Dorm room posters

I had a poster version of this



my Hopalong poster was something like this

I was super dullish in the brief period where I lived in a college dorm. #sigh

this poster also traveled with me through many years of work terms.

no posters?

evah?

Posters during high school (and afterwards). Let me dive into my brain's archive to pull them out to day light.

I never had an interest in posters.

Never.

The closest I got was a thing from the Village Voice years back that was a sketching thing of the village. I recall it showed falafel places every third or fourth store. (It was a falafely time back then). Then there was a campaign sign I took off a lamp post and put up in a window. Aside from those, nothing.

I did however have some carpeted walls...

I lived at home, which was a few miles from campus. Only one poster -


Degas' The Absinthe Drinker. I'd never tasted alcohol back then and didn't know what absinthe was.

I thought it was an interesting painting, even put varnish on it to make it more like a real painting (or so I thought). Bought it at the old Campbell's bookstore in Westwood, the bookstore now long gone.

I had a lot of magazines in my room, including a stack of Sport's Illustrateds and fashion mags and on that I haven't changed all that much over time - just the types of magazines. Well, the internet has made a big dent, but I kept up the magazines until not too long ago.

In students houses, I don't remember so well what I had on the walls. There were definitely some posters - I think mostly about concerts I'd been to, scraping the poster from some wall. I had some nicked traffic signs too. (Ok, a bit of a collection). But I'm having trouble remembering specific posters. Mano Negra was one of them, they were awesome. Some reggae band too.

I remember a couple of the posters I had on my walls at home when I was in high school, though. It's more important at that time, all caught up in defining your identity and all that.. And in some other stuff as well.. I remember a Simple Minds poster (oh dear), "Waterfront" I think. And two Siouxie Sioux posters, one a giant one in garish colours and one with a rather sexy photo by Anton Corbijn.

Oh that reminds me. I did have a poster of a Modigliani painting on my wall when I was a student.

At university (universities), I had a room in a private home - no posters, as far as I can remember.

At home, copies of old charts and maps, two paintings, some 1900 plaster angels.

I can't find the exact image, but it was a lot like this.

now I'm having a flashback to when I discovered falafel

and thought I'd discovered falafel for Canada

ohhhhhh youth

I think it was in the early seventies for me.. from a shop handy to our workplace.. terrific. Possibly a little earlier.

I liked a lot of magazine covers - put some in cheap frames. I've still got a couple here that I first saved about 40 years ago. One is from the back of a reader's digest.

which one?

I've also framed a couple of pages from calendars - one in particular that had an old man and a corgi walking down a lane. That's much more recent though. I might have posted it on here, not sure. I remember giving it to the veterinarian's office, but now not sure if that was after I lost Pacco or Katy - good helpful and kind people at that place.

so right!

Scrolled through Google Images results to see if i'd see it, but no luck.