"What poster did you hang on your ceiling as a kid?" Topic

I had the 6 foot King Kong banner (Willis O'Brian version)on my ceiling. Farah, and a variety of other women on my walls along with various rocks banners and black light posters. Very 70's.

Thanks,

John

I don't think I ever had any posters in my room, on the walls or ceiling. Just a Red Sox banner on the back of the door, and my crummy drawings of tanks and stuff on the big bulletin board over my desk. My wallpaper had all these almost-cartoon-type versions of scenes from "Treasure Island" on it, along with captions describing what was going on in the pictures. I liked it and didn't want to cover it up.

Dave

Farah Fawcett. Red bathing suit. The most famous one. Actually I had about 6 different ones.

Heather Thomas. In fact, here it is! picture Imagine it in 36"x48".

My room was too sweet and traditional to have anything attatched to walls or ceiling.

My Fortress of Solitude (a.k.a. the playhouse,Cindy's barn,etc.) had posters on the ceiling and every vertical square inch that wasn't used for books or storage.

We didn't have access to many 'storebought' posters (especially the more outre ones) but I had Peanuts,Argus motivational posters,centerfolds from 16 and Tiger Beat,Civil War and art prints (Klee,O'Keefe,Munch,LOTS of Maxfield Parrish,Rackham,Deco/Nouveau stuff) and animal posters.

I also had movie posters from Famous Monsters of Filmland (Metropolis,Forbidden Planet,the Universal pantheon,Dark Shadows,etc.) and a substantial amount of 'homegrown' art.

My friends and I copied the stuff we couldn't get otherwise.

We would do reproductions or homages to every comic panel,
album cover or whatever we liked-from Steve Ditko to Peter
Max to George Rozen -and did our own versions of psychedelic
and pulp motifs.

The decor very much reflected our take on the era we were
just-too-young to participate in.

Eclectic,colorful,derivitive,idealistic and rather innocent.

Elvis next to E.T.

Patriotic posters next to photos from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Harlem Renaissance and WW2 posters next to Keene-eyed urchins and poker playing dogs.

We were a little more insightful and infinitely more kitchy
than we knew.

I had a movie poster from "The Black Hole" on my wall.

Was I the only one who loved Debbie Harry. I had 27 posters of her with a 4 foot one on the ceiling. I also had that one with the instructions of what to do in case of Nuclear attack. The last line being "then kiss your ass goodbye ".

I had a big poster of General Aldo from "Battle for the Planet of the Apes", one of the Clash, one of Debbie Harry (I still have a thing for her Mr. Timms), and one of Qadafi with a target super-imposed over his face.

Right above my head was a storage space so there was not enough headroom to hang a model aircraft, that is why the poster of a cowboy roping a steer with a beautiful mountain ended up there, all other ceiling was fighterland.
On the walls, Arnie from Commando, a Viggen fighter and Sven and Porta from Sven Hassel drawn by a buddy of mine.

It was the 60's so I had a wall poster of a naked couple enjoying the Lotus postition from Tantric Buddhism. I had some REALLY pleasant experiences under that poster, but that was then and this is now. Onward through the Fog!

Nothing. I guess I was weird?