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James McCarthy and Richard Ventura
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George Trenton from Canada and I on my diarama.
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Kathy Trenton from Canada and I in my diarama room.
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Rich Haro working on the prototype helicopter.
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John, Paul, George, and Ringo (me) John Loretz, Paul Hansen and George Fredericks
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My Ford f-350 truck and car carrier i converted into Toy Heaven traveling mesuem. This rig took me to Las Vegas one year, Cincinatti OH another year, Annoplis MD another year and Crystal City VA another year. On one trip, the trailer got 6 flat tiers 5 different times... and the battery blew up out of the truck.
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Neil LaSala, Carl Fuller and I in stopping off in Texas for a steak driving back from a cross country trip for a Joe show,
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Cousin Vinnie, Ben Bocuzzi and I.
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Brothers, George and Alex Romero from IL
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Joe Marcello the Fireman....
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Brian Becker and I were going to do the JoeLanta shows together but he had other plans...
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Hasbro Employee Gerrie Bomadier
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Ben Boccuzzi and Guy Michael
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John Marshall. A kid in a candy store...
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Craig Hedges and one of his sons. Sadly to report, Craig at one time a good pal to many of us here in LA, moved and chooses no longer to communicate with any of his friends...
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Best friends George Fredericks and John Loretz
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book.
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book.
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book. I am showing upening up 1 0f over 75 unopened packages to use for my book.
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book. I am showing the opening of 1 of over 75 unopened packages to use for my book. I am surrounded by all the original salesmens catalogs and years of notebook compiliations.
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book. I am showing me cutting the accosiries off the card. 1 of over 75 unopened packages used for my book.
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book. Witness and helper to the opening of NRFB items was Phil Morgan who opened some himself.
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The set up for photography of my 12" Joe book. I am shown using a shutter release connected to a camera suspended from a ladder held up by 2 other ladders on each side 6' above the floor to take photo. I designed this whole set up.
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Jonathan, Honor and I with Jim & Faye Starling and family.
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Frank Lello, Paul Hansen, Pauls cop friend from Rochester and I.
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Brenda, James and son Zacchariah Heinen
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Bill "the shark" Simmons
and I.
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Calvin Yip and Rich Haro working on the German Hetzer tank.
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Rich Haro and Alex Ferrer working on a space diarama
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Valerie Nestrick and friend, Hershey.
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Rays copy center, long out of business is where I spent a good part of my time doing newsletters and ads for Joe shows.
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A letter from Hasbros Vinnie D"Aleva requesting me to proof and correct Hasbros history of GI Joe.
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My first ad for our second GIJoe convention to be held on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. Shortly after, the Queen Mary was up for sale or was to loose its lease and the Hotel canceled all events.
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My second ad showing the new location of the LA Airport Hilton Hotel.
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Another ad for our LA Airport Hilton Hotel. GIJoe convention
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Original artwork from Hasbro for our convention premium. This convention premium was ant till this day remains the only 100% entirly produced by hasbro convention premium. Hasbro made the artwork, packaging and convention Infantry Uniform. Hasbro droped shiped to me from China 594 sets. 500 for the convention and 94 were sent back to Hasbro.
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