What Did You Search for For Years and Finally Find

[Mofo Rising]

This has pretty much gone away with the advent of the internet, but there was a time when you had to search the world for something you were interested in.

I was, and still am, a raving Illuminatus fan. Robert Anton Wilson wrote a secondary series called The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles. The first two books were easily available. The third, not so much. I spent ten years or so on a search for the third book. One day, I found it. The owner of the book store found out what he had after I paid for the book. I'm sure he wasn't happy that I just paid a few dollars for a book I spent the better part of a decade locating.

Oh, the book was a raving disappointment, but it had been my holy grail for years.

Do you have something you've seeked out for years and then found?

[claws]

My DVD of Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978). One day while organizing my DVD collection I noticed that my Devil Dog DVD was missing. I looked everywhere, but the disc was nowhere to be found. I didn't give it to anybody to watch and there was no reason for anybody to steal it. Months later I bought a second copy. I would check and search my collection (3000+) over the years but the first copy remained lost.
A few years later while re-organizing my collection again in alphabetically order I suddenly held two Devil Dog DVDs in my hands. My only explanation is that the first copy got somehow lost in my collection, and for some reason I kept overlooking it.

[lester1/2jr]

When my Mom was a little girl she saw a western with a little boy named Tump. via badmovies I was directed to a movie called "Jack Slade". Unfortunately, it wasn't on netflix and I didn't want to buy it because I wasn't sure it was the one. Eventually it came on on some channel and indeed, Tump appeared. He gets introduced and killed very quickly but there he was.

[Couchtr26]

  A decent pair of pants.       

No but in all honesty a good razor.  Used mass produced and didn't like and tried saftey razor which was nice but didn't like the feel.  Finally after searching found a nice older model from 1921: Gillette Tuckaway that has a good feel.  Small grip, smaller hands I have and good weight gives an aggressive shave that I am very pleased with in comparison to all my old shaves. 

[JaseSF]

Way back in the early 90s, I saw a movie starring Annette Bening which I recall featured a somewhat disturbing love triangle (of sorts). Couldn't recall the title for years but when I got online in the late 90s, through IMDB I learned it was The Grifters.

[indianasmith]

I hunted for artifacts for 12 years before I found my first Scottsbluff point (a finely flaked, 9000 year old style of spearhead).

[The Burgomaster]

badmovies.org

[Jack]

Rollerblade Warriors, the sequel to Rollerblade.  I remembered seeing it many years ago during an all-night drinking...thing.  It stuck with me for some reason.  For a long time it wasn't available on DVD and if memory serves, ex-rental VHS copies were outrageously priced.  Those good old days of Ebay and let's list it 500 times until some idiot comes along and buys it.  Finally it did show up on DVD for a reasonable price and I snatched it up in my dirty little paws!  It's actually better than I remember it being.  Or else my tastes have just gotten much lower since then.

[retrorussell]

I was looking for FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE for years, and finally found it at a DVD/VHS store in my neighborhood about 8-10 years ago.
I found EVERYTHING I had ever been looking for when I discovered the great MOVIE MADNESS store in SE Portland.  What a treasure trove!

[Umaril Has Returned]

At Chiller Theater (the East Coast one) I found a great DVD-R copy of the original "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark".  At the same show,  I found the uncut version of "Nightmare Castle' under the title "Night of The Doomed."

Other things? I found the other 3 uncut, subtitled Blind Dead movies on VHS at Midnight Video. And for online finds, I found at Youtube, the opening to the old Chiller Theater with the 6-fingered hand (Tri-State Area people know this one well).   As well, after years of other websites, I found Badmovies and decided to stay!   

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I looked and looked for years for a copy of Kim Stanley Robinson's "Pacific Edge" (This was pre internet), I finally find one (on my 25th birthday) and get it home, read it and found out I had read it in passing on a train a few years before in Europe, and didn't register the title at the time.
-Ed

[RCMerchant]

Oh gosh-some of the books I had as a kid-all my books-I LOVE BOOKS-I have 50 % of the books that I had then-still need a first edition of The Haunting of Hill house-I had a first edition back in the 70;s-I know its for sale on ebay-but I cant afford it on my paycheck! I;m a bookworm. I love books-! My home is filled with books-magazines-comic books-newspapers.
I love old books-even the smell of old books gives me a hard on. 

[Josso]

badmovies.org

It's funny I did actually see the site  ages ago, remembered the green but then I lost it for years. Also I saw bothersome man in 2010 always wanted to watch it again, and no-one could help me until I asked about it here.

[Allhallowsday]

[RCMerchant]

Thats insane.