Dean Martin

“I'm using a lot of my collection of the past 25 years to donate to the auction to help build the Dean Martin statue,” explained Angelica, the founder and ...

“We have the Dean Martin celebrity roasts, the complete box set of all 57 roasts,” Angelica continued. Make checks payable to Old Fort Steuben Inc. with “Dean Martin Statue” in the memo line. Angelica anticipates attendees will include residents of Pittsburgh and Cleveland who came to the festival through the years. They were sitting in my basement, and there are only 295 of each of them, and they’re all numbered so I’m going to put up 10 each of those. It’s on great paper, real thick paper, and it’s just beautiful, and I’m going to put up 10 of those, and I’m hoping to get some good money with those, and then I have 10 each of Dean Martin/ Frank Sinatra lithographs that were given to me by an artist years ago, we never sold them. Well, we couldn’t come up with the money, so we helped do the mural,” Angelica said, referring to the Dean Martin mural on the side of the Kroger store in Hollywood City Center. The original cost on it was probably $500 when it first came out, and they didn’t press that many of them because it was so expensive. “We have the famous ‘Ocean’s 11’ poster signed by Sid Avery, the photographer who took the picture,” she said. I do have other stars’ autographs and stuff that’s from friends of his and from people who really liked him, but I have some really great stuff, some rare things, and I think people will enjoy it, you know buying it, and they can enjoy it now, because I’ve enjoyed it for 25 years, and now it’s their turn.” The former Mingo Junction resident was contacted earlier this year about being part of the statue effort by former Steubenville resident Gerald Ravasio of Baton Rouge, La., who originated the idea, and Flora VerStraten-Merrin, media chair for the committee that Ravasio is chairing. She said she will remain in the area until October when it comes time to perform at key festivals in Branson, Mo., and Nashville. “I’m glad to use it for something positive like that, because we’ve been wanting to put a statue up since day one.