# Favorite poster or posters from your youth **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855 "2003-04-15T12:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/41 "2003-04-16T18:42:26Z")
I had a movie-theater sized poster for the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a large satellite photo montage of the earth from National Geographic, & a sort-of artsy painting of a girl & an eagle swirled together - probably from Spencer Gifts in the mall - the crown jewel of poster stores during that time. Now - If I had the room & the choice, I’d have [Classic Movie posters](http://www.hundland.com/posters/f/ForbiddenPlanet-C.jpg) adorning my walls - at least the TV room. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/42 "2003-04-16T22:04:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*No, You were just too cheap to go out an buy posters and was satisfied with travel angency trash.😛 > \*\* 😛 yerself!! No, I actually spent money on them. I had a cousin who was a travel agent, but she lived in Colorado and I lived in Maryland so I didn’t get any goodies from her, drat it all! ---
**Author:** ![truthbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/43 "2003-04-16T22:55:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Feh. He was no [Bobby Sherman](http://www.bobbyshermanfanclub.net/). \*\* **Eve** , you vixen! Now I’m having dirty thoughts about Bobby Sherman that I thought layed deep within the quagmire of my girlish youth. And I feel guilty for ‘cheating’ on David Cassidy. Mmm, Bobby Sherman!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MamaHen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/44 "2003-04-17T04:25:33Z")
I actually had a poster of the band \*\* Faster Pussycat\*\*. I had a thing for guys in eyeliner back then. I liked the poster so much it moved with me when I got married. Then when I moved back home…well I had it until my last move when it got ripped. Of course as I got older the poster no longer had the best wallspace, I hid it in my closet for years 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/45 "2003-04-17T09:30:25Z")
I had a Frazetta poster of three Vikings duking it out w. swords and axes, with the Matterhorn looming behind them. Later, in college, I had the Barry Smith “Pandora” poster. Now I have a big Frida Kahlo poster, the one with the monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/46 "2003-04-17T10:26:00Z")
Well, if 19 still counts as my youth, then here’s what I’ve got now: [ul] [li]'79 Porsche 930 Turbo[/li][li]Lamborghini Countach[/li][li]Automag RT- it’s a paintball gun I used to use, but the poster’s coming down as soon as I can decide between Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs. Now that I say that, I realized I should just find a Big Lebowski one.[/li][li]LOTR:TTT[/li][li]JT Paintball [/li][li]Metallica-Master of Puppets[/li][li]Lithograph of Marvin the Martian calling the crashed Roswell aliens “amatuers”[/li][li]Bulletin board (background is a map of the USA) with some phone numbers, a xerox of my hands (my mom has a collection of them from when I was about 3, don’t know why these are in my room), picture of a McLaren F1LM, two comic strips[/li][/ul] To go up: two White Sox pennants and another Metallica poster-…And Justice for All. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/47 "2003-04-17T10:30:03Z")
AACK! Posting at 3:45 in the AM doesn’t help accuracy at all. I meant to note that the Marvin the Martian thing is my favorite. My dad got it when he was in Roswell in '97, which just so happens to be the 50th anniversary of the UFO crash. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/48 "2003-04-17T22:27:52Z")
My favorite is pretty much obsolete now. The first word was done in stars and stripes. The second was in red, with a white star on each letter; the C was a hammer-and-sickle. It said, “FUCK COMMUNISM!” ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/49 "2003-04-18T02:37:06Z")
I was a little music yaya in my youth, so had pretty much papered my room with all kinds of music posters, heavy on David Bowie and Frank Zappa photos. I painted the cover of Bowie’s _Aladdin Sane_ on my wall. Had the Mucha JOB poster,( the “head” poster) ;well, quite a limited selection down South. Also, Toulouse Lautrec’s Aristide Bruant poster, pretty easily had those days. My fave was a "Levy’s Bread " poster, subway-sized, from a trip to NYC. mumblemumble about obtaining it … it had a smiling Af-American boy with lit up eyes eating Levy’s Bread. They had a big ad campaign at the time to show how Levy’s Bread was for everyone. When young and innocent, I had the “Hang In There, Baby!” poster of a kitten hanging on a limb. That was everywhere in the 70’s. And, my Mom had two posters on our basement family room walls, also icons of the time; “Beep beep, My Ass!”; Wiley Coyote with the Roadrunner by the neck, and an R. Crumb “Keep On Trucking!” poster. Both obtained during Mom’s post-divorce period during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. As an aside to **Eve** , Thanks for the Mucha memories, and site. If you still like that style, one of my sweet NOLA girlfriends has a nice series of posters, [Mardi Gras themed](http://www.mousie.com). Thanks, **FairyChatMom** for a swell trip down Memory Lane. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/50 "2003-04-18T14:43:43Z")
I had a poster that said [This vacation, visit beautiful Vietnam](http://www.palmbeach-tech.com/pic1.htm). My mother didn’t like the violence, so one day it disappeared. I also had the famous Farrah poster. My mother didn’t like the nipple, so one day it disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/51 "2003-04-18T14:57:06Z")
Well, at least you got to keep the rest of the poster. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/52 "2003-04-18T15:10:25Z")
Who would want the Farrah poster _without_ the nipple? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/53 "2003-04-18T17:30:42Z")
I’m kinda reassured that at least 2 of you have admitted to having Bobby Sherman on your wall, but am I really the only sick puppy that had Sajid Kahn and Desiderata on my walls? 😕 Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story… [the rest of Desiderata](http://www.ameritech.net/users/macler/desiderata.html) take a deep breath, hold it…hold it…now let it out slowly 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/54 "2003-04-18T17:36:38Z")
No posters as a kid. I had a mini-poster of Cat Stevens in my locker at school. In my cube at work I used to have a poster of Monet’s _Waterlilies_ with the words: “Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul” under the painting. StG ---
**Author:** ![cadolphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/55 "2003-04-18T17:38:12Z")
I LOVE Monet’s Waterlilies 🙂 Kathy ---
**Author:** ![randyman1959](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@randyman1959](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randyman1959)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/56 "2018-08-10T20:35:17Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > When I was in college the mandatory posters were an antique style woodcut of the driving of the Golden Spike…except that the two train tracks didn’t line up correctly. The caption was “Oh, Shit!”. > > I seem to recall others of the series as well: one had a steam locomotive fallen on a collapsed bridge into the river, with the same caption. > > They were everywhere in the '70s. At least at my college. Wish I had a copy of this right now. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/57 "2018-08-10T20:45:14Z")
Welcome to the boards! This thread is ancient. All the people who have ever posted in it are dead. We tend not to resurrect such threads out of respect for the fact we can’t do the same for their participants. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/58 "2018-08-10T21:48:05Z")
Hey, I started this thread way back when and I’m still quite alive, TYVM! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/59 "2018-08-10T22:14:07Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Hey, I started this thread way back when and I’m still quite alive, TYVM! 😛 Yeah, like I’m supposed to believe _people on the internet_ when they make claims about themselves. ‘I’m a doctor.’ ‘I’m a genius.’ ‘I’m alive.’ Pheh, liars, the lot of you. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855/60 "2018-08-10T22:27:15Z")
I had a poster of the [“Lost in Space” cast on the Jupiter 2’s upper deck in their silver spacesuits.](https://goo.gl/images/zdG9Lz) (In B&W) Later, I had a poster of one of the “Night Gallery” paintings–[“House - With Ghost.”](https://goo.gl/images/zRwuZH) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-poster-or-posters-from-your-youth/168855.md?page=4)