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MD -- Baltimore -- Geppi's Entertainment Museum -- 2. Pioneer Spirit (Baltimore Heroes):

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Description of Pictures: PIONEER SPIRIT: BALTIMORE HEROES
Baltimore was founded on July 30, 1729 and has since become one of the most prominent and distinctive cities in the world. Its thriving community of passionate individuals has produced an abundance of heroes on the individual, group and business levels. Baltimore Heroes highlights many of the unique personalities and companies that have helped make Charm City so charming.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GEPPI2_131004_011.JPG: Stephen A. Geppi: Stephen A. Geppi, founder of the Geppi Entertainment Museum, was born in 1950 in relative poverty in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood, where he developed an early love of two things that would help define him in later years: comic books and baseball. And those modest circumstances would also convince him in the years to come of the need for philanthropy. He started collecting comic books as a child, and parlayed that into an early chain of comic shops he operated in Baltimore in the mid 1970s (after working as a postman). He is now president of Diamond Comic Distributors, which he founded in 1982. It has become the largest English-language comic distribution service in the world, after Geppi bought out a number of competitors and acquired exclusive distribution deals with the major comic book publishers. Geppi became part owner of the Baltimore Orioles in 1993, and in 1994 purchased Baltimore magazine, the nation's oldest city magazine, reaching 230,000 readers in the metro area. He is also president and publisher of Gemstone Publications, known for publishing comic reprints and collectibles price guides. His love of comics led to a fascination with all things collectible, especially examples of pop culture, and in 1995, he founded Diamond International Galleries, which trades in valuable pop-culture memorabilia. And in 2006, Geppi founded this museum, which celebrates over 200 years of pop culture, toys, and media in America. Geppi is also known for his philanthropy, and has donated substantially to, and served on the boards of, numerous nonprofits in the region, ranging from The Johns Hopkins Heart Institute and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to the Greater Baltimore Committee and Pathfinders for Autism, to name just a few.
2. GEPPI2_131004_015.JPG: Baltimore Firsts: Nearly every town in America has some obscure claim to fame listed under the "Welcome to" sign, usually related to history or historic firsts ("home of the world's first drive-in funeral home", and so forth). Baltimore's signage isn't big enough, though, to list all its firsts, from the world's first power tools for DIY homeowners (Black & Decker, founded here in 1916, decades later outdid themselves with the first cordless drill), to the first American to lend the US government money: businessman William Wilson helped cash-strapped Washington fund the two-year-old war with Britain in 1814 (that was $14 trillion ago, unfortunately). We can claim the biggest, too: The $7 million left by Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins in 1873 -- equal to about $200 million today -- to found the first combination hospital, medical school, and research hub was the biggest charitable bequest ever made, more than was left originally to Harvard or the Smithsonian Institution. We claim the South's first college for women, founded by Lovely Lane Methodist Church minister Rev. John Goucher, which is today the booming (and now co-ed) Goucher College for women; the first railroad company; the first gas company (Baltimore Gas and Electric), and the world's first shock-trauma unit, created at the University of Maryland from the 'golden hour' lessons that chopper-born medics learned in the Vietnam War. And you ski bunnies can thank Charm City for the first aluminum ski (developed in Glen L. Martin's warplane factory in Middle River, which was the roots of modern day defense giant Martin-Marietta Corp.). If that doesn't ring your bell, Baltimore's Beehler Umbrella Co. was the first umbrella factory in the United States (their motto: Born in Baltimore, Raised Everywhere). The first Sunday newspaper? The first permanent monument to George Washington? Okay, we got the winner: The Ouija Board! Go ahead, cry in your soup, New York.
