Monster A GoGo's Shock-O-Rama Poster Show

Hello. Since I am such a movie poster freak, I thought I'd give you a (not so ) brief history of how my obsession has shaped my life. (In other words, another "blog" entry no one will ever read. Ha!) I have been enamored with movie posters since birth...or soon after. Digging movies went with it, of course, but I remember spending hours staring at the movie ads in the newspaper and at the posters of coming attractions in the lobby of the local theaters. I remember when I was a kid that I discovered you could actually (WHAT!?! NO WAY!!!) buy movie posters at a few of the local comic book stores. That's where my first taste of collecting came from. My first poster was for "Logan's Run" (a movie that had great sentimental meaning for me. One day during a matinee, the projectionist invited my friend and I up into the projection booth of this beautiful old movie house--long since gone dark and ruined--and I got to watch part of the film from there.Wow!)

I am a nut for vintage movie posters. I have been collecting them for more than 40 years.  I was alone in my hobby for most of those years, but then I discovered a wonderful website, All Poster Forum , and I was finally able to chat with fellow collectors, share my collection, and ask questions. It was/is a great cyber community and I love being a part of it.  On APF, I had my own thread where I shared my collection and updated it frequently with new additions. In the 2 1/2 years I had my thread, I had more than 50 pages of entries. I was constantly working on my thread---preparing posts, taking pictures of my poster collection and updating when I'd get some things hung up in my house, etc. It got all consuming and I had decided to more or less take the summer off. I was still collecting, but I was trying to focus my new purchases on things I really "needed" instead of just buying stuff of mild interest that was cheap. And then, sometime last week, the si