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warshawlawWell, the passes are plastic, anyway.
My Dad's company used to be outside PR counsel for the Academy, and since he was the head of the LA office, he not only went to the Oscars every year, I got hired to clean out the archives periodically and as a bonus I got to pick through all of the leftover press and other materials and scavenge what I wanted. The first year he did this, I went through forty file cabinets of "junk" and went home with my car filled to the roof with stuff, which I gradually have sold or traded off for cards. At one point I owned two of THE envelopes (best picture Chariots of Fire and best actress Katharine Hepburn), a complete run of programs for the 40 years after WWII, a few dozen tickets and hundreds of other passes, ribbons, buttons, etc. Today, I am down to several programs with my Dad's name in them (which I am saving for my daughter), a nice ticket collection, a nice run of invitations, and many rare buttons and press passes. Oh, and hundreds of photographs, negatives,slides and transparencies. Then there are the autographs: my Dad got me backstage for a couple of Oscars rehearsals and I got a lot of nice sigs--Johnny Carson, Gene Hackman, Roger Moore, Gene Kelly, Cheech and Chong, Sylvester Stallone, etc.