# Where's a good place for hard to find posters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488 "2003-10-09T14:34:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/1 "2003-10-09T14:34:54Z")
Every now and again, I’ll see a couple photographs or a poster that really catches my attention, but it’s virtually impossible to find them for sale anywhere. Site’s like [allposters.com](http://allposters.com) and other mainstream ones are completely useless, so I’m just curious, where are some places you look when you want to find one of those hard to find photographs/posters? ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/2 "2003-10-09T15:02:08Z")
[allposters.com](http://www.allposters.com) has a good selection. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/3 "2003-10-09T15:05:56Z")
I’d try e-bay or hook up with a collector’s site. If you have the name of the poster, google it. I bet you’d find lots of options that way. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/4 "2003-10-09T15:27:34Z")
I hope there are other options, because there’s one (movie) I’ve been looking for and haven’t found via allposters, ebay, or just plain googling. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/5 "2003-10-09T16:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*I hope there are other options, because there’s one (movie) I’ve been looking for and haven’t found via allposters, ebay, or just plain googling. \*\* Which one? Betcha one of us Dopers can find it for you. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/6 "2003-10-09T16:26:28Z")
It’s the movie **Ice Cream Man** , starring Clint Howard. > **[Ice Cream Man (1995) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113376/)** > > Ice Cream Man: Directed by Norman Apstein. With Clint Howard, Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee, JoJo Adams. Poor Gregory. After being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So Gregory reopens the old ice... ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/7 "2003-10-09T16:44:49Z")
So far, I’ve found [one](http://www.moviegoods.com/search2.asp?find_spec=Ice+Cream+Man&Go2.x=19&Go2.y=11) place that has it, but they’re out of stock. You might be able to special order it, from a link on that page. I’ll keep looking. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/8 "2003-10-09T16:55:40Z")
I emailed them to ask them how much it would be if they did have it… so we’ll see. I think I may have looked at that site before, but since they didn’t have it, I moved on. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/9 "2003-10-09T17:23:20Z")
You weren’t kidding about it being hard to find! And why do 80% of the sites claiming to sell posters actually link back to [allposters.com](http://allposters.com)? Grrrrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/10 "2003-10-09T18:04:11Z")
Trying the **Otto** method there **clayton\_e**? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/11 "2003-10-09T19:33:03Z")
I like how I mention that “[allposters.com](http://allposters.com) is useless”, and the first suggestion is [allposters.com](http://allposters.com). I managed to find a site a long time ago with a great print from Marilyn Monroe’s shoot “The Last Sitting,” and an ebay search managed to pull a couple of other smaller prints up, but it’s the same two over and over again. So, obviously, there are a few prints out there, but google searches and all the trendy places don’t have anything but the same thirty or so posters, none of them what I’m looking for. The site I got mine off of was a collector’s site, I believe, but it was so long ago, I don’t remember what link it was. Does anyone else know of any other such links online? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/12 "2003-10-09T20:09:47Z")
A good place to locate hard to find posters? You could try checking [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=216309)… ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/13 "2003-10-10T00:40:05Z")
Jerry Ohlinger’s Movie Material Store in New York City. ( I think he’s on 14th Street) I cannot Google him while on SDMB ( damned Macintosh/I.E. ). However, they are listed and doubtless have a Web presence. Jerry’s is without question one of the most exhaustingly in depth collections. He has One-Sheets ( standard sized movie poster ) as well as half sheets, two sheets, lobby cards and black and white stills. You can’t find it?? Jerry has it. He will have seven of them, in varying degrees of condition. Amazing place. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/14 "2003-10-10T00:46:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*Trying the **Otto** method there **clayton\_e**? \*\* ? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/15 "2003-10-10T01:04:30Z")
Where’s a hard place to find good posters? Where’s a good place to find hard posters? To posters: Where’s a good hard place to find? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-a-good-place-for-hard-to-find-posters/206488/16 "2003-10-11T19:00:51Z")
MovieGoods replied to my request for information: > [@](#): > > Hello Dan, > > Thanks for your inquiry. It would appear this movie was released straight > to video. Video posters are not very collectible, and as a result, there > aren’t a lot of posters issued for these titles. Most dealers don’t even > carry video posters in their inventory. Unless the movie has been released > in the past 3 months or so, finding a video poster can be quite difficult, > if not impossible. There are exceptions to this rule, but it depends on the > title in question. > > The best thing I can recommend would be to send your daytime contact > information along with the poster you’re interested in. There are no > guarantees, but if we ever come across this poster, we can contact you and > let you know. > > I’m sorry I could not be of more assistance to you. > > If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. > > Sincerely, > > Derek Medve > Department Head > Customer Sales and Support > MovieGoods, Inc. Well, that’s pretty helpful, since I didn’t realize it was a straight-to-video movie. I’ll send him my day info. You never know. (The only reason I want it is that my brother specifically asked for it for Christmas one year - for some reason, it’s one of his favorites.)