3. GEPPI2_131004_020.JPG: Baltimore Magazine: Founded in 1907 by the Baltimore City Chamber of Commerce (it passed to private ownership in the 1960s), Baltimore is the nation's oldest continually published city/regional in the nation, reaching over 230,000 readers in Baltimore City and the surrounding metro area encompassing Baltimore, Howard, Harford, Anne Arundel, and Carroll counties. Based in waterfront offices in Harbor East, it has won countless national and regional awards for editorial and design excellence, often in competition with magazines in larger metro areas and with larger staffs. Like a People magazine for the metro area, Baltimore does it all, from substantial and serious coverage of the area's best restaurants to comprehensive features on personalities, the arts, fashion, politics, sports, business, health, and travel. And its constantly updated website (baltimoremagazine.net) is a colorful first stop for visitors and natives alike, and includes popular web-only blogs by editorial staffers at the magazine on everything from events to parenting (yes, the food and restaurant section wins the award for most hits). The magazine also sponsors a number of special events each year, many of them benefiting charities, from the popular Best of Baltimore Party to the Top Singled Party, and publishes the annual standalone Baltimore Bride, which hosts its own bridal show in March.
4. GEPPI2_131004_026.JPG: Baltimore Sports: The fastest way to tick off Baltimoreans? Take away the things they love best: Crabs, beer, Bay Spice, and -- this is really important -- sports. For over a century -- since the captains of industry decided to allow leisure time, that is -- baseball has been a local addiction, starting with the first Orioles team in the 1890s, who played at Union Park in what is now Charles Village. Now the American League Orioles play in Oriole Park at Camden Yards, just a few steps from this museum. Built in a turn-of-the-century railyard, the new retro, 49,000-seat stadium replaced the historic Memorial Stadium (think Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Cal Ripken), and was the envy of other ball clubs when it opened in 1992. And just down the street is the focus of Baltimoreans' attention in the fall -- M&T Bank Stadium, home of the NFL Ravens. Baltimore lost its earlier team, the Colts, when they surreptitiously defected to Indianapolis in 1984. But football-starved Baltimoreans triumphed in 1995 when they wooed the former Cleveland Browns here to begin life as the Ravens for the 1996 season. For fans from Essex to Westminster, it's a competition between Orioles and Ravens jerseys all year 'round, and if there's any space left on the bumper of your family van, then it'll be filled with stickers boosting hoops, from the University of Maryland's Terps to Towson University's Tigers. But wait, there's more sports: Horse country for hundreds of years, we're still home to the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes, as well as such historic traditions as the Hunt Cup. There's sailing, too: Annapolis is one of the world capitals of the sport. All too mainstream for you? Then check out our duckpin bowling, the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team, or women's roller derbies with the Charm City Roller Girls.
5. GEPPI2_131004_030.JPG: Notable Citizens/Businesses: Not too long ago, Baltimore was a powerhouse when it came to money management, second only to New York City, with storied firms based here like Alex Brown, Legg Mason, the trust department of the former Mercantile-Bank and Trust (now PNC), and T. Rowe Price. We're still a major force: T. Rowe, led by CEO Mark Fettig, and Legg, headed by James Kennedy and Brian Rogers, are still based here, and officers from those historic firms have started dozens of their own money management firms, like Brown Advisory (Alex Brown veterans). We're also home to one of the most successful venture capital firms in the nation, New Enterprise Associates, founded by Frank Bonsal Jr. and Charles Newhall. Healthcare and medical research are enormous industries, too, personified by Edward Miller, dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, who oversees what is consistently rated as the best hospital in the nation. Gather a gaggle of money managers and hospitals and you're going to need two gaggles of lawyers: Francis Burch Jr. heads up DLA Piper, an international practice founded here with more than 3,500 lawyers. And right behind him is James Shea, head of Venable LLC, with 600 lawyers. Want a more famous legal eagle? How about Benjamin Civiletti, a senior Venable partner and former US attorney general who was the first in the nation to charge $1,000 an hour. If you've got a brand name on your sportswear, it might very well be from Baltimore upstart Under Armour, founded by Kevin Plank; wherever you live, your electrical power may be coming from a plant owned by the $16 billion-a-year Constellation Energy; and your spice shelf probably has goodies from McCormick.
6. GEPPI2_131004_068.JPG: Kevin Clash: Kevin Clash may be best known for creating the immensely popular Elmo on Sesame Street, but did you know he got his beginnings at Baltimore's WMAR on a show called Caboose? Caboose was hosted by local celebrity Stu Kerr and featured the unique puppets of the then unknown Clash. Clash modeled his Caboose dolls after the cast and crew on the show. Featured here is a rare Caboose era doll, named Z -- after its design model, former Miss Spiderweb, John Ziemann.
