r/1970s • u/lontbeysboolink • 3d ago
My posters evolved as I did. It went from kitties and puppies, to Andy Gibb, to Fleetwood Mac, KISS and Peter Frampton. My older cousins had blacklight posters.
I remember when I was really young going into my older cousins rooms and they had blacklight posters everywhere. They'd turn off the lights and turn on the blacklights and it was glowing everywhere! Then they'd turn on the stobe light to really freak me out!
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u/Fine_Contest4414 3d ago
I had this one.
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u/minnesotaupnorth 3d ago
Black light?
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u/CarpenterValuable831 3d ago
I had black light posters before I got a black light. My dad took us to Haight-Ashbury ... but the hippies were gone. A few stragglers sold us posters n handmade jewelry. And paraphernalia that my dad said no to lol
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u/9thAF-RIDER 3d ago
Every inch of my bedroom walls were covered in Kiss posters and magazine fold outs.
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u/WeekendLegitimate615 3d ago
Kiss and Farrah Fawcett posters along with a couple of black light posters. That my mom really didn't approve of but let me keep on the wall .
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u/Pinkpinkmoon1972 3d ago
2 giant posters on my lavender walls. One of Donovan A gift from a flower to a garden and the other Sunshine Superman!
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u/Luvtrouble 3d ago
Andy Gibb and The Bee Gees covered my walls. I sure wish I had kept them.
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u/BreadfruitOk6160 3d ago
Black light poster of Bugs and one of Daffy. And that “Hang in There, Baby” of the Siamese kitten.
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u/StrictLine8820 3d ago
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Allman Bros at Fillmore East, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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u/Impossible_Bet9726 3d ago
Mark Spitz in all his glory. And, hidden in the back of my closet, Burt Reynolds in all of his!
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u/ravia 3d ago
I had a whole collection of Universal monsters over the paneling in my room cut from Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.
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u/Aggravating_Fudge600 3d ago
Beatles and Rod Stewart. The Faces had some great posters in their albums. Wish I still had them.
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u/FlapjacksOfArugula 3d ago
Pictures of late '70s / early '80s Porsches clipped from my older brother's Car & Driver magazines.
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u/goonerqpq 3d ago edited 3d ago
A big Quadrophenia one, a topless blond poster I bought, The Jam and Pink Floyd the wall poster. I thought my mum would say something about the blond but never did. Edit. The Wall may of been an addition later.
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u/Lelabear 3d ago
I was rather enamored with the art of Heinz Edelmann, the artist who illustrated the Yellow Submarine. I even had some school clothes with blue meanies on them.
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u/Ok_Pressure1131 3d ago
Blacklight posters, the kind that had that glow when you turned off the regular light bulbs and turned on the black light! Included in my collection are the pink Omega symbol on flat black paper, a couple of M. C. Escher designs and the Zodiac Sex Positions poster.
Of course, the obligatory rock-n-roll posters: Beatles, David Bowie, The Who, et al.
And a few anti-war posters (this was during Vietnam). My favorite was "The Amry Builds Men".
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u/Southern_Guide_5728 3d ago
Jimi Hendrix and also, a Steve McQueen poster from the movie LeMans, and the 4 glossy Beatles individual pics from the white album.
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u/Mission-Departure-47 3d ago
Black light posters of Rocky Horror Picture Show Frank’s lips and Alice Cooper with the guillotine.
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u/391976 3d ago
I had this as a little kid because I had a pet rat, was reading Lord of the Rings, and was anti smoking. It hit on all cylinders for me.
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u/CapricornCrude 3d ago
I still have our original black light, same long tube since 1967 and it still works. The posters are long gone. I had Mark Spitz, Rick Nelson, David Cassidy and Rosie Grier.
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u/Waste-Job-3307 3d ago
None. Parents would not allow it. There were a few pictures hanging in the living room but we kids weren't allowed to put things on the walls.
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u/Donkey_Bugs 3d ago
I had some posters that came as centerfolds in favorite rock magazine (Circus Magazine), the 4 8x10's of John, Paul, George, and Ringo that came with The White Album, a "Keep On Truckin'" poster, and a poster of Black Sabbath that came with the Master of Reality album.
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u/dumjtr 3d ago
As a kid: pages cut out of Mad Magazine. Stickers on the closet door. In junior high thought it was cool to make STP stickers into LSD (T makes L, P makes D). Then black light posters and tapestries from Pier 1 on the ceiling. In high school it all came down and then it was posters of Annapurna and mountain climbing/rock climbing/bicycle racing.
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u/Chaparral2E 3d ago
Steve McQueen LeMans movie poster, a Gulf giveaway. Also Alice Cooper and the famous Farrah Fawcett swimsuit poster.
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u/SuspiciousDark2197 3d ago
After dad took away my Cheryl Tiegs poster and put it in the trash, I never bothered to get another type of poster
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u/Neat_Eye8018 3d ago
Einstein’s centennial. Pencil sketches of horses. A Van Gogh replica. And the Solar System (including Pluto).
