Due to having just read the tshirt thread, I misinterpreted what the “Oldest poster” thread was about when I first saw it. So here’s the thread I thought that thread was, and a poll.
The oldest poster currently hanging on your wall was acquired in the:
1970s or earlier
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
I don’t have any posters
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My oldest poster is a movie poster from the 1997 Star Wars re-release. I got it at a gift shop at one of the Orlando area theme parks during a marching band trip in high school. I put it in a frame after I moved into my first grown up apartment, and it’s still hanging on my wall in my bedroom.
I have a poster on my wall that shows Humphrey Bogart, in his “Mr. Allnut” garb from The African Queen, (1951) opening a wooden crate of bottles of Gordon’s Gin. I got the poster at a liquor store in the 70s. The photograph was clearly taken in the 50s. So I’d need a judge’s ruling whether this counts as a 60-something year old poster or a 40-something year old poster.
ETA: This movie always makes me cry. Specifically, the scene where Katherine Hepburn is pouring all the booze overboard! Ouch!!!
The only poster hanging on the wall we bought in 200x and it’s of Stanserhorn, taken from the other side of the mountain. There are 4 pictures, one per season.
The oldest poster is in the cellar and that’s of the Olympic mountains. It was a gift which I received for my college dorm room. I received it in the late 1980s.
And I just remembered it’s finally possible to order made-to-measure frames online. Time to spend some money.
Late ‘70s-early ‘80s Kliban ‘Momcat’ poster, bought and framed in Boston. Now hanging in my bathroom reminding me of my all time favorite role in life.
I have a poster from the 1969 12 Hours of Sebring that I got at the race track when I attended that race my senior year in high school. At the top it says, “March 22, 1969.”
Two of my posters are framed and are leaning against a wall in a closet because I do not have room for them to hang on a wall. They are from Night and the City (1950) and Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951).
My oldest only dates from 2016. It’s a panel from a Krazy Kat Sunday. I found the image online and copy and pasted into the printer’s website. I ordered a 2’ x 3’ poster and I fully expected to get an abstract poster with giant pixels. Instead, the picture is so clear and detailed, you can see the texture of the paper and nuances in the inking. It’s beautiful.
I have no posters. The oldest piece of artwork I have was painted in the 1940s and came to me in the 1990s. The earliest art acquisition I still have was bought in the middle 1980s.
Sort of a poster. I have an actual page from the county land plat book that shows my property. It is from 1927. The house was built in 1925 and sits in the middle of a square acre of land with the perimeter planted with oak and maple trees. They are now 80 - 100 feet tall and the maples are slowly dying off.
The page is hand written over the printed background with the landowner’s names. Various sections are in different pastel colors. There are a few strike-throughs and areas pasted on where there were big changes like a developer who bought acreage and divided it up with new streets. I assume the page was removed and replaced with an updated one because of all the pasted over parts since I can go down to the county office and view the entire book.