7. GEPPI2_131004_082.JPG: Ravens: For a blue-collar, blue horseshoe town, Baltimore quickly embraced the Ravens' majestic purple hue. Super Bowl glory in 2001 and regular playoff appearances have blossomed this passion "violetly". Since 1996, no one in town thinks twice about purple lights adorning the Holiday tree, a purple vest under a groom's tuxedo jacket, a purple-painted Winnebago for tailgating, or purple carpeting in the neighbor's "Man Cave." You don't have to ask, "Why purple?" You just smile a knowing smile and think, "What else but purple?"
8. GEPPI2_131004_084.JPG: Orioles: In the Land of the Orioles, the maternity wards are filled with newborns named "Cal" or "Brooks." The only "acceptable" pack of hot dogs comes in an orange and black wrapper adorned with a smiling swinging bird. A belly-flop onto a slip-n-slide only looks proper while wearing a backwards facing cap, "Demper-style". The glory days of the past and present weave a [sic] orange and black tapestry of pleasant Baltimore memories -- with the promise of many more to come.
9. GEPPI2_131004_094.JPG: Bea Gaddy: Born in Wake Forest, NC, Bea Gaddy grew up in poverty. In 1964 she moved to Baltimore and in 1970 joined the East Baltimore Children's Fund. In 1981 she used money won on a lottery to buy Thanksgiving dinner for 39 of her neighbors. Gaddy then started a community kitchen and her Thanksgiving dinners became an annual event. Her community work grew with her reputation; she started furniture banks and home refurbishing programs for the poor. She ran youth programs, taught voter education and ran for the Baltimore City Council -- which she was elected to in 1999. On October 3, 2001 Gaddy passed on. Her charitable work was acknowledged in the nicknames bestowed upon her by the community -- the Mother Teresa of Baltimore and St. Bea.
10. GEPPI2_131004_107.JPG: Little Italy: If you'd asked one of the tens of thousands of immigrants who gave Little Italy its name (in Italiano, of course) for their most memorable day in the 'hood, many might retell the story of the 1904 fire. Located east of the Inner Harbor, Little Italy is an ethnic curiosity, still home to many Italian-American families that have lived there since the first ancestor stepped ashore in Baltimore, with some living in the original family houses. It's also a destination for tourists and gastronomes drawn by its many Italy-themed restaurants and cafes, its bocce ball courts, and its summertime outdoor film festival, and retains the close-knit, familial feel, and European architecture reminiscent of the old country. The enclave got its first church when the Roman Catholic complex of St. Leo's Church, now a national shrine, was built in 1880. But about that fire: The story goes that when the devastating 1904 fire struck the downtown business district, the population of Little Italy prayed to St. Anthony to spare their 12-block neighborhood. The downtown was leveled, but Little Italy was spared and residents decided after their salvation to hold a festival in St. Anthony's honor every year. The Festival of St. Anthony takes place around the historic church of St. Leo, where dancing, processions, eating, and general merriment are the order of the day. Little Italy was the birthplace and childhood home of Steve Geppi. The neighborhood also gave us former speaker of the US House of Representatives (and the first woman to hold that post) Nancy Pelosi, who is the daughter of the late Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., a Democratic congressman and Baltimore mayor.
11. GEPPI2_131004_111.JPG: Tony DeSales: Though lost on us in 2000, Tony DeSales remains an important personification of the quirky history of the Little Italy neighborhood. And his spirit survives through his art, which lives on through books, postcards, and websites. For 35 years, the handsome DeSales, always impeccably dressed, would sit at Fawn and High streets with his easel, drawing and painting scenes of the city. Called Little Italy's "ambassador," the self-taught artist was an attraction for both neighbors and restaurant patrons, creating hundreds of images of local landmarks. He also distributed countless self-published, self-addressed postcards that were mailed back to him from all over the world. Later in life, DeSales also wrote the neighborhood newsletter Piccolo, composed organ music for St. Leo's Church, and tried his hand at poetry. His life story is a bittersweet one: His father had left home when he was young and, as the eldest son, he decided it was his duty to care for his mentally ill mother, and gave up a career as a math teacher to keep her out of a nursing home. For the more than three decades that he drew and painted on the street corner, his mother, Genevieve, would sit near him on the sidewalk as he worked. Tony DeSales died at the young age of 59. Under other circumstances, DeSales' story might have developed quite differently: He could have been a career schoolteacher or perhaps a college-trained painter with gallery exhibits all over the region. But it's doubtful that a more conventional life path would have won him the admiration he still receives from all who've encountered him.
12. GEPPI2_131004_119.JPG: ... nearly a century old now, our church overlooks the very heart of our neighborhood, and its good-hearted people ... Tony DeSales
13. GEPPI2_131004_122.JPG: Little Italy: St. Leo's
