Here's an interesting factoid:  the famous photo of Richard Nixon and Elvis in the oval office is one of the most requested photos at the National Archives.  Where are all those photos going?

See it yourself in an online photographic exhibit at http://www.nara.gov/exhall/nixonelvis/

I'll trade you floaty pens, O!  I'll trade you a Nixon/Elvis for one with President Hoover standing in a stream fishing--a school of fish floats back and forth!  Just let me know.

Does anyone know who makes floaty pens?  I'd love to see a list of all of them all.  I think we have 2 or 3 different designs in our gift shop.

Chris.

>>> [log in to unmask] 08/09 10:50 AM >>>
Heavens!  I kept wondering too about the "smooshed" pennies, and after
reading Carol's answer I can say I do know them!!  We have a penny
machine upstairs that'll smash your coin with our Birthplace and RNLB
logo; you add two quarters and the penny.  People really like them as
souvenirs!   Goldie at our gift shop just calls them "smashed pennies."

And we sell "floaty" pens in the gift shop!  Currently we have a
Presidential Limo that floats back and forth, and we have RN & Elvis
shaking hands with the Oval Office in the background (a true event, read
about it in "The Day Elvis met Nixon," by Bud Krogh).  And Goldie says
that the float pens are just float pens, never heard of "floaty."  I like
both terms.

The Squished Penny museum website was lots of fun; gives you a whole lot
of respect for those smooshed pennies.

O

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:54:23 -0400 Carol Kocian <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Rich wrote,
>
> >Ok, I admit it.  I'm a bone nerd.  Bones I know.  Smooshed pennies and
flaoty pens....I have absolutely no idea what you all are talking....
>
>


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