Word: memorabilia
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...office, in the center of downtown Boston, is a shrine to Harvard memorabilia: two Harvard chairs, a picture of Harvard's stadium, a framed collection of 100 Harvard 350th anniversary stamps and a collection of Harvard financial books...
Choi, a collector of ocean liner memorabilia, said that he was really pleased to have won an honorable mention, but that he thinks he did not win the prize because his collection was too unique...
...baseball-card show circuit, where one show promoter has clocked him signing his short name 600 times an hour, Rose earns as much as $20,000 an appearance. He was broke or unsentimental enough to sell the bat from his record 4,192nd hit. One prominent dealer says the memorabilia market is flooded with Rose keepsakes of dubious authenticity; several collectors, he says, claim to own the hat, spikes and shirt worn during his record-breaking...
After Gloria Williams' 15-year-old son was accused of taking part in the gang rape of a twelve-year-old girl, Los Angeles police paid her a visit. They discovered what deputy city attorney Robert Ferber described as "a museum for gang memorabilia." There were gang graffiti on a bedroom's walls. There were snapshots of Williams posing with teenagers making gang recognition signs. Another photo caught her youngest son, 8, pointing a pistol at the camera...
...newcomer to the area--Shake, Rattle and Roll--seeks to capitalize on the Baby Boomers' nostalgia for 1950s memorabilia. Whether it succeeds in the market or not, perhaps the store's presence, located next to The Friendly Eating Place and down the street from the gleaming new condo complexes, is itself a metaphor for the changes that Mass. Ave. is undergoing...