What were the "in" posters when you were growing up?

[wickerwoman]

Middle school: New Kids on the Block (blech), JTT

High school: The cover of Nevermind

College: Trainspotting and Mr. Blonde

I had some Salvador Dali posters and this picture:

of James Joyce looking awfully sexy but that was pretty much it.

How about you?

[tango-tee]

1. Che Guevara, Karl Marx and Jimi Hendrix.

Had all three plastered on the walls of my room in my teenage years a looooong time ago.

[DBoon]

36. Blacklight Hendrix in junior high

replaced by Dark Side of the Moon in High School

[tango-tee]

72. My parents caught me just in time...

I was gonna paint my whole room black. And then install blacklights.

[madmom]

78. We did that with my brother's room, hell my mom helped!

[tango-tee]

80. What a cool mom!

I hated my room. Hated it. Girly, white-lacquered goody-two-shoes furniture which didn't at all "go" with who I envisioned myself to be!

[madmom]

84. Yeah, my mom was pretty cool that way. She figured it was our room so what the heck. I guess she

figured if we used our creativity in our rooms, we wouldn't get busted for graffiti, lol.

[tango-tee]

85. Next time you see your mom, give her a big hug from me!

:bounce:

[madmom]

86. LOL, thanks I will!

[av8rdave]

2. Everyone seemed to have that Farrah Faucet poster in my college days

It was pretty hot. Her hair spelled sex, after all.

[Kali]

3. the fluorescent pirate ship, chameleons in that "3D" stick ball (was it an escher?)

farah, kiss, keep on truckin', alice cooper killer (snake poster), disney characters smoking a hookah, woodstack, various peace signs...

remember when you got full sized posters in ALBUMS, man?

[mochajava666]

6. Good list of the seventies - I was in high school at the time

Speaking of album covers, Yes had a lot of good surrealistic art on them.

[begin_within]

15. I had the pirate ship and 3D ball

along with about 10 other black light posters, around 1969 or 1970.

[last_texas_dem]

19. My father had the fluorescent pirate ship!

Actually, I still have it now, along with five or six of his old posters, but my blacklight is broken so it's not nearly as cool. I had no idea it was a popular poster!

[wickerwoman]

40. I've never heard of it before. Is it this one?

It's very cool.

[Captain Hilts]

58. It was a black background colorful black light sketch. It was in all the headshops and music shops.

[Kali]

61. no, but that is pretty cool

it was a line drawing if I remember correctly, black background, lots of colors for the black light

[Captain Hilts]

57. I don't think it was a pirate ship. I thought it was labelled 'ship of peace' because

the flag at the top had a peace symbol on it.

[Kali]

60. you may be right

some kind of old style sailing ship

[Captain Hilts]

64. HERE it is!!!! The "Phantom Ship" black light poster

[Captain Hilts]

65. Is this the ship poster?

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Memorex

[mitchum]

5. "Beep Beep Yer Ass!" with the coyote and roadrunner, Alice Cooper...

holding a snake, The Memorex one

[japple]

7. Bob Dylan, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, RFK, MLK, and

[wickerwoman]

41. That's awesome

(the Big Brother and the Holding Company One). Wish that had been around in my dorm days :hi:

[musette_sf]

8. War Is Not Healthy

For Children And Other Living Things

[TwilightGardener]

9. The Clash's "London Calling".

[skygazer]

10. Peter Maxx posters

Variations of the cat hanging from a tree branch with the words, "Hang in there" beneath.

Black light posters

[blogslut]

11. I had this exact poster on my wall

It was a day-glo/psychedelic cat. I resented those damned Brady girls because until I notice the thing on their teevee bedroom wall, I was sure I was the only one. I also had that day-glo orange/yellow poster with the Serenity prayer.

[Dr. Strange]

12. DS1, MrCoffee, Starbucks Anarchist, temeah, and Midlodemocrat.

Not turtlensue, though. She was never an "in" poster.

