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

[Bill McClung]

It didn't happen.  It's still foundation owned with a voluntary admission
fee.  I've always liked the museum because like Rogers himself, it speaks to
many different interests.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>
>
>
> .
>
> --- 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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