Word: memorabilia
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...navely beholden to the pious claim that the best things in life are free, or as the Beatles put it, money can't buy me love. Then I realized that 20 years after John Lennon's death, it's Michael Jackson who owns the lion's share of Beatles memorabilia (not to mention the Elephant Man's skeleton). Still, I clung to the belief that not everything in America is for sale...
Last week plans were announced for a museum dedicated to 18-year-old Britney Spears in the singer's hometown of Kentwood, La. Her parents will donate memorabilia from her long ago childhood. But if you and your family are on the road this summer and can't wait to check out celebrity shrines, there are some other options...
...monument to the Oklahoma City bombing victims. "Over the years memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters. "These were ordinary people," he says, "in the front row of history...
...There's no place like home. And there's really no pair of shoes like the 6B ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz." The shoes, worth estimated at $750,000, are up for sale at Christie's East's sale of Hollywood and television memorabilia...
...Briggs & Briggs is not purchased by May 31, Humphreys says he'll be forced to sell 110 years of accumulated memorabilia...