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Vol 12, Iss 24 Canton, Oklahoma - Has anyone been to a place in Canton, Blaine county, Oklahoma where there is a place that collects and sells old movie posters to collectors? I am wondering if they have a website online?

Canton Lake is the largest in western Oklahoma where the Walleye Rodeo is held every May on the weekend following Mother's Day. It attracts 150,000 to 200,000 visitors to Canton and Canton Lake every day.

There are/were two unique businesses in Canton: File Favorites and Movie Poster Services. This NW Okie has never heard or seen either of these two unique businesses. If someone out there knows of these two businesses or has photos of these businesses, drop us a message in an email or send us a "Google Voice-mail" and tell us about Movie Poster Service and File Favorites.

Is File Favorites and Movie Posters still in business in Canton, Oklahoma?

I did do a Google search online for "File Favorites" and "Movie Posters" and found this information concerning "Film Favorites" that use to be in Canton, Oklahoma.

It stated, "After purchasing Film Favorites in Canton, Oklahoma, he decided to move the business to Houston in 1993. He changed the name to Arnold Movie Poster Company and then a few years later to Movie Posters as the internet came along.

The business is now in Tomball, Texas, just outside of Houston. Gene's son, Mark, and Son-in-Law, Rob Gasper work with him. They have their hands full as they sell, across the U.S.A. and around the world, thousands of original movie posters and reprints of classic titles.

On another note! Did you ever hear about a 1920, U.S. Post Office Department rule that children may not be sent by parcel post? Was or Is this for real? Did they use to send children by parcel post? Who would send their children through parcel post?

If you know the answer to this question and U.S. Post Office Department rule, then please enlighten us all! Thanks! View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Smith Brothers of Canton OK

Vol 12, Iss 25 Canton, Oklahoma - Roy of Perry, Oklahoma submitted this article concerning the Smith brothers at Canton, Oklahoma. Roy also says, "Our rains have quit for the time being. My rain gauge here at home, in Perry, Oklahoma had 1-6/10 inches this morning (June 15, 2010, Tuesday).

Here is what Roy says about the Smith brothers, "Bob and Charles (Smith) were twins. I did not know Charles wife and family. They operated a drive-in theatre at Wynnewood, but Charles worked with his twin brother at Theater Poster Service when it was located on West California Street just south of 'film row", in downtown Oklahoma City when I first knew them.

I think that I was still working as a teenager for "Pug" Hawkins at the Ritz Theatre at Britton, Oklahoma. At that time these brothers had the most fantastic independent collection of movie posters in the nation so far as I know.

Bob Smith and his wife Pauline lived in an apartment with their little daughter at their Grand Theatre in Canton, Oklahoma, as I recall. They operated that movie house on the weekends while servicing, renting posters to movie houses all over America from their storage building in Oklahoma City.

The brothers were always wanting to buy used paper posters from theatres who had purchased extras from National Screen Service or other suppliers, and Bob also collected the old 3"x4" glass StereOptican slides. I now have some slides and some antique machines to show them on.

When so many of the small town movie houses began closing and the industry claimed that TV was destroying the business (it didn't), the Smiths moved their business to a warehouse near their theatre in Canton, Oklahoma. Charles quit that part of the business. Bob and Pauline's daughter had grown up and married a young Columbia Picture's film salesman as I recall.

I was later told that after Bob and Pauline had passed away (this is hearsay, I have no proof) that the daughter's husband had all the advertising moved to the Houston area, divorced her and left her with almost nothing. He then made a fortune selling movie memorabilia to collectors.

If you have occasion to watch The Movie Club with B. J. Wexler on the educational network, O.E.T.A. you can see a photo of Bob and Pauline while they were on vacation in Hollywood. It is shown in the background in each and every show. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe