Vintage posters on sale at St. Albert wholesaler [Video]

An Edmonton business owner is sitting on a pile of posters he said are poised to fly off the shelves – once they’re on the shelves.

Paul O’Mara owns Oceans 2 Prairies Wholesale Liquidation Ltd. in St. Albert, which has been packed with thousands of rolled-up cinema, sport and celebrity posters, many of which he has yet to discover.

“I’ve gone through some I have some downstairs, but tons of these just have a number on them,” O’Mara said. “No idea in the world what it is.”

O’Mara said he bought 10,000 of the tubes from a friend who had purchased the posters at an auction more than a decade ago.

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While O’Mara hasn’t had time to go through the whole stash, he said there are plenty of genres – and eras – for prospective buyers to choose from.

“The most recent one is 2006 and the earliest one I’ve …