A doctor's long and winding road to opening the only dedicated Beatles museum in the U.S.

The Penny Lane Beatles Museum in St. Petersburg is the only one dedicated to the band in the country. It includes thousands of pieces of memorabilia. (Warren Buchholz / WUSF)Dr. Robert Entel says he's not obsessed with the Beatles."The word 'obsessed' as a doctor sounds pathologic, so I wouldn't consider myself that," said Entel, a radiologist in north Pinellas County. "But I am very much intrigued with the Beatles, and it's been a big part of my life."So intrigued that he collected thousands of pieces of Beatles memorabilia over 40 years — some rare, some not as much. Dr. Robert Entel's collection, which took over 40 years to assemble, includes rare Beatles memorabilia.(Warren Buchholz / WUSF)It became so extensive that it would no longer fit in his bedroom. And what eventually was housed in a small, apartment-sized location in Dunedin has moved into a much larger space in downtown St. Petersburg.In fact, his collection now comprises the Penny Lane Beatles Museum — the only museum i