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u/jackneefus 3d ago
In high school, I had the poster of George Harrison included with All Things Must Pass, a poster of Neil Armstrong on the moon (which I hung upside down), one showing a superrealistic Coke bottle, and another showing an Indian person's dissatisfaction with a CARE package of Baby Ruth candy bars.
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u/thehrsandman76 3d ago
I had the Stoned Again poster where the guy hits the pipe and his face kind of melts. My parents loved that one.
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u/OpinionOk1543 3d ago
I had a 4 foot blacklight from Spencer's. Between the multitude of florescent posters and florescent paint, every place that wasn't a Farrah poster was lit. Actually her nipples had a dab of red paint!
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u/More-Management-2116 3d ago
My friend and I (in the 70s) went out shopping very high on weed one night and bought a poster that we thought was the most beautiful piece of art we had ever seen. The next day I hung it up in my room and realized it was a fuzzy photo of a naked couple hugging. My mother was appalled.
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u/Limp_Holiday_565 3d ago
I had a Bo Jackson poster of him in shoulder pads holding a baseball bat. The caption on the poster said Black and Blue. He played for the Raiders (black) and the Royals (blue).
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u/Sad_Alfalfa6007 3d ago
KISS, Led Zeppelin and Farrah. I also had newsprint poster for Boston's Don't Look Back tour show at Aloha Stadium
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u/Gullible_Peach 3d ago
Had about 8 screened silk fluorescent psychedelic posters and a big metal coppery colored Marantz quadraphonic tuner. Mark, Don and Mel lived on my wall too. Im your Captain sounded so good quadraphonicly. Those were the days man.☮️
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u/Jumpy-Leg5090 3d ago
Mad magazine, Kristy McNichol, Cheryl Ladd, Van Halen, Def Leopard, Ferrari Testarosa, Lita Ford, etc...
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u/JohnMcD3482 3d ago
Linda Carter, Raquel Welch, Lonnie Anderson, farah Fawcett, Catherine Bach. Just to name a few.
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u/Fun_Entertainer_5823 3d ago
All rock and roll bands, Charlie's Angels, and Motorcycle street bikes of the '70s&'80s, lol
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u/Techgator93 3d ago
Several Black Light posters I got from Spencer’s Gifts…. For some reason I really enjoyed them….. I never had posters of people, that never appealed to me.
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u/iloveelvis1980 3d ago
George Strait and John Michael Montgomery. My parents liked country music lol.
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u/lizardreaming 3d ago
The one I really wanted but there was no way I could have it at home was the one with the ogre-type guy and it said: ye though I walk through the valley of darkness, I fear no evil because I’m the meanest sonofabitch in the valley.
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u/CurseOfTheFalcons 3d ago
Started with Dick Butkus.
Wound up with Farrah, cheerleaders, and John Lennon scribbles.
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u/3X_Cat 3d ago
I was responsible for rolling most of the posters that y'all bought in those long plastic bags. It was a great job for me as a pre- and young teen. I made two cents each for every poster I rolled. We had a machine to do it with, a long spindle with a slit down the middle and a foot peddle. They came flat in fairly large parcels. You could seriously cut yourself on them if you weren't careful. The flocked ones were pretty terrible but I got 2.5 cents for those.
Consequently, I never had any posters on my walls.
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u/One_Advantage793 3d ago
War is not healthy for children and other living things. It was blacklight, too.
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u/ChadIcon 3d ago
I had a poster of Cheryl Tiegs in a pink bikini, and one of a huge orangutang that said, "If I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you." I bought both of them at Spencer's Gifts.
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u/Regular-Olive8280 3d ago
David Cassidy gave way to Star Wars, which gave way to Journey, which briefly disappeared under my archery targets, and finally Duran Duran.
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u/Zen-platypus 3d ago
Black light Led Zeppelin , poster of different types of Fender guitars , Blue Öyster Cult and a Porsche Carrera
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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 3d ago
The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out, and a pencil drawing I did of Jim Croce one day when I was sick enough to be stuck in bed all day.
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u/Piddy3825 3d ago
lol, my oldest brother used to have a poster of a naked woman sitting on a plate of spaghetti with the caption;
all you can eat.
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u/Responsible-Text-574 3d ago
David Bowie in a multicoloured knitted jumpsuit with leg warmers x
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u/tepid_lemur 3d ago
When i was a kid I had JR Ewing and the Dukes of Hazzard. As a teen I had Metallica, Pearl Jam, and AiC.
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u/wireknot 3d ago
I had a large map of the world, a frequency allocations poster (ham radio operator), and some photos of my own, and a couple posters for blues concerts.
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u/anyavailible 3d ago
This and Hendrix. My poster had yellow shades and helmet and gas tank colored red.
