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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsName some posters you had hanging on your bedroom wall at home or in college. Mine was Jim Morrison at home. What were
yours?
elleng
(131,922 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)WVlaserguy
(44 posts)And Desiderata
debm55
(25,911 posts)lastlib
(23,530 posts)...and still have it.
Also a Cheryl Tiegs.
debm55
(25,911 posts)lastlib
(23,530 posts)(I think the ocean was in the background, but I never paid much attention to that...... )
chicoescuela
(1,054 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)chowder66
(9,175 posts)I wanted to look like her. Plus she looked a little like my aunt.
I also had Elvis, David Lee Roth, U2, the Clash and the B52s.
debm55
(25,911 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(6,050 posts)You have to be as old as dirt to even know who he is! lol
debm55
(25,911 posts)MOMFUDSKI
(6,050 posts)Seinfeld. I just thought he was so cute. lol
bucolic_frolic
(43,876 posts)Breughel, Hunters.
debm55
(25,911 posts)yorkster
(1,603 posts)Otherworldly, yet at the same time conveying immediacy.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Silent Type
(3,334 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)Silent Type
(3,334 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)Ilsa
(61,727 posts)You know, the one with the couple's profile at the top of a precipice overlooking a valley and mountains.
Mister Ed
(5,978 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)AKwannabe
(5,732 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)livetohike
(22,198 posts)Morrison and Warren Beatty all in my dorm room. And a number of day glo posters. Groovy .
debm55
(25,911 posts)Rabrrrrrr
(58,360 posts)and other comic/fantasy art greats, including some of the Hildebrandt's Lord of the Rings.
Pretty much all music and fantasy/comic stuff. During/after college, I started including some movie ones, like the awesome one for the first Keaton Batman movie, and theater/museum, like the poster from the first Stratford Shakespeare Festival I attended. I still have the Batman one, and also added the Star Wars Episode I of the boy Annakin standing by a "hut" casting the shadow of Darth Vader on it. That was a total stinker of a movie, but that promotional poster was absolutely one of the greatest, most creative, minimalist ideas for one. Stunning.
I never found Farah Fawcet attractive, so I never had her poster.
I still have that Star Wars one, an old Zappa concert poster, and a great poster of Zappa from the '88 tour playing guitar, on my walls, and I'm far beyond the age when many people find those things appropriate.
But the KISS stuff - man, there was a shit ton of that on my walls. In high school, those posters started coming down for the fantasy art. Then those came down, and now my walls are almost exclusively original art or signed numbered editions.
But gosh, those old KISS posters were awesome. Really fed my imagination!
debm55
(25,911 posts)calguy
(5,380 posts)Cave man girls wore the skimpiest outfits back then, dontcha think?
BOSSHOG
(37,295 posts)Andy Dufrene had in his cell in Shawshank Redemption?
calguy
(5,380 posts)but it was the first poster I hung in my bedroom. I had so many fantasies about her when I was 16.
Mad_Dem_X
(9,602 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,420 posts)That made it easier to outrun all of the dinosaurs.
debm55
(25,911 posts)calguy
(5,380 posts)calguy
(5,380 posts)I knew there was a good reason the cave men dressed their women like that. Now if I can just figure how their hair always looked like they just visited the beauty parlor.
Aristus
(66,717 posts)The future Mrs. Aristus thought I must be gay to put up posters of Jim Morrison.
If she had seen my bedroom wall when I was in junior high, she would not have thought that.
I had the famous Cheryl Tiegs pink bikini poster up in my bedroom.
debm55
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Aristus
(66,717 posts)I've got a baritone singing voice similar to Morrison's, so I can do a pretty good imitation of his singing (and poetry recitations, too.)
No way in Hell am I wearing those leather pants, though...
debm55
(25,911 posts)sonds were beautiful.
Onthefly
(224 posts)Great poster. I wanted to study fish, but it was not offered at my school. Environmental science and research methods, instead.
debm55
(25,911 posts)IcyPeas
(22,015 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)debm55
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Midnight Writer
(22,001 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)price down. I loved Escher's work. It always amazed me how he came up with his art. Ty Midnight Writer.
True Dough
(17,495 posts)to hang any DU posters on my bedroom wall. They are fellow people with human rights and I will treat them as such!
