movie Material Store, originally on West Third Street, has
moved several times over the years. It moved to this location on West 35th
Street in 2004; it is currently on West 30th Street.



 “I never saw a real photo from a motion picture until I was 10 years old,”
he told The New Yorker in 2013. The first movie still he purchased — for 10
cents — was from “The Three Caballeros,” Disney’s animated 1944 feature.



Mr. Ohlinger was trained as an accountant and went to work as a bookkeeper
for 20th Century Fox in New York. That’s when his childhood passion took a
more serious turn.



At Fox, Mr. Marlborough said, “he found that people threw away a lot of
things, so he picked them out of the garbage and started his own
collection.”



He began taking his wares on the road.



“I used to go to a lot of the comic book conventions, which was where I
really started to sell stuff,” Mr. Ohlinger told the website The Culture
Trip. “That was about 1970. Usually I was the only person selling movie
memorabilia. I discovered that people who like comics like movies, too.”



Mr. Ohlinger opened his first store in 1977, on West Third Street. That was
the year that the release of one particular movie altered the collecting
landscape: “Star Wars.”



“That changed the business dramatically,” Mr. Ohlinger said. “People who
weren’t normally interested in collecting movie posters or photos suddenly
wanted something on this title.”



In the mid-1980s he moved to a bigger space on West 14th Street. Business
was booming, seven days a week.



“On Saturdays we could have as many as 8 to 15 people in the store at one
time,” he said, “and on Sundays only a few less. We would need three people
at the counter back then.”



Mr. Ohlinger had hundreds of thousands of movie stills.



“You can really see details that you don’t see in the film, because the
film doesn’t pause for you,” he explained to The New Yorker. Also, he said,
most such images were taken not during filming (because of concern about
shutter noise), but during rehearsals, so they often caught a unique moment
slightly different from what filmgoers saw.



The man was just as quirky as the store.



“I loved him dearly because of and despite all of his peculiarities,”
Dollie Banner, a longtime employee, said by email. “Your quintessential New
York proprietor, but also a singular one-of-a-kind character. Thrifty to an
absurd degree, cigar dangling or left perched somewhere catching you
unawares. The high-pitched voice and even higher laugh. Most gleeful when
he could buy something cheaply and sell it for a top price, even if he had
to wait decades to do so.”



By the 1990s the combination of higher rents and competition from online
traders was putting pressure on Mr. Ohlinger. He tried to adapt by getting
into online sales himself, but kept the store open too. After the building
that housed it changed hands and he was faced with a near doubling of his
rent, he moved to West 35th Street in 2004. By 2014 that space had also
becom

Re: [MOPO] The New York Times memorializes Jerry Ohlinger!

[MoviePoster Collectors]

Er, it IS listed as the 11th article in the Arts section but technically
part of the OBT section:

I put screenshots here:

http://vintagemoviepostersforum.com/discussion/2536/nyt-memorializes-prominent-mp-dealer-jerry-ohlinger/p1?new=1

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 9:17 PM MoviePoster Collectors <
moviepostercollect...@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/obituaries/jerry-ohlinger-dead.html
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> Jerry Ohlinger, Colorful Dealer in Film Memorabilia, Dies at 75
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> https://nyti.ms/2zeG70t?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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> I switched to all digital and this article prominently appears in the Arts
> section, not hidden away in an obscure OBT section
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> Mel S. Hutsonwww.moviepostercollectors.guideCharlotte, NC
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[MOPO] The New York Times memorializes Jerry Ohlinger!

[MoviePoster Collectors]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/obituaries/jerry-ohlinger-dead.html

Jerry Ohlinger, Colorful Dealer in Film Memorabilia, Dies at 75

https://nyti.ms/2zeG70t?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I switched to all digital and this article prominently appears in the Arts
section, not hidden away in an obscure OBT section






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[MOPO] Posters wanted

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Hi,

We are looking for the following posters:

Notorious RR half sheet: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/20592/notorious-r1954-us-half-sheet-poster 

Smiles of a Summer Night Polish poster 

Vagabond Polish poster (without the title: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/37028/the-vagabond-1955-polish-a1-poster 

Jazz Nad Odra 1973 Polish poster
Seventh Seal Swedish: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/25424/the-seventh-seal-1957-swedish-b1-poster 

Persona Swedish: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/21883/persona-1966-swedish-b1-poster 

La Notte Italian locandina: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/20628/la-notte-1960-italian-locandina-poster 

L’Avventrua  Italian locandina: 
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Sonatine Japanese B1: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/26474/sonatine-1987-japanese-b1-poster 

Elaine's Celebration poster: https://posteritati.com/poster/40270 

Night Shrick Howard Stern poster: 
https://posteritati.com/poster/40678/night-schtick-howard-stern-44-wnbc-1970s-us-subway-poster
 


Whew. Tired from all that typing!

thx.
Sam 

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