[TZ]

59. No I was always an outie!

:P
I bet you had a Sleeping Beauty poster on your wall...:evilgrin:

[Dr. Strange]

63. I did not!

:spank: <--!!!

[NewJeffCT]

13. I'm trying to remember mid to late 80s now

My tastes were a bit eclectic...but, I was post Farrah in terms of high school. I don't remember the most popular scantily clad woman of the era - maybe Kathy Smith in my early college days and Samantha Fox later? I think Heather Thomas was in there as well.

For non scantily-clad women, I don't really remember as the people in my dorms had such varied tastes in music that nobody really stood out - 60s/70s classic rock, heavy metal, punk, new wave, alternative, hard rock.

[Bennyboy]

14. Stoned Again!

[rug]

16. Fillmore East.

[begin_within]

17. This one,

"Hang in There, Baby" and about 12 black light posters, mostly psychedelic and astrological designs. I loved laying on the floor and looking at all of them at night with the black light. I think the cat one above was the only non-fluorescent poster I had.

[PufPuf23]

18. Maybe not "in" but what I recall

Junior High: SF Giants and SF 49ers

High School: Fillmore West/Winterland posters, Frank Zappa on a toilet, Raquel Welch (a gift), Desirata (sp)

College: Fillmore West/Winterland posters, Frank Zappa Apostophy album cover, M Parrish, Esher, and Dali art prints

edit to add on my walls

[SoxFan]

20. Walt Starr

Oh. I misunderstood you.

I had a poster of the Millennium Falcon flying through an asteroid field, along with an early-vintage REM poster. Most of my wall space was taken up with pennants from assorted sports teams. I am one of the few people who has pennants from the Boston Breakers, Arizona Wranglers, and Washington Federals of the late, great USFL!

[LanternWaste]

21. Farrah in the red bikini, the head shots of all four Kiss members,

Farrah in the red bikini, the head shots of all four Kiss members, the Keep On Truckin' guy, anything Star Wars, and any black light poster with a skull or pirate ship.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

79. Love Farrah

Even though she was a bit before my time.


This was more of my era:

[Common Sense Party]

82. Farrah was in a one-piece

was she not? This is what I remember:



This was THE poster of Farrah.

[Taverner]

22. Not sure if it was "in" but I had Samantha Fox (topless), Led Zeppelin and The Beatles

I also had the free Beatles and Floyd posters that used to come with their albums.

[kimmerspixelated]

23. I think the only poster I remember having was George Harrison,

from the My Sweet Lord era, and maybe It's A Beautiful Day?

[hippywife]

24. I had a huge

black light marijuana leaf and that's the only one I remember. :rofl:

[nuxvomica]

25. M.C. Escher was popular, and the one with the caption that read...

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, because I am the meanest son-of-a-bitch in the valley."

[blue neen]

26. The "Patience, My Ass" Vulture poster from the 70's.

That was a big one in our hometown.

[Xipe Totec]

27. This one

[old mark]

28. There were no posters when I was growing up - not till college.

The Doors, Che, several hippie band posters from SF clubs that you could hardly read. There was a great poster that came with a WHO album, but I can't remember which one it was...Maximum R&B....
OK - it was for "Live at Leeds".

mark

[kayakjohnny]

29. This one...

And a bunch of those "black light" posters that glowed in the dark.

Yes, I was a kid in the 60's.

[edbermac]

30. Farrah and Adrienne Barbeau side by side

:loveya: :loveya:

[ornotna]

31. In high school it was this one

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/frank-zappa-toilet-poster-phi-zappa-crappa-

For me anyway. :rofl:

[musette_sf]

32. without looking at the link

I assume this is the Phi Zappa Crappa poster....

[ornotna]

33. Wise choice grasshopper

You are correct.

:woohoo:

[datasuspect]

34. mystery ship black light

the chart of sexual positions coded to astrological signs

led zep

black sabbath

farrah

peter frampton/andy gibb (for my sister)

[wickerwoman]

42. Quick search of google images confirms my suspicion

that leo girls have the most fun.

