[78-L] Another Museum Closes and another never opened and...

[Rodger Holtin]

If I remember correctly, about '03 or '04 the voters in South Dakota vetoed a plan for a state-funded Lawrence Welk museum.  

A few years earlier, the Will Rogers museum in Claremore, OK wanted to sell itself to the local Rogers State Community College.  I used to live near enough to go every year and heard about that in '01 or '02, but I moved never heard how that came out.

Rodger



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--- On Mon, 9/13/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Another Museum Closes
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 1:51 PM

The Guy Lombardo Museum in his home town of London, Ontario couldn't make a go 
of it 20 years ago. And it was a pretty pathetic affair, with a couple of 
posters, a cut-out statue, and music on cassettes..playing, not for sale. This 
may have been one of two GL museums and there've been ongoing fights between 
the family and the city for quite a while..I have no idea if there's currently 
anything operating.

But in Toronto we have the Bata Shoe Museum, and Corning boasts a Jell-O Museum 
(and it's welcome to it).

dl

On 9/13/2010 2:48 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>    Several phonograph museums have also closed over the past few years.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> On 9/13/2010 1:39 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Just got word that the Liberace Museum is closing, joining the Roy Rogers
>>> Museum as toast.
>>>
>>> Sad nobody cares anymore about anybody dead except Elvis<g>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) over
>>> WCNY-FM (91.3)
>>
>> And I don't think Elvis cares about anybody dead either!
>>
>> I guess what's really "dead" in this case is the audience for and strong
>> interest in Liberace and Roy Rogers.  I imagine in a few years we might see
>> a Kurt Cobain Museum,  which will probably close fifty years after that.
>>
>> And speaking of "toast,"  at one time there was a Toaster Museum here in
>> Seattle,  and it closed,  too...it was like "toast squared"!
>>
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>
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