Had a couple that came with albums, some I made myself, but those would come and go, Kong stayed up through my teenage years.
Only one motorcycle poster and it was fairly small; say 20x14? I did have a couple thick board “big eyed kittens and puppies” though.
A local grocery gave them away for one reason or another for a few months.
I never owned this poster, but I remember seeing it in a travel agent’s window when I was in high school, and I could not stop staring at it.
I was absolutely stunned by the shear unadulterated sexiness of it. Of course, it probably helped that I was a 16 year old boy at the time.
I only remember one. It was Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz, wearing his Stars and Stripes speedo and 7 gold medals.
The Endless Summer poster. (Without the watermark of course.)
“Hey, did you guys see that El Rollo?”
A blacklight sunburst poster.
Can’t find a link. Blacklight poster of an old print of the interior of the Palace at Versailles. That one really glowed in blacklight.
Maps. A classic centuries old map of the world. One for Nat. Geo. showing John Glenn’s path. I used that later one to mark DXed SW stations.
Frank Frazzetta : FrankFrazetta.org
Also later I was a water ski enthusiast. Farrah Fawcet posed for a Maharaja Water Ski poster (topless) before she was famous. I had that one too.
The Human Vapor - https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/de/43/02de430fbe9116f12d0450ee5fb0e53d.jpg
Wild, Wild Planet - https://hulumov.com/image/poster_1/img_1824.jpg
Journey to the Lost City - https://img.moviepostershop.com/journey-to-the-lost-city-movie-poster-1960-1020250092.jpg
Still have all of these (and plenty more), but only the Escher is on display.
I never owned it, but I was fond of the one with a photo of a Delorean with a bumper sticker that said “Things are better with Coke”.
I remember the days when every Computer Science major had a poster of Snoopy, composed of printer characters. Alas, ASCII artwork was out of fashion by the time I got to college.
You were supposed to say “I’m not dead yet.” That’s the problem with the Dope these days, lack of Monty Python quotes.
Anyway, the one I had on the ceiling of my dorm room was Raquel Welch in 1,000,000 years BC - and I wasn’t the only one.
You can still buy it for not much.
^ Comes in handy when you’re executing a jailbreak.
I had this one up in my bedroom when I was about 16. My parent thought there was something wrong with me.
I do remember that one where the two train tracks don’t meet.
I too had Mark Spitz. Altho’ it was my older sisters first. Other than that I had Beatles,Beatles,Beatles. And a British Flag my older brother got for me in London. What can I say, I was a late hippie. I still have the Flag hanging in my bedroom.
Fuck it, I know this is The Mother Of All Zombies, but this story belongs in this thread!
A few years back (not as long as the OP!), my wife was in a thrift store and found a huge box of those posters from the '70’s. She worked a deal and got the whole mess for about $50.
:eek:
I told her when she got home that was the most expensive wrapping paper we would ever have!
Well, she goes on eBay and puts up Paul Michael Glaser. You know, from Starsky and Hutch.
99 cent opening bid.
Goddamn thing sold for over $80 dollars! :eek:
She got nearly that much for a Lee Majors (to his current wife!). Go figure.
And she had** hundreds **of these things (not all PMG, but Cassidy Boys, CHiPs, Farrah, KISS, all that '70’s shit). They raked in the money for years and still are to this day. “Coneheads” are coming back into fashion lately…
That $50 investment in wrapping paper turned out to be a pretty good investment!
Oh, and I got to keep this:
Forgot to answer the question: My favorite poster was titled “Air Racer”, and was very similar to this, but I can’t find the actual image
The poster was (is)* much better, because it captured the car with the suspension perfectly neutral, so it really looked like the car was levitating.
*It’s hanging in my garage!
I’m so ashamed…
When I was a pre-teen, I was very into blacklight posters. I got a poster a lot like thisfrom my uncle, who was 14 years older than me. He’d been happy to give it to me when his parents redecorated his old room.
I was also very into images of Sol Lewitt’s geometric sculptures (like this) and block prints by Inagaki Tomoo. (I got lucky enough to have a poster of this piece, Quarrel of Cats. I don’t think it was that particular rare poster, but the central artwork was the same. It’s still my favorite Tomoo print.
In my first year of college, I was very into Alex Gray and MC Escher. So I had various pictures, each about 11" x 14", from an Alex Gray calendar. I also had cheap posters of a few different MC Escher images.
I wanted this big, long image from the Metamorphosis series, but it cost far too much, and I didn’t have enough dorm wall space for it. Alas.
I also started getting into interesting textiles in my first year of college. I still have a thin woven tapestry thing from Guatemala that I bought from one of the other people on my floor in my freshman year. It’s still really cool. I had it hanging up on my kitchen wall in my last apartment.
My sister and I shared a bedroom (late 60s-70s). Our walls were covered with Tiger Beat and 16 magazine posters. Beatles, David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Osmonds, Monkees, etc. Every issue had more posters. My dad would get so mad. We’d be in our room hanging the newest posters, pounding in nails and tacks and I’d hear him yell from afar, “pound, pound some more holes in the walls”. But he let us continue with our decorating. I’m surprised there was any sheetrock left! Later when I was in high school the black light posters went up. Also Kiss, Frampton, Zeppelin, Boston.