Chuck's post reminded me of a source for vintage posters I came across at a local antique fair recently.
They are located in Oakland, CA in the Glenview neighborhood I used to live in. Never knew they were there.
At the fair, they had a wonderful selection of posters of all sorts, mostly very large posters. I inquired after bicycle posters and they indicated they had recently acquired a collection and proceeded to show me about a dozen different posters, all quite large. All were pre-WWII, not my interest but perhaps to some on this list.
They explained their process of archive-standard care for the posters including washing and mounting on a linen backing. Prices were signficant, about what you might pay for a vintage bike, but beautifully presented, marvelous graphics and colours. Very nice people too.
The skinny: Only original posters from 1880-1960, no gallery.
Vintage European Posters (510) 530-3353 vintageposters@vepca.com
-- John Siemsen San Luis Obispo, CA
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:44:35 -0700 From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]Coors Classic poster boy? Message-ID: <67A5AB93-8E56-481D-89FC-1BFF840F332A@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 2
I was looking at Brett Horton's great web site tonight <http:// thehortoncollection.com> and came across this 1980 Coors Classic poster: <http://thehortoncollection.com/PreFabPosterWebPages/ PostWar1984/0073.jpg>
I'd forgotten all about modeling for the poster (the illustrator was a friend and needed some reference photos for his illustration). Senior moment; it was like I'd never seen the poster before!
That was me on my long gone champagne colored Masi GC (wish I had that bike now).
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, Southern California