Posters with a spine of steel.

Clyde McPhatter Concert PosterClyde McPhatter opens the 1959 Rock 'n Roll Jamboree with Erskine Hawkins' orchestra — plus Mickey Rooney up on the screen.Vintage Music Posters · view → Brenda Lee Concert PosterBrenda Lee in person, five shows in one Sunday — a pink ribbon banner unfurls her name across the Rochester Auditorium bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Ray Charles Concert PosterRay Charles and his new big orchestra with the Raelets — Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and The Coasters fill out the Regal bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Grand Ole Opry PosterTwenty of the nation's top-rated Grand Ole Opry stars in one Arcadia Theatre grid — Ernest Tubb's face among the portraits.Vintage Music Posters · view → The Temptations Concert PosterThe Temptations, three days only at the Capitol on Halsted — set in a green so loud it needs no spotlight.Vintage Music Posters · view → Miriam Makeba Concert PosterAfro-American Nite at the Regal — Miriam Makeba headlines with Jack McDuff, and the corner declares Black is Beautiful.Vintage Music Posters · view → Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers Concert PosterFrankie Lymon and the Teenagers hit the Liverpool Empire — America's sensational young stars on a red and blue Monday bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Jackie Wilson Concert PosterJackie Wilson in person at the Regal, singing Night and Doggin' Around — his big stage revue set in tall green woodtype.Vintage Music Posters · view → Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Concert PosterFlatt and Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Quartet at Loudon's Court Theatre — sponsored, naturally, by Martha White flour.Vintage Music Posters · view → Grand Ole Opry Country Music ShowThe Grand Ole Opry Spectacular rolls into Wichita — 1959's biggest country stars packed into an Arcadia photo montage.Vintage Music Posters · view → Human Wreckage Movie PosterIt shows and tells all — a lurid thirties sex-hygiene exploitation bill for Human Wreckage, adults only at the Rex, Nashville.Vintage Movie Posters · view → Regal Theater Holiday SpecialEight big days from Christmas to New Year — Gene Chandler and the Staple Singers headline the Regal's holly-trimmed holiday special.Vintage Music Posters · view → Gene Pitney Show Concert PosterThe Gene Pitney Show stacks Len Barry, the McCoys and Chad & Jeremy into a photo-checkerboard Liverpool bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Hot From Harlem Revue PosterHot From Harlem — a crazy-man-crazy rock 'n roll revue in flame orange, dancers kicking across the Gregory Theatre bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Billy J. Kramer Concert PosterBilly J. Kramer with the Dakotas tops an Epstein package bill — the Kinks, Ronettes and Yardbirds crowd in below.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterDella Reese and Al Hibbler in person at the Regal — Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Art Blakey deep on a jazz-stacked bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Capitol Theatre Concert PosterThe Delfonics star in the Capitol's Clean-Up Week Special — Chi-Lites, Detroit Emeralds and Eddie Holman down the bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Stevie Wonder Concert PosterStevie Wonder plays Stockton singing For Once in My Life — the Foundations and Emperor Rosko share the stark ABC bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Tivoli Concert PosterSpin-time, swing-time revue at the Tivoli — Brook Benton and Ruth Brown bracket a blue-inked Cottage Grove bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Morton Theatre Concert PosterThree June nights at Dorchester's New Morton Theatre — The Coasters headline over Elijah and His Prophets.Vintage Music Posters · view → Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Concert PosterA cartoon banjo picker fronts this Flatt and Scruggs school-night show — St. Joseph, Tennessee, courtesy of Martha White.Vintage Music Posters · view → Country Music Dance ShowCapitol recording stars parade through the Terrytown Arena — a dance and stage show shouted in black woodtype on yellow.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Show PosterMartha Raye, America's queen of comedy, tops a London Palladium variety bill four weeks running.Vintage Music Posters · view → Billy Daniels at The London PalladiumThat old black magic at the Palladium — Billy Daniels headlines over the Wiere Brothers in classic playbill red and blue.Vintage Music Posters · view → Nellie Lutcher Concert PosterNellie Lutcher's name fills half the Prince of Wales bill in fat yellow letters — Bob Hope holds down the bottom line.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Show PosterTed Heath's band, Dick Shawn and Nat King Cole crowd one dense red Palladium variety bill — not an inch of it wasted.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Show PosterCarl Brisson, Frances Langford and Cass Daley stack up a London Palladium holiday bill — every act in a different typeface.Vintage Music Posters · view → Mitchell Torok Concert PosterMitchell Torok headlines the Prince of Wales in regal purple — Shirley Eaton and Dickie Henderson in support.