14. GEPPI2_131004_125.JPG: 1993 Entrepreneur of the Year Stephen A. Geppi Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
15. GEPPI2_131004_136.JPG: Stephen A. Geppi 1998 Humanitarian Honoree Save-A-Heart FOundation Mel Brooks / Carl Reiner Celebrity Benefit June 20, 1998
16. GEPPI2_131004_140.JPG: In appreciation Stephen A. Geppi Fallen Heroes Day 1996
17. GEPPI2_131004_144.JPG: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
18. GEPPI2_131004_150.JPG: Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy Jr. Born Baltimore, Maryland Author best known for detailed espionage and military science storylines.
19. GEPPI2_131004_157.JPG: Cabell "Cab" Calloway Raised in Baltimore, the enigmatic Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was the consummate performer. A Jazz singer and Big Band leader, his storied career not only included an impressive recording career but time spent on the stage and screen as well. Performing was his passion and he continued to do so up until his passing in 1994 at the age of 86.
20. GEPPI2_131004_160.JPG: Gold record for "I Love Rock'n Roll" Joan Jett (Joan Marie Larkin) Lived in Rockville, Maryland Rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and occasional actress
21. GEPPI2_131004_163.JPG: Billie Holiday Eleanora Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, was born on April 7, 1915. "Lady Day" was blessed with one of the most unique voices ever to grace ears. Billie Holiday's legacy to the world of Jazz couldn't be understated. This Baltimore native sang each song with a level of emotion and intensity that was both haunting and beautiful. Her life was too brief (she died on July 18, 1959) but the impact she had on music will live on forever.
22. GEPPI2_131004_171.JPG: Frank Zappa: Frank Zappa is one of the few true originals in the annals of music. Composer, guitarist, singer, bandleader, record label owner and free speech advocate whose contributions to his craft are both immeasurable and unparalleled. Born in Baltimore in 1940 he would go on to create one of the most diverse bodies of recorded work, crossing over countless musical styles, frequently doing so many times in the span of the same album.
23. GEPPI2_131004_177.JPG: Baltimore Heroes: Once the second-largest city in the young republic, Baltimore has produced no shortage of heroes and household names over the past three centuries. And this room is a tribute to those famous native sons and daughters. The names of some of the earliest are unknown to us, like the salty privateers who snuck out of Chesapeake Bay inlets in their speedy schooners to harass the British forces in the Revolutionary War ("a hornet's nest," the Brits called us). But we know the name Col. George Armistead of Ft. McHenry fame, who, nearly 40 years later, once again defended the city from the mighty British military in the War of 1812. Baltimore also means a history of music, film, and the arts, from ragtime genius Eubie Blake and jazz star Cab Calloway to blues legend Billie Holiday. Not resting on our laurels, we claimed, in the generations that followed, pianist Leon Fleischer, filmmakers Barry Levinson and John Waters, and, just for something a little funkier, avant-garde composer and guitarist Frank Zappa. Baltimoreans also left their mark on industry and medicine, from the world-renowned research hospital founded by merchant Johns Hopkins and the 28,000-piece museum left by reclusive businessman Henry Walters to the international art destination that is the Baltimore Museum of Art, created by art-collecting sisters Claribel and Etta Cone. And we're synonymous with great authors -- Edgar Allan Poe, John Barth, Taylor Branch, Tom Clancy, Anne Tyler, and Upton Sinclair, to name a few. You want sports? We got that, from Babe Ruth and Brooks Robinson to Cal Ripken Jr., Johnny Unitas, and Pam Shriver. Baltimore was also on the front lines of the civil rights struggle: Native Frederick Douglass escaped slavery to become an orator, statesman, and leader of the abolitionist movement, and Thurgood Marshall was the first black justice on the US Supreme Court. Oh, did we forget to mention Oprah?
Wikipedia Description: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
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Geppi's Entertainment Museum is a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) privately owned pop culture museum located at historic Camden Station at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. The museum chronicles the history of pop culture in America from the 17th century to today as made popular in newspapers, magazines, comic books, movies, television, radio and video games. It features a large and varied collection of nearly 6,0000 pop culture artifacts, including magazines, movie posters, toys, buttons, badges, cereal boxes, trading cards, dolls, figurines - and memorabilia of every conceivable category!. Geppi’s Entertainment Museum is located in downtown Baltimore's historic Camden Station at Camden Yards, directly above the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards and adjacent to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Background

