Ahh! One learns every day. The magic formula " to help with an exhibit"
quiets the savage beast in souls, ensures civil comportment, and ensures
participation.

This leads one to the question, will the planned exhibit be a creature of
stereotype, in that it will present every "dog and pony" of the 1950's, or
will it be realistic portrayal, in that some 50's items will be mixed with
timeless items? How will that mix be achieved? What provisions are there for
socio-economic, regional, ethnic and religious differences? Why is there no
discussion about this aspect of the exhibit?
nburlakoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of Kimberly Kenney, Curator
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:06 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: 1950s Christmas Gifts

I'd just like to point out that this IS
museum-related, since I asked the question to help
with an exhibit.

Kim Kenney
Curator
McKinley Museum

--- Nicholas Burlakoff <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Miracles never end. Despite the fact that this
> thread has been running for a
> number of days and, despite the fact that it is only
> marginally museum
> related there have been no ill-tempered outcries for
> cessation of
> discussion.  There have been no churlish outbursts
> that a lister who has
> subscribed for the past fifty years is ceasing to
> subscribe because of the
> non-professionally relevant postings. I also would
> be surprised if anyone,
> who made a post on this topic received off-line
> barrages of insults and
> personal invectives.
>
> Could this be because the topic is a burning issue
> in the museum community
> or our society? Could that be because our listers,
> who have a penchant for
> defamatory an/or hysterical invective have seen the
> error of their ways?
> Or, could it be because the topic is nostalgic to
> many and true fluff?
>
> I don't have answers to these deep questions, but I
> do appreciate the number
> of days of postings without rancor.
>
> My own memories run to books-Kipling, Robert Luis
> Stevenson, Dickens, Dumas,
> Sir Walter Scott and subscriptions to Boys Life.
> Yes, I had the Radio Flyer
> wagon, the Davy Crockett coonskin cap, a Daisy BB
> gun and the Hopalong
> Cassidy cap pistol but the books are still on my and
> my parent's shelves,
> and their content is part of my character and value
> system
> nburlakoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Indigo Nights
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 1950s Christmas Gifts
>
> Great stuff, Lindsey!
>
> Mink for mom.  Even if it were little pins of
> animals
> made out of mink.
>
>
> --- "Richardson, Lindsey"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > I've enjoyed this thread so much that I forwarded
> it
> > to various family
> > members, who sent me their own lists.  Here's what
> > my relatives wanted in
> > the 50s when they were teen girls:
> >
> > white rabbit fur collars tied with pom-poms on
> > velvet
> > strings to be worn over a short sleeve sweater
> >
>
>
>
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