Next topic!
debm55
(25,911 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 1, 2024, 10:38 AM - Edit history (1)
you know someone is going to give a poster"s name. No, they would not do that, would they? You proved me wrong. Good for you. I guess I will have to take my True Dough poster down.
True Dough
(17,495 posts)is whether I'm clothed in that poster of yours or not???
You're a good sport, debm!
It might have been you hanging on my wall shirtless with button fly style jeans that were in fact unbuttoned.
If that was you, I apologize for objectifying you.
In my defense, I was a teenage girl at the time.
True Dough
(17,495 posts)so guilty as charged, I guess? They were Buffalo jeans. I loved them! Would have been a size 30 waist. Not a chance I'd be getting them on these days!
Niagara
(7,910 posts)This sounds like you were hanging on my wall. I didn't realize that you had previously moonlighted as a male model in your youth.
True Dough
(17,495 posts)A model of foolishness and stupidity!
Niagara
(7,910 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)True Dough
(17,495 posts)Hope they set off my eyes! My best feature!
Prairie_Seagull
(3,384 posts)True Dough
(17,495 posts)like some biblical character! Don't worry, three days later, apparently things get a lot better!
Prairie_Seagull
(3,384 posts)I go 245 and that could do real damage to any wall. I mean,,,I think that is. haha
True Dough
(17,495 posts)drywall screws are for!
bluedigger
(17,097 posts)Room mate had one of Daisy from Dukes of Hazzard so the girls wouldn't think we were weird.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 1, 2024, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)
Niagara
(7,910 posts)I had one Jim Morrison blacklight poster, one Dr. Feelgood Motley Crue poster, and one Bon Jovi chillin' on a Harley.
There's another poster that I had that didn't sit well with the parents.
The only posters that I still have are my Marilyn Monroe posters. One I've had since I was 14 the other since I was 15.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Niagara
(7,910 posts)He was my first music crush though.
I had a screen print t-shirt of him when I about 8 or 9 years old.
BlueKota
(2,045 posts)taken with him. Even though I no longer crush on him like I did way back when, I still relate to a lot of his music. Not the top 40 stuff, which I enjoyed, but the deeper stuff he'd include on his albums. He wrote anti nuclear songs, about child abuse, struggling with religion, etc. He and I apparently view the world in very similar ways even though he's 13 years older than me and was raised in Australia.
I was completely unsurprised when he revealed in an interview that he suffers from severe recurrent depression which I have too.
yellowdogintexas
(22,353 posts)other early 60s guys
debm55
(25,911 posts)Glorfindel
(9,766 posts)yorkster
(1,603 posts)He used to see Fields movies as a kid in the 30s and got a kick out of that poster.
debm55
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Easterncedar
(2,435 posts)Loved Fields. Used to have a copy of his biography. Interesting life. Tough childhood.
debm55
(25,911 posts)edbermac
(15,968 posts)She wound up putting it on the cover of her book
Demovictory9
(32,575 posts)edbermac
(15,968 posts)Underneath that on the left was the original.
Anyway, it was a nice poster to wake up to.
debm55
(25,911 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)edbermac
(15,968 posts)I suppose I could use her pic as my iPhone wallpaper
debm55
(25,911 posts)WestMichRad
(1,367 posts)
for the Michigan bottle return initiative, that I helped gather signatures for and get on the ballot, way back in the 70s. We gathered enough signatures and it passed, instituting our states 10 cent deposit on carbonated beverage containers. That was back before hardly any states had a deposit on beverage containers. My displayed copy lacked signatures, BTW.
What a dweeb, huh?
debm55
(25,911 posts)Thank you WestMichRad for helping to keep the envionment clean.
AKwannabe
(5,732 posts)Later EDDIE VAN HALEN!!!
MmmMmmmm!
debm55
(25,911 posts)happybird
(4,741 posts)My college bf had worked in a record store so our apartment had two really cool enormous promotional posters:
We also had lot art from concerts we attended including a wonderful, large pencil drawing of Jerry Garcia I bought for $10 and had framed. Its been lost to the sands (and fog) of time, though. Plus artwork by a friend and some Dali and Van Gogh prints.
