[78-L] Short video showing Armed Forces transcriptions discovered at Ft. Lewis/McChord AFB

[David Breneman]

- On Thu, 2/10/11, Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net> wrote:

> I emailed Joe, the guy who is doing the restoration. He is
> not willing 
> to give out information publicly. They are owned by the
> base. They are 
> renovating an old building and there will be a museum
> there. I'll wager they will go there.

If this is the old military museum (in the old Fort
Lewis Hotel) it has been undergoing renovation for
almost a decade.  My brother and I were considering
donating my father's collection of WWII Army Air Corps
memorabilia to them, and we were singularly impressed
by their lack of interest.  The "curator" wouldn't even
return phone calls, and my brother had to once chase
him down on base to show him some of the artifacts
(he had blown off their meeting). My dad's collection
went to the Museum of Flight in Seattle instead, and
they were very happy to receive the donation.  My
brother and I got a guided tour of their archives
and restoration facility (and they do deal with old
media, including nitrate film).  Unless the Ft Lewis
museum has undergone a shakeup in management, the
disks will probably go right back into a closet.