Jonathan DeSimone and I with 3 3/4" collection of GIJoes.
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Richard Wossner of Tempe, AZ was a good pal in early show days. That is my son, Jonathan DeSimone he is holding.
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Rachell Wossner of Tempe, AZ was a great at laughing at all my jokes in early show days. That is my son, Jonathan DeSimone she is holding.
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This is David Holland. He is long gone now but deserves special recognition. In the early show days, this guy was the king of custom GI Joes.
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Joe Desris. In addition to a huge boxed GIJoe collection, Joe had the worlds premier Batman collection.
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Peter Ruisi, his son and me at Peters house in Brooklyn.
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My family all holding GIJoes. I cant thank them enough for helping me out with the shows. Donnie, Elaine, Jonathan, Greg, Patricia and Mikie on the floor.
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Bob Quarm and Robert Alvarado helping to load the supplies for the show.
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Grant of Cotswolds and me shaking hands.
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Corazon Yellon, Honor, Jonathan and I at Corazons home in Beverly Hills.
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The Haros. Rich, Pat and Arianna. Rich has been one of my closest friends throughout the Joe years. I taught Arianna how to ride a bike and Pat helped Honor with her teapot collection. I could go on and on of the good times together...
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Jim and Rich Maldonado. Till this day i dont know which brother is who and I know then almost 15 years.
Forgive me guys.
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Tara Lathem, me in the middle(like i had to tell you that!) and Raquel Brown
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Terry Brown, Vicky Yip and Rich Haro
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Ricky Puckett the man from Kentucky, a great friend.
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Barry Pippin from Scottland
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Rich Haro and Chuck McSorley
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Lyla Ayala and Clark Acton. I need to clarify, they are not a couple, just happen to be next to each other when I took picture.
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Me at work making GIJoe uniforms.
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Rich Greenwood, and his partner George. George, whats your last name?
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Dick Morrisey and me. Dick was a Hasbro Employee working on adventure team and formed a company called Formative International, soldiers of the world.
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Jonathan, me, Kirk Bozigian and Gary Serby
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Vinny D'Alleva presenting me with "GIJoes #1 Fan"
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Duke presented to me by Hasbro as GI Joes #1 Fan.
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Closeup of the hand painted and first ever prototype Duke.
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I dont recall exactly how this went down but at first, because Hasbro had no pictures of all angles of my head and face profile, Hasbro gave this to me with a regular Duke head and an IOU of some kind to later have a head molded in my likeness. So this head was done afterwards. Dose anyone remember the exact story?
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This is how it is on display in my home. I added the things I treasure Hasbro gave to me.
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The Hasbro employee GIJoe watch. Vinnie D'Alleva took off his own wrist and gave to me. He said he had to wear it so he would not forget to give it to me. He later gave me a new unworn one also.
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The #000001 production figure given to me by Hasbro. I was instrumental in convincing Hasbro to do this as a convention premium for what would be my 1994 Intrepid convention. Well Hasbro stole the event from me and instead went into full production on the figures. They later gave me this numbered one #1 figure.
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Solid gold dog tag given to me by Hasbro which I recall being made by Lanny and Taura Lathem.
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A close up of kids clapping.
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A close up of kids clapping. for what?? they dont know... just because everyone else is... ahh such innocense.
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Creating the diarama at the Ramada Inn
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John Lu helping out at my house creating the diarama.
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Carl helping out at my house creating the diarama.
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A desert patrol jeep convention premium package I produced.
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my GIJoe collecting friend Jack Hill who passed on in July. hes waiting for me and we will party in Heaven one day soon.
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Dale Womer of Hobby Lobby
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