Posters on Walls

On this page we have fun with groupings of old concert posters on somebody’s wall. It can be a public establishment like an old record store, promoter’s office or restaurant/bar (but beware: reproductions are commonplace), or a fellow collector’s music room.

One of the best examples we have is Down Home Music in El Cerrito, CA – a record store seen as it was in the early 1990s, not today. Sorry the photos are a bit fuzzy, but the fun is clear for all to see, and every single poster is an original.

Please submit any pictures you might have like this, whether it’s a friend's house, a dance hall or a record exec’s office. Just know that we focus on the 1960’s or older. And remember, I pay top dollar for original concert posters of this nature!

Details on a few select posters shown here: B.B. King and his Sensational 10 Piece Band In Person at the Pleasure Pier Marine Room in Galveston, TX on July 20, 1960 (see this B.B. King poster in much greater detail); “The idol of the Beatles and the Animals” Chuck Berry, plus “the Hound Dog girl” Big Mama Thornton, “the guest stars of Shindig” the Chamber Brothers, and “the Louisiana Mojo Man” Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Berkeley Community Theatre in Berkeley, CA on Feb. 27, 1965; “Jumping George” Presents Big Joe Turner (“Honey Hush,” “TV Mama”) and Smiley Lewis (“Blue Monday,” “Down the Road”) at the Veterans’ Memorial Bldg. in Vallejo, CA on April 16, 1954; “The deacon of the tenor sax” Big Jay McNeely plus five support acts at the So. Gate Arena in an unknown city on Oct. 17, 1952; Little Milton and his Orchestra (“We’re Gonna Make It,” “Blind Man”) at the G&M Pleasure Spot in La Marque, TX on Dec. 17, 1965; and Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys at Napredak Hall in Santa Clara, CA on May 10, 1963.