Museum Of American Heritage
Museum Of American Heritage
Here are some pics from a visit to the Museum of American Heritage and its historic garden on a rainy Sunday.
The current exhibit is Let Us Entertain You: Amusement from Earlier Eras, featuring vintage and antique phonographs, radios, televisions, microphones and more. First up we see a Victor Talking Machine phonograph from 1903, in working condition.
It was the fashion for vintage entertainment consoles to combine TV, radio and record player into one single piece of furniture. Here we see one made by Magnavox.
An early, problematic version of a TV remote control, from 1956 by Zenith.
This Zenith floor-standing radio from 1938 received AM broadcast, shortwave and police bands. Its Art Deco walnut case is beautiful.
This RCA videocassette tape recorder from 1977 looks boxy and clunky.
This futuristic swivel-neck Philco pedestal TV from 1959 was originally produced exclusively for Holiday Inn Hotels but it quickly became popular in the consumer market.
Melmac plastic resin dishes, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Good Housekeeping Cookbook, 1930. Glad the recipes were not only tested but actually tasted as well. Always a good idea with recipes!
1940s American housewives participated in making dynamite!
Sunbeam Toasters, 1939 and 1949. I grew up with one identical to the one on the right.
In a separate outbuilding on the museum grounds, BayLUG has a special holiday show of Lego projects.
Lego pumpkin patch.
Lego eagle aerie.
Lego ostriches, of all things.
Lego spider on Lego farm tractor. Because why not.
Lego Dia de los Muertos skull.
Outside in the garden, little is in bloom.
The arbor, glazed with rain water, below the leafless wisteria.
Some whimsical sculptures by the fence.
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Here are some pics from a visit to the Museum of American Heritage and its historic garden on a rainy Sunday.
The current exhibit is Let Us Entertain You: Amusement from Earlier Eras, featuring vintage and antique phonographs, radios, televisions, microphones and more. First up we see a Victor Talking Machine phonograph from 1903, in working condition.
It was the fashion for vintage entertainment consoles to combine TV, radio and record player into one single piece of furniture. Here we see one made by Magnavox.
An early, problematic version of a TV remote control, from 1956 by Zenith.
This Zenith floor-standing radio from 1938 received AM broadcast, shortwave and police bands. Its Art Deco walnut case is beautiful.
This RCA videocassette tape recorder from 1977 looks boxy and clunky.
This futuristic swivel-neck Philco pedestal TV from 1959 was originally produced exclusively for Holiday Inn Hotels but it quickly became popular in the consumer market.
Melmac plastic resin dishes, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Good Housekeeping Cookbook, 1930. Glad the recipes were not only tested but actually tasted as well. Always a good idea with recipes!
1940s American housewives participated in making dynamite!
Sunbeam Toasters, 1939 and 1949. I grew up with one identical to the one on the right.
In a separate outbuilding on the museum grounds, BayLUG has a special holiday show of Lego projects.
Lego pumpkin patch.
Lego eagle aerie.
Lego ostriches, of all things.
Lego spider on Lego farm tractor. Because why not.
Lego Dia de los Muertos skull.
Outside in the garden, little is in bloom.
The arbor, glazed with rain water, below the leafless wisteria.
Some whimsical sculptures by the fence.
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