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. Vibrant!...gorgeous, fabulous!! doesn't begin to describe the boxing style posters produced by Globe Poster Printing Company.

Globe Poster became the pre-eminent printer of most of the touring R&B, Blues, and Rock & Roll acts of the 50's, 60's and 70's and today these prints or "show" posters command at auction hundreds of dollars and in some cases thousands of dollars.

Check out our colors, the designs, the pictures, they all personify the earliest Rock and Roll, R&B, and Blues of years gone by. Sadly, except for the savvy collector few still exsist in their original condition.

We at Globe Poster, after searching our archives, and transparentcies, have decided to replicate our "original" show posters using the original letter presses, inks, and 24 weight card stock that were originally produced back in our "Golden Age" of printing.

We sell on a Retail basis only, carefully monitoring our distrubution, and are constantly refreshing our line with the best reprints available on the Market today.

All of our designs are now copyrighted with The U.S Library of Congress thus preserving the control of our original designs.

Please feel free to contact us and discuss the fastest growing Rock and Roll collectable market in the world today.