[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Boatanchor Ennui--The Museum "Solution"

Sun Jul 24 20:27:20 EDT 2016

One thing for sure  if you have  One running teletype on display  it has a 
certain about of fascination  if  you have rooms   full  like  Don House 
tried    people will just   glaze over  ... even those that had  been intrigued 
  by a  quality of  one.

Ed#

you can  have  2 collections    - the public   display one  and then in a 
more archives area... a study collection

In a message dated 7/24/2016 5:10:00 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net writes:

John  Alexander K6SVL SK and  crew    was  trying  to  get  part of the old 
site set aside along with other  people.   I am  not  sure what   hardware 
they  had  anyone have a link?  I suspect that money they donated to the  
dxepidition group was what the non profit had achieved so far to try to secure 
 the property  they only wanted  part of the  site... and  the  site as  
don used it in the  70s   was really  just  a subset of   what  the orig press 
wireless  site  was.  Stoneridge where  John  Alexander K6SVL lived I think 
was some of that  land  Don Wallace  had  sold to  developers. Hey... these 
were tracts...  but   on today's market  due to location.... they are  
expensive.

There  were many old timers involved in the effort, many I know  form my  
childhood.... all passed away.... sad. great people and fantastic  mentors  
as I grew up. I remember fondly hauling  an ARN-7 John  Alexander K6SVL gave 
me that he had converted the power supply  to  60 cycles. I had a nice rack 
on the back of my motorcycle and  bungee  cords and away I went!

here  are  some pages  for people not   familiar..

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-01/news/cb-8750_1_radio-equipment
(this developer needs a-takin-to!

There is a lot about the museum NOT getting to stay I  think   the city 
wanted them to have enough money to maintain it with out it being a  burden on 
city finances???  More details? Please fill me  in.

Ed Sharpe archvisit  for smecc  -  Fond memories  of  radio in Palos Verdes 
as a youngin'

In a message dated 7/24/2016 3:10:46 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net writes:

Yes, but this is an exception  case. Gordon's collections were exceptional 
collections. Most of us haven;t  got anything more rare than maybe a 
Hallicrafters SX-115. Try finding a  museum that wants it for anything other than 
to sell to help pay next months  rent, ALL the museums are absolutely 
overwhelmed with donations of stuff  people think is rare. But mostly it is far, 
far from rare. 

And the truth is that  museums are closing, consolidating and selling off 
major portions of  collections due to lack of fundable display space--as with 
the sad fate of  Don Wallace's W6AM museum. 

Gordon's case is truly  exceptional. For the rest of us, museums are not a 
viable solution. As  someone said, enjoy your stuff. Don;t get to the point 
where your stuff  "owns you" instead of vice-versa. Then you won't sweat it 
when no one seems  to want it after you. 

73 Don Merz  N3RHT

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 From: gordon white  <gewhite at crosslink.net>
To: Peter Gottlieb  <kb2vtl at gmail.com>; David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>  
Cc:  boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>;  
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2016 9:15  AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5]  [Milsurplus] Boatanchor Ennui: Is He Wrong?

All:

If you care about what you collect,  figure out where it can go after you 
can no longer care for it. There are  museums for spark plugs, types of 
barbed wire, etc. etc. (If no one care for  something enough to preserve it 
long-time, I suppose there is no hope,  though 100 years from now someone will 
realize what was missed)

I gave 12,468 blueprints of racing  cars and engines, 1919-1976, to the 
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. Best  place I could find. I gave 4,000 + 
pieces of Command set gear to the  National Air & Space Museum, back in the 
1980s.

Find some place that cares - maybe the  Eight Air Force Museum in Savannah? 
The Air Force Museum? Navy Museum in  Pensacola? Aircraft museums, etc. etc.

My kids could hardly care less about  what I collect, including a sterling 
silver service for 12 that has been in  the family since 1898. But I care. 
Someone cares, somewhere.

- Gordon Eliot White

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