:hi:

[applegrove]

35. Shawn Cassidy and the Bay City Rollers. I was far too shy to put any

thing up on my own bedroom walls until I was in my twenties. Then I put up a dance poster.

[IcyPeas]

37. Marc Bolan (TRex) and Rod Stewart (the Faces)

2 of the best from the 70s IMO

[bluesbassman]

38. Most of R. Crumb's stuff found a place on my walls at one time or another.

Here's a couple.

[carlyhippy]

53. I had that same keep on truckin poster, and the Mr. Natural one

[RFKHumphreyObama]

39. Well

Primary school: Michael Jackson
High School: No idea but I had one of Ronald Reagan and Malcolm X (go figure but thankfully I'm over my Reagan phase now)

[greendog]

43. Roger Dean & M.C. Esher

[Gidney N Cloyd]

44. HS: Gigantic poster that came with the "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" album.

College: Farrah and her little friends.

[Fire Walk With Me]

45. DS1, Redqueen, Billyskank, lionesspriyanka.

They were the "in" posters while I was growing up on teh DU.

What?

[Dr. Strange]

46. What a stupid response.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9362799#9363180

[nickinSTL]

47. I have no idea. DIdn't really pay attention.

I had a few posters. I particularly recall having a HUGE poster of a kitten. Long-hair orange and white kitten. And a large poster of Darth Vader.

[Z_I_Peevey]

48. This one

and this one:



The latter in day-glo.

[TK421]

49. Heather Thomas...this one, my brother had it in his room and gave it to me

[tinymontgomery]

50. Psychedelic Beatle ones, Dylan etc

n/t

[WinkyDink]

51. Multi-colored Dylan.

[carlyhippy]

52. Leif Garrett, Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy, Donnie Osmond, Andy Gibb

all of which I had plastered all over my walls, along with Tiger Beat centerfolds!!

I didn't have these posters, but also the Linda Ronstadt poster with her in roller skates and the consummate Farrah Fawcett bathing suit poster was very popular.

[velvet]

54. I had Martin Sharp's beautiful Donovan poster

Printed on silver paper.




And this Aubrey Beardsley print for Oscar Wilde's "Salome".

[Captain Hilts]

62. I hope you didn't miss our Donovan thread from a couple of days ago. nt

[velvet]

74. I did miss it

Sought out and found it though. Thank you muchly.

[RagAss]

55. While other guys had Farrah...I had this one....

[Captain Hilts]

56. Ursula Undress on the beach. Namath/McQueen on motorcycle. Black light "ship of peace." nt

[zonkers]

66. ...

[rug]

70. . . . .

[geardaddy]

67. In college for me it was these:

and some Hieronymus Bosch ones

[Captain Hilts]

68. Mao? The guy that brought the world the "cultural revolution?" nt

[geardaddy]

69. I studied in Beijing for a year.

What can I say. I was young and foolish.

[Captain Hilts]

71. You are smart enough to have a learning curve.

[geardaddy]

73. I like that flag.

:D

[Catshrink]

75. This one for me

[Kat45]

76. When I was in high school, all the girls had the "Desiderata" poster.

Always cynical, I hated it. I preferred the National Lampoon's recording of "Deteriorata."

I also remember having the poster from a Ten Years After album (I think "Cricklewood Green.") that I think a lot of folks had.

[kwassa]

77. Better Living Through Chemistry

and these other guys.



http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/34/MPW-17004

[mopinko]

81. pat and dick nixon

being president means never having to say you're sorry

yeah, herman's hermits, chicago, few other bands. but i still have the nixon.

[Jamastiene]

83. Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson

Also, there were tons of Menudo posters every-fucking-where. And yes, I had one at one time. They were the "New Kids on the Block" for us antiques.

[Rhythm]

87. Mom and i had differing tastes in wall decor

Mom wanted me to have things like this:






________________________________________________________


I insisted on things like THIS!

[AwakeAtLast]

88. Duran Duran baby!

Good God, did I have it bad for John Taylor. Bad. :loveya: