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Souvenir Sunday at LeMay – America’s Car Museum

06/15/13

The four-story, classic vehicle-filled LeMay- America’s Car Museum recently celebrated its first anniversary in Tacoma, Washington. In addition to a display of more than 350 cars, trucks and motorcycles, the museum houses a nifty slot car track. The LeMay also a has great gift shop, which is where I found these treasures:

Souvenir Sunday: a 150-year-old pickle

05/25/13

As souvenirs go, this is a winner. This weekend I visited the Lynden Pioneer Museum in Dutch-themed Lynden, Washington to give my Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presentation about things museums have that they can’t or won’t show you. During the event, museum director/curator Troy Luginbill was kind enough to bring out a hidden treasure from […]

Souvenir Sunday: Spud Buddies at Boise Airport

05/04/13

If your travel plans take you anywhere near eastern Oregon or southern Idaho, you’ll likely begin and end your trip at Boise Airport (BOI), a small-hub airport with an easy-to-negotiate terminal, two concourses (B & C), a three story rotunda, a single security checkpoint and a well-rounded range of services and amenities. The airport is […]

Souvenir Sunday: tokens from the Foundling Museum

04/28/13

London’s Foundling Museum tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, which opened in 1739 and was London’s first home for abandoned children. When babies were left there, mothers usually left tokens and small objects such as coins, jewelry, buttons and other items – even something as simple as a playing card or a nut – […]

Souvenir Sunday: seed tags from Red Lion Hotels

04/20/13

You’ll find Red Lion Hotels in many west coast and Pacific Northwest cities and at my recent stay at a Red Lion Columbia Center in Kennewick, WA, I was handed a complimentary bottle of water at check-in because I’d signed up to be a member of the Red Lion R&R Club. I drank the water […]

Sasquatch spotted at Sea-Tac Int’l Airport

04/09/13

Travelers have been trying to get a glimpse of the storied but elusive Sasquatch – or Bigfoot – for ages. Now he’s easy to spot at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Several Hudson shops I stopped into yesterday had extensive Sasquatch displays with t-shirts, mugs, stuffed animals and, my favorite category of kitschy souvenirs: candy Sasquatch ‘poop.’

Souvenir Sunday at New Orleans International Airport

03/30/13

It’s Souvenir Sunday – the day we take a look at some of the fun, inexpensive and locally-linked items for sale at airports. . This week’s souvenirs come to us from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, courtesy of Christopher Shaberg, author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight Christopher […]

Souvenir Sunday: South Korea’s Incheon Airport

03/23/13

This week’s Souvenir Sunday items come courtesy of Anna Williams, director at Seattle’s Perspectio, who recently spent some time at South Korea’s Incheon Airport. She reports that between the shops, the cafes, the greenery and cultural street – which features cultural events such as Korean classical chamber music concerts and a recreation of the king […]

Souvenir Sunday: Hello Kitty in-flight service items

02/23/13

I’ve been gathering up images and information about fun airline liveries for a story to be delivered next week and finally made contact with a representative at Eva Air, the Taiwan-based airline that has five Hello Kitty-themed jets: Magic, Apple, Global, Happy Music and Speed Puff. The Hello Kitty theme isn’t just painted onto the […]

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