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

[David Lennick]

That was-a because the change counter kept-a going "And a-one..and a-two..and 
another.."

dl

On 9/13/2010 11:44 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> If I remember correctly, about '03 or '04 the voters in South Dakota vetoed a plan for a state-funded Lawrence Welk museum.
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> 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.
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> Rodger
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> --- On Mon, 9/13/10, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> But in Toronto we have the Bata Shoe Museum, and Corning boasts a Jell-O Museum
> (and it's welcome to it).
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> dl
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> On 9/13/2010 2:48 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>      Several phonograph museums have also closed over the past few years.
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>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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>> On 9/13/2010 1:39 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
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>>>> 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>
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>>>> BILL KNOWLTON, "Bluegrass Ramble," Sundays: 9 pm to midnight (EST) over
>>>> WCNY-FM (91.3)
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>>> And I don't think Elvis cares about anybody dead either!
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>>> 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"!
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>>> Taylor
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