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Vintage Sports Posters Gallery |
Southern California vs Loyola 1933
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UCLA vs Washington 1938
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Southern California vs Whittier 1934
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Gallery Description
All kinds of sports have fascinated man from very early times. Most of the sports like baseball, basketball, golfing etc have been around for more than 2000 years. Vintage sports posters depict most of the olden day sports like golf, skiing, tennis in all its splendor. During those times, most of these games were between amateur clubs and associations making them all the more enjoyable and friendly.
Racing was the clear favorite among the adventure lovers, be it cycle racing or car racing. Most of the Vintage Sports posters have vivid drawings of these racing moments, the speed and the thrill of it all captured in these paintings. Golfing was liked by the upper class people and hence there were a number of posters of golfing competitions catering to his class of people. These golfing posters portray men as well as women enjoying this sport in all its spirit.
The star players and best sportsmen were also given prominence in the vintage sports posters. The lively sketches and paintings that form the distinctive feature of all vintage posters is seen in vintage sports posters also. Most vintage posters can be recognized by their vivid sketches and bright colors, and their characteristic feature of giving more prominence to the sketches than to the advertisements copy or content.
Visit our Gallery of Vintage Sports Posters for a beautiful collection of posters on the various sports of the ancient times.
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Thursday, August, 21 st
2008
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