[GreenKeys] Re: Museum in Seattle

[Don Robert House]

Paul,

Yes, Qwest wanted to junk everything and rent the space.

It is no longer the Vintage Telephone Museum.  It is The Communications Museum.

The Washington Commerce Commission saved the museum.  They told Qwest 
it should be preserved.

Qwest is bankrupt so God knows what will happen next.

Don

At 9:43 AM -0500 01/15/2005, Paul Wills wrote:
>Better that a private museum be formed if possible.  Whenever you depend on
>the largess of another organization, you are at the risk whenever there is a
>change of management at the top.  There are already too many tales of
>material that is lost forever because some "bean counter" with no sense of
>history decides that the space would better be used for something else.
>
>If I understand correctly, the museum in Seattle is now under the auspices
>of the Telecom Heritage Group of Denver, CO.  I also heard (and this is
>hearsay until it's verified) that Qwest tried to kick them out but the
>Pioneers have an "iron clad" right to the space.
>
>Another approach may be to see what the Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, ME
>did.  I understand that it's all on museum property and is subject only to
>the whims of the directors of the museum.
>
>http://www.thetelephonemuseum.org/
>
>As Greg Moore has discovered, bureaucrats have no interest in history.
>
>PDW
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj at wps.com>
>To: "mlmccauley" <mlmccauley at comcast.net>
>Cc: "Greenkeys maillist" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 3:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] new guy on the list
>
>
>>  On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, mlmccauley wrote:
>>
>>  > There are a couple of other good, well established computer museums in
>the
>>  > US, notably the one in Boston, MA.
>>
>>  Which one is that? THe last I knew, the Computer Museum out near
>>  the piers in Boston folded up, and the Mtn. View CA museum took
>>  all their stuff.
>>
>>  I also have no preference other than the stuff not end up in
>>  dumpsters.  I'd far prefer it to go to a public museeum than
>>  private collections.
>
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