The Smithsonian American History Museum’s idea of a good time Magic 8 Ball.
The air around a Lou Gehrig signed baseball is popped corn and peanuts, warm beers and coca-cola, youth, cigar smoke, dusty baseball caps, softly beaten leather mitts, garbage-sticky streets and the shout of “Car!” and an unrestrained measure of wonder.
Joe Louis, Nazi hunter.
As a kid during a field trip, I got into an argument with a docent from the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, calling her out on the bombings in Laos.
History loves a villain.
Tilt your head to the right, I still won’t buy Quicktime Pro.
27 Scraps of Paper, Arthur Ganson 2007
Staff offices.
Archie Bunker: probably not the most appropriate role model for a child, but then again, my grandmother let me watch the Benny Hill Show.
Carol Burnett, long overdue for some appreciation.
John Belushi’s hat from the Blues Brothers is missing, but otherwise fairly complete and accurate archive of our childhood.