I had one of these which has also been lost. My mom worked at a place that did custom framing. It was not picked up after being there for close to a year and they couldnt get ahold of the customer so the ladies who worked in the framing department asked me if I wanted it. Come to find out, it was an original and is worth a lot of money now. No idea where it ended up.
Gawd help me, this one sold for over $14,000. Last time I looked (a few years ago) they were going for about $3500
https://rockposters.com/products/auction-fd-26-grateful-dead-skeleton-roses-original-mouse-kelley-poster-avalon-ballroom-condition-excellent
debm55
(25,911 posts)Deuxcents
(16,670 posts)Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. Wish I had stopped to take it with me but he needed it more than me!
debm55
(25,911 posts)BigMin28
(1,193 posts)Led Zeppelin poster. Fell in love with Jimmy Page's guitar playing after hearing the Rain Song. Some blacklight posters, and a framed movie poster from Casablanca, a gift from my father when I was 13. I still have that.
debm55
(25,911 posts)NNadir
(33,629 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,828 posts)My display area was limited to the bulletin board over my small desk. And, since I wasn't allowed to 'waste money' on fan magazines, I had to borrow from friends' sources. Lately, I've been enjoying the middle-of-the-night reruns of the old Ed Sullivan show; interesting traipse down memory lane!
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debm55
(25,911 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,894 posts)back in college. . .
debm55
(25,911 posts)Easterncedar
(2,435 posts)I hadnt thought of that in 30 years.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Tarzanrock
(98 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,420 posts)John Coltrane playing a concert somewhere in Europe
...and, for strictly prurient interest, Adrienne Barbeau in a purple corset.
debm55
(25,911 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,420 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,736 posts)Cast B
debm55
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zanana1
(6,152 posts)debm55
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303squadron
(578 posts)It's a black and white small poster, Neil in the fore ground, Danny in the back. Extremely rare, and yes, I still have it.
debm55
(25,911 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,869 posts)Not a poster but small post card on my bullet board
debm55
(25,911 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,869 posts)vishnura
(248 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,602 posts)All on my bedroom walls at home. Why, yes, I *did* grow up in the 80's...how could you tell?
debm55
(25,911 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,602 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)PJMcK
(22,141 posts)In college I had prints of Picasso and Monet.
debm55
(25,911 posts)PJMcK
(22,141 posts)Ever since, Ive had a fetish about framing. A good frame can enhance any picture.
ArtEd, eh? I had to take a year-long Art History course in college. I learned a lot but had some spirited discussions with the professor. He was quite dull and didnt appreciate that I would reference the contemporary music of whichever art period we were studying. The parallels, while not exactly in sync, are remarkable. For example, Picassos paintings look like Stravinskys music sounds. (I believe they collaborated at the Ballet Russe.) No way I could have majored in that discipline! Music was enough abstractions for me!
debm55
(25,911 posts)see wonderful creations that flowed with the music.
RainCaster
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Frank Zappa sitting on a toilet.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,384 posts)The ones that lasted until I joined the Navy were. Many of Bruce Lee, Rachel Welsh, Chevelle SS and Led Zepplin. Spent significant money on posters and music when I didn't have much.
debm55
(25,911 posts)malthaussen
(17,289 posts)The local paper had a big poster of Snooper which I had hanging on my wall from 1968. And I also put up the posters that came with the White Album.
-- Mal
debm55
(25,911 posts)LeftInTX
(26,133 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)LeftInTX
(26,133 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)tacked up that ran down one wall - making a giant poster. Everyone who came by would grab big fat markers to use to write poems or lyrics, doodle sketches, etc, ... so most of the artwork was generated by us. I still have a few chunks cut/torn from the last one that had been hanging before I left college.
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️
Just remembered that I also had Goldfish - also by Matisse
debm55
(25,911 posts)louis-t
(23,354 posts)It was ole Vince himself with a noose around his neck. My Dad made me take it down.
debm55
(25,911 posts)louis-t
(23,354 posts)It was the background and the calendar was below. I'm going to see if I can find an example on the internets.
louis-t
(23,354 posts)with all 12 months below it. Folded in the middle to fit in the album jacket.
LakeArenal
(29,000 posts)And the Beatles 65 Poster that I have stored away but couldnt find on Etsy.
