Hot diggity! I can't seem to resond on my phone or iPad. I am finally home (I was gone for 3 months, back briefly, then left again for a while...) and can respond. Nice last post! TEENAGE THUNDER is fun, but my fave is SPEED TO SPARE. "Speed demons grin at destruction for a single smile from a blonde." Ha! Love it!
It seems as if it's time already to get caught up with some recent purchases. Unusually for me, all but one are actually movie posters or movie related. Let's have a look:
This one is a hand painted lobby out of Minnesota, from the Minneapolis Theater.
For the most part, I've only collected posters from this franchise that are more about the cars than the people. This one is from the fourth installment, I believe:
A bit of a throwback here. This is a 1 sheet and not a 24x36 reprint, although I haven't given it a close look yet to make sure it isn't a 1 sheet reprint. I have a bus shelter poster for this, but the 1 sheet will be a bit easier to display.
I'm not quite sure what this poster would've been used for. Lobby display perhaps? If it was a commercial print, it seems like it would've been rolled. It's just under half sheet size at 23x18-ish inches:
This is the only non-movie poster on the list today. It's from AAA and printed in 1948. I like the stylized artwork. Kinda like pop art well before pop art was a thing:
Next up, I bought another lobby card set for Hot Rod Gang, this one in better condition than the last. The only notable thing about this purchase was that it came with it's original envelope. It's pretty beat up, but it's cool to have it:
This one was more or less an impulse buy. I don't really collect whatever genre this is, but it was cheap, zombie themed and Allison Hayes:
This one is a lobby, and was advertised as a reprint, but I can't find any other examples of a lobby, lobbies or posters. It can't just be a one off, so the mystery remains:
And lastly for today, this is one of the big ones on my list that I can finally check off. Not a holy grail I suppose, as they're scarce, but not impossible to find. A quick glance at the pressbook Bruce has listed in the archives looks like there was no 6 sheet for this title, so the 3 sheet is as big as it got. No matter how you slice it, I'm chuffed to have it:
Sorry for the mega size there. I cut down the original size by 50%, but it's still pretty big.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Nice new batch-o-rama! The SPECTRE one I believe was a car ad--not so much a movie ad--that tied in the fact that those cars are in the (then) new Bond movie. Maybe on display at car retailers? Car shows?
The lobby cards in the original envelope is cool. HOT ROD is amazing. My fave though is HOODLUM GIRLS and TEENAGE JUNGLE! Yowza! So teensploitatively COOL, Daddy-O! Congratulations!
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This one is a hand painted lobby out of Minnesota, from the Minneapolis Theater.
For the most part, I've only collected posters from this franchise that are more about the cars than the people. This one is from the fourth installment, I believe:
A bit of a throwback here. This is a 1 sheet and not a 24x36 reprint, although I haven't given it a close look yet to make sure it isn't a 1 sheet reprint. I have a bus shelter poster for this, but the 1 sheet will be a bit easier to display.
I'm not quite sure what this poster would've been used for. Lobby display perhaps? If it was a commercial print, it seems like it would've been rolled. It's just under half sheet size at 23x18-ish inches:
This is the only non-movie poster on the list today. It's from AAA and printed in 1948. I like the stylized artwork. Kinda like pop art well before pop art was a thing:
Next up, I bought another lobby card set for Hot Rod Gang, this one in better condition than the last. The only notable thing about this purchase was that it came with it's original envelope. It's pretty beat up, but it's cool to have it:
This one was more or less an impulse buy. I don't really collect whatever genre this is, but it was cheap, zombie themed and Allison Hayes:
This one is a lobby, and was advertised as a reprint, but I can't find any other examples of a lobby, lobbies or posters. It can't just be a one off, so the mystery remains:
And lastly for today, this is one of the big ones on my list that I can finally check off. Not a holy grail I suppose, as they're scarce, but not impossible to find. A quick glance at the pressbook Bruce has listed in the archives looks like there was no 6 sheet for this title, so the 3 sheet is as big as it got. No matter how you slice it, I'm chuffed to have it:
Sorry for the mega size there. I cut down the original size by 50%, but it's still pretty big.
As always, thanks for having a look.