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Concert PosterLondon, back when the poster did the shouting.Vintage Music Posters · view → Sonny Liston vs Cassius Clay Fight PosterListon versus Clay, flash — fight pictures of the heavyweight championship bout, the big punches promised in slow motion.Vintage Posters · view → Alan Freed's Big Beat ConcertAlan Freed's Big Beat packs the Orpheum — Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry stacked in yellow and red.Vintage Music Posters · view → Motown Revue Concert PosterThe Motortown Revue holds the Fox from Christmas to New Year — Temptations, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder in colour blocks.Vintage Music Posters · view → Met Theatre Concert PosterClean-Up Week at the Met on Martin Luther King Drive — the Delfonics and a young Jackson Five share the green-and-red bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Stevie Wonder Thanksgiving ShowA grinning caricature of Stevie Wonder anchors the Regal's Big Thanksgiving Show — the Jackson 5 further down the bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Otis Redding Summer Shower of StarsA summer shower of stars rains on the Leroy — Otis Redding, Sam and Dave and Patti LaBelle in an orange photo collage.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterBoxing-style type, gospel-level energy.Vintage Music Posters · view → 1967 Soul Music Concert PosterLetterpress urgency, metal permanence.Vintage Music Posters · view → Buddy Johnson Concert PosterChicago's only stage show — Buddy Johnson's orchestra at the Regal with Mickey and Sylvia, plus Bottom of the Bottle on screen.Vintage Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterJackie Wilson and the Marvelettes share seven Regal days — LaVern Baker and Tammi Terrell packed into the red columns.Vintage Posters · view → B.B. King & Bobby Bland Concert PosterBattle for the king of the blues — B.B. King against Bobby Bland, two nights only, with Count Basie's band thrown in.Vintage Posters · view → Billy J. Kramer Concert PosterThe Epstein package hits Granada Tooting in shocking pink — Billy J. Kramer over the Kinks, Ronettes and Yardbirds.Vintage Posters · view → Chubby Checker Concert PosterChubby Checker sings and introduces Pony Time at the Regal — the Drifters and Redd Foxx ride the same yellow bill.Vintage Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterMoms Mabley and Etta James lead a Regal January bill — B.B. King, the Impressions and Gladys Knight close ranks below.Vintage Posters · view → Tivoli Concert PosterThe swingingest stage show on record — Clyde McPhatter and LaVern Baker at the Tivoli with Pigmeat Markham for laughs.Vintage Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterPersuasion, back when it was drawn by hand.Vintage Posters · view → The Kinks Concert PosterThe Kinks' name floats in a pink bubble over a yellow Gaumont Derby bill — the Hollies and Goldie and the Gingerbreads below.Vintage Posters · view → Sam Cooke Concert PosterSam Cooke, having a party at the Regal — George Kirby impersonates the stars while the Flamingos and Falcons sing.Vintage Posters · view → Frazier vs. Ali Fight PosterFrazier versus Ali, round by round and blow by blow in color — and not on home TV for six months, the poster gloats.Vintage Posters · view → Charlie Chaplin By the Sea PosterChaplin goes By the Sea — an Essanay one-reeler bill drawn in patriotic red, white and blue with the Tramp mid-stumble.Vintage Movie Posters · view → 1950s Rock & Roll Concert PosterAmerica's greatest teen-age recording stars in one Rochester night — the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran.Vintage Posters · view → BOAC Travel Poster - BritainA white-coated visitor chats up a scarlet-plumed Life Guard — Britain, says BOAC, is one jet away.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Dunure Castle, ScotlandSold a place to people who had never seen it.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Scottish Monarch Flight PosterFrom the era when getting there was half the point.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly to Europe by BOACEurope in hot magenta — a shadowed carriage scene sells the continent, and BOAC sells the flight there.Vintage Movie Posters · view → BEA to London Vintage PosterLondon, as the golden age of travel sold it — flat colour and total confidence.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly by BOAC to AfricaA giraffe nibbles at pink lettering while gazelles bound past — fly by BOAC to Africa, skyscrapers and all.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Rigi Mountain LogoRigi wears a snow-white ruff and a grin — the mountain of central Switzerland as a smiling sun on skis.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly BOAC to ScotlandTwo Highland dancers mid-fling in full tartan — Scotland by BOAC, kilts swinging against the dark green.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly BEA to CopenhagenSold on colour and confidence, long before photography took over.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Le Chevalier d'Eon PosterBold type, plain purpose.Vintage Posters · view → Carnosine Opera PosterCarmosine at the Théâtre Lyrique — robed figures gather beneath Gothic arches in soft stone-and-gold litho tones.Vintage Posters · view → Le Fétiche Vintage PosterLe Fétiche — a puffed-up comic soldier in a bicorne struts through this French operetta stone lithograph.Vintage Posters · view → Le Mage Opera PosterMassenet's Le Mage — a priestess rises through flame and smoke up a temple stair, the title glowing above.Vintage Posters · view → Vintage French Operetta PosterLe Papa de Francine at the Théâtre Cluny — the whole operetta cast piles around a donkey cart in carnival dress.Vintage Posters · view → Chile Travel PosterTwo figures watch a snow-capped volcano across the lake — Chile by Panagra, framed in shadowed jungle leaves.