Wish Id kept that velvet poster. Damn.
debm55
(25,911 posts)forms. It's a shame when we have them , we don't think of them as only have worth to us. I like the Beatles one as it is very unique.
marble falls
(58,441 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)marble falls
(58,441 posts)... My mother bought it for me in '67 at a local discount store. No more than a couple of bucks.
I have a whole list of things I've misplaced.
My Salvidor Dali silk tie.
debm55
(25,911 posts)tblue37
(65,683 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)MontanaMama
(23,413 posts)It was in my dorm room because my parents didnt like posters on my bedroom walls at home. I LOVED Kenny Loggins. Still do.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,107 posts)were big when I was in college. I had a big one of Moscow, for some reason, and one or Renoir's "Child in White" that I got when a friend and I visited the Art Institute in Chicago where it was hanging.
debm55
(25,911 posts)yankee87
(2,214 posts)Remember the jaguar, the tiger and I had the Led Zep Stairway to Heaven.
debm55
(25,911 posts)tavernier
(12,497 posts)It is an advertisement for a queen concert at Carnegie Hall.
Queen never played Carnegie Hall, so it was an obvious fake deal, but because it looks like one of those old, black and white pictures on an orange background, I always got a kick out of it and hung it as Kitch. And I do love Queen so its appropriate.
debm55
(25,911 posts)coprolite
(205 posts)in my room with a poster of Raquel Welch from 1 Million Years BC taped to the door.
I paid 5 dollars for the fridge and 25 for the poster. That was a damn good fridge.
debm55
(25,911 posts)woodsprite
(11,961 posts)4 "Big Eye" pictures my mom insisted I hang above my bed.
debm55
(25,911 posts)enid602
(8,734 posts)The Granny Joint poster. A classic.
debm55
(25,911 posts)enid602
(8,734 posts)No, but here is a description. I dont know how to post photos here.
Granny Smoking Joint 1969 Melvin Marshall Hippie Poster. Fun black & white offset lithographic poster of a blissful granny published by Melvin Marshall Associates in 1969 (marked along bottom.) Such an iconic image that there is one in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Collection of Protest Posters.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,538 posts)When I was eight, or so, I asked Pops to bring home a map. He promptly brought home a AAA (CSAA) roadmap of my town. I fixed it to the wall next to me bed and started studying it. Seriously studying it.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,538 posts)Fast forward ten years: I worked a summer at CSAA in 'Mail, Shipping, and Storage' The print short was down in the basement, right next door, and I would visit during my lunch break. The map folding machine totally mesmerized me, "Fwap, frap, fwap..."
wryter2000
(46,292 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)CousinIT
(9,346 posts)debm55
(25,911 posts)I had a collage on the outside of my bedroom door, and RATT was featured prominently in the middle. On the back was Guns N' Roses, who I wasn't really listening to at first. Not everybody remembers, but Appetite for Destruction was out for quite a while before it broke. I had a friend who turned me on to it, as he always seemed to know what was cool. Anyway, I really got into Guns, and then recalled seeing them somewhere before. But where? They were on the back of that RATT poster! So, I spun that sucker around as Guns was WAY edgier than RATT (although RATT is cool too).
debm55
(25,911 posts)Bristlecone
(10,194 posts)Those robes .they cracked me up as a kid and still do.
I know I had others, but I just cant remember what they were. This one lasted the longest.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,375 posts)LeftInTX
(26,133 posts)I stayed in his family home in Rosario, Argentina for a week, with friends from Arizona. Off Avenida Cordoba, the big shopping peatonal. There was a plaque commemorating Che in the doorway of the apartment building. Good times.
BlueKota
(2,045 posts)Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul, Lindsay Wagner and Rick Springfield.
debm55
(25,911 posts)eyewall
(674 posts)Which featured this phony Buddha-quote;
"Don't just do something" the Buddah said,
"stand there".
debm55
(25,911 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,517 posts)The only band that mattered.
debm55
(25,911 posts)Hekate
(91,462 posts)Big poster of Picassos Guernica. Yes, the theme was ending the Vietnam War.
Desiderata.
That was college.
debm55
(25,911 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,874 posts)Was never a poster guy. But, I enjoyed this thread about what other folks put on their walls.