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In 1929, Globe Poster was founded during a card game in Philadelphia. At the table, Norman Goldstein, a wealthy New Yorker and Harry Shapiro, a Philadelphia printer, decided to go into business together. To settle on a location for their company, they took a map of the East Coast, folded it and opened it up. The crease was on Baltimore, so that's where they started. At that time, Globe printed posters for vaudeville acts, movie theatres, burlesque houses, and carnivals.
When Norman Shapiro took over the firm in 1954, Joseph Cicero, Sr. was the shop forman. A Globe employee since 1935, Cicero says he soon became "Mr. Shapiro's right hand-man". Twenty years later, Shapiro retired and sold the business to Cicero, who brought in his three sons (Joseph, Jr., Frank and Bob) as partners.
Today, the Ciceros continue to run Globe as a tight-knit family business. In fact, each of them has hands-on experience in nearly every aspect of the business, from shipping and receiving to screen printing, typesetting and running the letterpresses. Although officially retired, Joseph, Sr.keeps his hands on the pulse of the business, just as he's done for the last sixty years. Globe currently sells and designs the "old style boxing" or concert posters.
Today our company is a full service print shop with screen printing and offset capabilites for inside and outside displays.
Globe designs and prints
DECALS, POLITICAL, DIRECTIONAL, SHOW
EVENT, SPECIALITY POSTERS AND COROPLAST SIGNS
LET US MAKE YOUR EVENT A SUCCESS
410-563-3800
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Contact Mark at 410-905-7916 or email globeposterguy@aol.com
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