Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

[BobHufford]

A junk peddler friend sold me this 1941 map for 10 bucks several years ago. A person who specializes in old paper tells me it’s not worth much, but I dig it anyway. If another copy exists, I’ve never seen it.

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At first glance I figured that had been printed in Texas!

 

[BobHufford]

1913 Percheron pedigree -- 19" x 20".

 

[tonyb]

At first glance I figured that had been printed in Texas!

It shows the boundaries and the years in which most of the West was acquired, and from whom. (The Natives aren’t mentioned.)

If we were taught any of the particulars of western expansion (with the exception of the Lewis & Clark Expedition) when I was a kid, it certainly left no lasting impression on me.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Repo from the original but I would like to see the original for color.

 

[tonyb]

Not deserving of its own thread, so I put it here.
The book has just enough text to cover the basics of streamline moderne’s origins and stylistic conventions, and hundreds of full-cover images of commercial artworks.

 

[tonyb]

I had almost forgotten that I still had this poster until thoughts of the late Hoyt Axton crossed my mind.

It was on a top shelf in the garage, where things go to be forgotten. It was rolled up under a thoroughly desiccated rubber band.

I don’t recall when and where I got it, but it must have been not long after the record album’s 1977 release.

Yes, it’s in rough shape — torn and wrinkled. I wouldn’t mind having a cleaner example, if I could find one (not the likeliest prospect), but my history with this one counts for something. So I’ll be framing it and calling it good.

I’m a fan of Hoyt Axton (besides penning some memorable songs, he was close to perfect in “The Black Stallion” and “Gremlins”). And the GMC Scenicruiser was pretty darned cool, too. I have fond memories of traveling in them long ago.

The poster is 24 by 24, so four times the size of the record album it was promoting.

 

[tonyb]

I had almost forgotten that I still had this poster until thoughts of the late Hoyt Axton crossed my mind.

It was on a top shelf in the garage, where things go to be forgotten. It was rolled up under a thoroughly desiccated rubber band.

I don’t recall when and where I got it, but it must have been not long after the record album’s 1977 release.

Yes, it’s in rough shape — torn and wrinkled. I wouldn’t mind having a cleaner example, if I could find one (not the likeliest prospect), but my history with this one counts for something. So I’ll be framing it and calling it good.

I’m a fan of Hoyt Axton (besides penning some memorable songs, he was close to perfect in “The Black Stallion” and “Gremlins”). And the GMC Scenicruiser was pretty darned cool, too. I have fond memories of traveling in them long ago.

The poster is 24 by 24, so four times the size of the record album it was promoting.

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[Woodtroll]

I had almost forgotten that I still had this poster until thoughts of the late Hoyt Axton crossed my mind.

It was on a top shelf in the garage, where things go to be forgotten. It was rolled up under a thoroughly desiccated rubber band.

I don’t recall when and where I got it, but it must have been not long after the record album’s 1977 release.

Yes, it’s in rough shape — torn and wrinkled. I wouldn’t mind having a cleaner example, if I could find one (not the likeliest prospect), but my history with this one counts for something. So I’ll be framing it and calling it good.

I’m a fan of Hoyt Axton (besides penning some memorable songs, he was close to perfect in “The Black Stallion” and “Gremlins”). And the GMC Scenicruiser was pretty darned cool, too. I have fond memories of traveling in them long ago.

The poster is 24 by 24, so four times the size of the record album it was promoting.

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The original "Honeysuckle Rose", I believe, that he bought from Commander Cody.

Hoyt was a great songwriter, singer, and entertainer. He always seemed to be a humble, sincere person, but I always picture him with that mischievous grin he had.

 

[tonyb]

This is the only image of the bus in Commander Cody livery I could find. Blurry, but it’s there.

I’ve read that the late George Frayne, aka Commander Cody, bought the bus from Willie Nelson, but I found but one source for that, which itself appears anything but unimpeachable, so take it with a grain of salt.

Willie names his succession of buses Honeysuckle Rose. Hoyt Axton did a live routine (you can find it online) about traveling in a retired Greyhound bus he called Honeysuckle Rose.

I have a couple of friends, my age and older, who pick up work driving what are called “entertainer” buses. They’re essentially bunkhouses on wheels, with comfort and sanitation facilities and little kitchens. These old fellows have opinions about buses, not all of them favorable.

 

[GHT]

Those early pioneering passengers were a hardy lot. That Sikorsky aircraft looks like a cure for constipation!

 

[Woodtroll]

This is the only image of the bus in Commander Cody livery I could find. Blurry, but it’s there.

I’ve read that the late George Frayne, aka Commander Cody, bought the bus from Willie Nelson, but I found but one source for that, which itself appears anything but unimpeachable, so take it with a grain of salt.

Willie names his succession of buses Honeysuckle Rose. Hoyt Axton did a live routine (you can find it online) about traveling in a retired Greyhound bus he called Honeysuckle Rose.

I have a couple of friends, my age and older, who pick up work driving what are called “entertainer” buses. They’re essentially bunkhouses on wheels, with comfort and sanitation facilities and little kitchens. These old fellows have opinions about buses, not all of them favorable.

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Interesting information! For some reason, my vague recollection told me that Willie's "Honeysuckle Rose" movie was named after Hoyt's bus - that Hoyt had originated the name. But that's an old memory dredged up from years ago, and I may well have it all mixed up.

Hoyt's song about his Honeysuckle Rose is a favorite of mine, especially the live recording.
"She's got a Detroit Diesel, and an air-cushion ride, and she smokes at the top of the hill"..."She's a four-speed lady and she rolls real easy, there's tequila in the driver she loves!"

His story about driving her down the road one night when he "accidentally ingests" some drugs thrown from a passing bus is a riot, too!

 

[tonyb]

Signs identical to this were a frequent sight back in my carousing days (decades, really, but who’s counting?).

I found this one last week at a junktique emporium in Olympia. Cheap frame from Amazon.

 

[BobHufford]

I posted this in the Thrift Store Finds back in 2017. I took it off the wall this week (getting the house replumbed) and thought I’d add it here.

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Found some art for the farm house at the local Goodwill. Solid walnut frame, with a heavy duty backing. This thing weighs 30 pounds!

Apparently this was originally a poster — or part of a poster — (artist John Clymer) for Chrysler dealerships in 1947/48 -- "We aim to take care of our own…".

I was happy with the $12 price on this one.

Amazon is selling a repro of a Life magazine ad with the same art.

 

[tonyb]

I took in the Denver Postcard and Paper Show this afternoon. It was an odd scene — a windowless hotel meeting room, maybe 2,000 square feet, with folding tables on which were boxes full of postcards and magazines and newspapers and posters and matchbooks et cetera. Most of it was overpriced, but I did kinda make friends with an elderly couple selling old postcards for a quarter a pop and this little 30 page storybook for three bucks. This printing dates from 1899, so getting on toward the end of the Wild West era. (“Denver Doll as Detective.” Give the writers points for alliteration.)

I bought half a dozen postcards as well, dating from 1909 through the early 1940s. So I was all of $4.50 out the door.

I couldn’t accurately guess how many postcards in total there were in that room, but it had to be hundreds of thousands, minimally.

 

[tonyb]

Wife’s sister, who still lives out that way, had to jump through hoops to procure this poster for me. They weren’t just handing them out, and they weren’t for sale.

She said the exhibit was just splendid. I won’t be taking it in, though, seeing how it’s closing the day after tomorrow.

 

[Alfons]

Found in a Thriftshop, it has the original markings at the bottom.