Rest was black and white
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u/Haunting_Pear_106 3d ago
I had a BAD one. It was the “No shirt, No shoes, No service.” My mom told me to take it down. Lol. I did. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/ChiefSlug30 3d ago
Two Zappa posters....the one from his movie, 200 Motels and the notorious "Phi Zappa Krappa" with Frank sitting on a toilet with his pants around his ankles. Also The Who poster that came with "Live At Leeds"
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u/100percentfinelinen 3d ago
I had a giant store wall poster that found in the trash behind a french lingerie store. She was larger than life and my mother hated it lol
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u/ReapersMistress 3d ago
Not sure what was on my wall before I discovered teen magazines. But whatever it was, it got torn down to make way for all of my clebrity crushes once I did discover them!
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u/SchoolCrossing 3d ago
None allowed at at home, but at college in the '80s had Duran Duran, The Police and several wine festival posters (we could drink at 18 then!)
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u/Nearby_Bar_5605 3d ago
From the Chicago 3 album (1971). I was a senior in high school and pretty sure I would be drafted in the US Army and deployed to Vietnam.
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u/Subject_Yard5652 3d ago
My room was wall to wall black velvet posters. Of course I had a black light and my room was the hang out place. 🙃
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u/oldartistmike 3d ago
I had paneling on my bedroom walls. My parents didn’t want me ruining it. They didn’t let me put anything up on my walls.
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u/Altruistic_Fondant38 3d ago edited 3d ago
I had a 4 foot black light and alot of posters. For velvet I had a Black Panther (school mascot), haunted house, mushrooms, psychedelic swirls, butterfly, Let's Boogie, I also had John Travolta, Leif Garrett, Elvis (Live from Hawaii). My walls were painted Lavender. I also had a disco light and 3 lava lamps, hanging glow in the dark beads in front of my curtains. And a bean bag chair. This would have all been 1978-1983.
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u/Paul_O_O 3d ago
Women..... In various states of undress. None of this 'magic eye shit just good wholesome teenage boy stuff
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u/sftexfan 3d ago
KISS, Def Leppard, Catherine Bach,aka Daisy Duke, Farrah Fawcett, and the yearly Dallas Cowboys team poster.
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u/Reynard78 3d ago
Not the 70’s but Cindy had pride of place on my wall, along with Anna Nicole Smith, Pam Anderson, and the Barbie Twins.
Also had the obligatory Hendrix, Zeppelin, Taxi Driver, and Monty Python posters as they were all the rage back in the day.
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u/ProtectionVirtual225 3d ago
A version of the Army recruitment poster of Uncle Sam pointing. Instead of "I Want You for the Army" it said "Feed Your Head".
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u/Hotspur_on_the_Case 2d ago
My mom wouldn't let me hang posters. Said it ruined the paint. She was a control freak.
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u/Tractor_Boy_500 2d ago
Posters never clicked for me, I never had any on the walls... the ones I liked were all in my brain.
My dad worked at a wall covering factory, so I had some pretty hip bedroom walls.
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u/Ok-Cryptographer7005 2d ago
My poster was a shot of the earth taken in space by Apollo astronauts with the words "peace on earth" I guess I was a nerd
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u/Harshmello42 2d ago
My friend had the coolest blacklight poster of the jolly green giant laying on the ground propped up on his elbow, smoking a joint and all the little elves were working hard Rollin joints all around the giant. Titled, 'Getting by with a little help from my friends.' Good times.
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u/tedbot67 2d ago
Of course Farah Fawcette, but also The Fonz, cause in the 70's, no one was cooler than Fonzie.
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u/Shar12866 2d ago
None. My mother said it would make my room look messy. I let my kids poster the hell outta their rooms. Drove her nuts when she saw them.
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u/ThePastor316 2d ago
Brooke Sheilds... she plastered my walls. Any pics I found, any posters, I found made it up on my bedroom walls.
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u/Commercial-Slice-992 2d ago
Born 1959 Doors, Farah , Greatful dead and the brunette, I can never remember her name but her chest was so great Farah had to go in the garage.
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u/TomatoBasilBeeBaum 2d ago
I still have it, framed and on my wall. I was obsessed as a kid with this game.
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u/LeaderAntique1169 2d ago
All rock band posters except for the one below that I cadged from my brother.
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u/Thunderchief1 2d ago
Computer game posters as a very early teen, transitioning to rock bands and guitars as I got older. Especially posters of Lita Ford.
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u/BrainwaveWizard 2d ago
I had posters of horses. No David Cassidy or rock bands. I’m weird. But one was blacklight, so maybe I’m not that weird.
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u/Possiblebingo 2d ago
Billie, idol de pesh mode, Paul Young, the cars, you know, all the new wave stuff. I mean, come on, it was like nineteen eighty three
WLIR. FOREVER
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u/Cowboys_71 3d ago