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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: 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 →

Kobe Bryant superhero cape big seller at LAX airport

04/14/13

Sports memorabilia is a big seller at many airports and, as you might imagine, anything relating to the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team is very popular at Los Angeles International Airport. And, even though knee injuries and a torn Achilles tendon seem to have taken Kobe Bryant out of the game – for now and →

Stuck at Managua’s Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

04/12/13

Stuck at the Airport.com reader Katie Jackson recently spent some time in Nicaragua – and at the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport (MGA) in Managua. She was kind enough to share some photos and notes from her Greenspot.travel post on what she saw. Handmade souvenirs “No chain stores, just stalls featuring authentic Nicaraguan handicrafts that →

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 →

What makes a charming souvenir?

03/26/13

What makes a charming souvenir? How about this Japanese paper lantern, which was chosen as the grand prize winner of this year’s Charming Japanese Souvenir Contest, hosted by the Japan Tourism Agency. The contest has been held annually since 2005 with one of the goals being “to introduce Japanese appeal to the world through souvenirs →

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 →

Surprising best-sellers at airports

03/20/13

Although it’s been 20 years since the debut of the romantic comedy film Sleepless in Seattle, gray and pink nightshirts sporting the movie’s title are still among the bestsellers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), with 9,000 of the shirts sold last year. “Some of us scratch our heads about its appeal,” said Randi Sibonga, who →

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