[BC] Seen at the NAB

[Harold Hallikainen]

I understand the Smithsonian is closed for renovation right now. I think
they have a museum of technology, but I don't know about broadcast
exhibits. They guy I was talking with told about the trouble they have
with storage. They accepted a collection from a fire insurance company
that included something like 25 fire trucks. They take a lot of room...

Harold


> I wonder if they have any broadcast gear in their collection?  At one of
> my
> old stations, they pulled a Western Electric 5w water cooled rig out of
> service in the mid 70's, and the story goes it was offered to the
> Smithsonian and they accepted, but didnt want to pay freight.  The station
> sent it to a junkyard instead, where t was quickly salvaged and part of it
> ended up on that pirate boat in NY harbor.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold at hallikainen.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [BC] Seen at the NAB
>>
>> I spent quite a while talking with a guy from the Smithsonian this
>> morning. I told him about my "saving history from the dumpster" at
>> http//www.hallikainen.org/BroadcastHistory . He commented that their job
>> was the same thing, saving history from the dumpster.
>>
>> So... Barry, I, and other broadcast historians are up there with the
>> Smithsonian!
>>
>> Harold
>>
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