The museum is owned by Stephen A. Geppi, President and CEO of Diamond Comics Distributors, and The majority of the artifacts come from Geppi's private collection. In 2007, Geppi's daughter Melissa "Missy" Geppi-Bowersox became the Executive Vice-President of the Geppi’s Entertainment Museum; in 2012, Melissa Geppi-Bowersox was promoted to President.

The museum's founding curator was Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, former editor at Gemstone Publishing. In 2011 Andy Hershberger was promoted to Associate Curator/Registrar, and has since worked with Melissa Geppi-Bowersox in the creation of a curatorial advisory committee.

In 2012, the museum store was renamed Geppi's Comic World (formerly: Flashbacks) in honor of Geppi’s former comic chain. Zachary Winland is the current manager of Geppi's Comic World.

Exhibits

The museum is composed of several galleries devoted to different eras of pop culture, as well as a temporary exhibit space for rotating exhibits. The standing galleries are:

* A Story in Four Colors displays a large collection of comic books to the Golden Age to the Modern Era. The gallery also includes an extensive collection of pulp magazines and Big Little Books.
* Pioneer Spirit: Baltimore Heroes looks at personalities, businesses and events that have made Baltimore City and the surrounding suburbs so awesome.
* Extra, Extra: 1776-1927 features characters made popular in newspapers, books, movies and radio broadcasts of the era.
* When Heroes Unite: 1928-1945 displays character collectibles from the Great Depression until World War II, including Mickey Mouse ,Popeye, Superman, Captain Marvel, Dick Tracy, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger and more.
* America Tunes In: 1946-1960 features artifacts from era, including Howdy Doody, Davy Crockett, I Love Lucy, sports heroes, space and western shows and rock and roll.
* Revolution: 1961 to 1970 contains relics from one of the most influential decades of the 20th century. James Bond, The Flintstones, Batman, The Green Hornet, Star Trek, The Beatles, Barbie and G.I. Joe are just a few of the characters that are represented here.
* Expanding Universe: 1971-1990 highlights video games, fast food tie-ins, Saturday morning cartoons, TV celebrities and Star Wars
* Going Global: 1991-Present displays artifacts from the last decade of the 20th century to the present, and includes representation of Jack Sparrow, MC Hammer, Hanna Montana and the Toy Story franchise.

Special Edition: Temporary Exhibits

Geppi’s Entertainment Museum has been host to a wide range of rotating exhibits from Star Wars, to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to previews of upcoming toys. Currently the museum is hosting Colorforms�: 60 Years of Creative Storytelling an exhibit commemorating the 60th anniversary of Colorforms�, one of America’s most beloved toys.

Coming in August of 2013, Geppi’s Entertainment Museum will host Milestones: African Americans in Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond, a major special exhibit developed and curated by Michael Davis, co-founder of Milestone Media.
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