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Bermuda by Clipper Vintage PosterA place, idealised — which is rather the point.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly to Havana PosterFly to gay Havana — a ruffle-sleeved dancer shakes maracas over conga drums while Clippers cross the sky.Vintage Travel Posters · view → India and the Orient by ClipperIndia and the Orient by Clipper — scarlet dragons coil around a medallion of the Taj Mahal on black.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly to Europe PosterEurope compressed into one giant letter E — castles, cathedrals and gondolas stacked inside Pan Am's monogram.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Argentina Travel PosterA gaucho ropes a steer at full gallop — Argentina in watercolour, by Panagra DC-7B.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Triangle Air Tour to HonoluluA holiday that existed mostly in the artwork.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Paris Travel PosterParis-Europe by Pan American — a minutely drawn crowd swirls through the city in storybook detail.Vintage Travel Posters · view → South Africa Travel PosterSouth Africa by Clipper — a lion, a bathing beach and Cape Dutch gables stacked in sunny vignettes.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Fly to France Vintage PosterFly to France — a poised silhouette with an armful of flowers, double-decked Stratocruiser service to Paris.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Scandinavia Travel PosterScandinavia by Clipper — a dragon-prowed longship under a striped red sail, shields along the gunwale.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Pan Am Paris Travel PosterTo Paris by Pan American — the flower-bearing figure again, this time with the city's grey rooftops behind her.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Aloha Hawaii Pan Am PosterAloha Hawaii — a dark-eyed face with a blossom in her hair, framed inside one enormous green leaf.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Vintage Turkey Travel PosterTurkey for the best — a braided beauty smiles from an ornamented border while sailboats cross the Bosphorus.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Japan Travel PosterJapan by Pan Am — a woman in a violet kimono stands tall against the poster's clean white ground.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Mexico Travel PosterMexico, festivals old and new — a serape-draped figure in a wide sombrero on warm adobe tan.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Panagra Travel PosterVaya adonde vaya — a Panagra signpost points every way at once: Europa, Oriente, Argentina, EE.UU.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Italy Travel PosterItaly by Pan Am — a dark-eyed beauty in a knotted headscarf gazes straight down the lens.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Germany Travel PosterGermany by Pan Am — white castle towers rise from storybook green hills under a mustard sky.Vintage Travel Posters · view → South America Travel PosterRound South America — the whole continent in green, dotted with llamas, dancers and Panagra stops.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Japan Travel PosterJapan by Pan American — a tinted photograph of a young woman in a patterned kimono, hair in a perfect bob.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Spain Travel PosterSpain by Pan Am — a flat black sombrero cordobés over white lace, and eyes that have already judged you.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Bolivia Panagra Travel PosterA lone balsa sail crosses Titicaca blue — Bolivia by Panagra, yellow letters over open water.Vintage Movie Posters · view → Calcutta by Clipper Travel PosterCalcutta by Clipper — an ornate white temple spire climbs the frame while the Clipper slips past its tip.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Antibes Travel PosterAntibes on the PLM line — a parasol, a white dress and the whole Riviera bay spread out below.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Golf de la Soukra Tunis PosterGolf de la Soukra, Tunis — plus-foured golfers and their caddy on impossible green, pink city behind.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Vintage Madrid Beach PosterPlaya de Madrid — a diver in canary yellow coils on the springboard, fifteen minutes from the Puerta del Sol.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Cornwall Travel PosterCornwall — a cobbled harbour lane winds between whitewashed cottages down to the boats.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Champagne Masse Pere & Fils PosterLa bonne bouteille — Massé Père et Fils' champagne man in butter yellow hoists his prize from the cellar.Vintage Posters · view → Ouda the European Marvel Circus PosterOuda, the European marvel — a circus strongman holds a one-arm handstand over the Big City Show's crowded bill.Vintage Posters · view → Mt. Fuji Japan Travel PosterPeerless Mt. Fuji — the white cone floats over lake and pine in classic Japanese railway-poster calm.Vintage Travel Posters · view → Japan Travel PosterDeparture boards and possibility.Vintage Travel Posters · view →