Posted on 06/22/2020 6:43:32 AM PDT by texas booster
Home of the Brave Hawaii President Glen Tomlinson, 59, had big plans to move the museum’s collection of World War II artifacts and memorabilia from Kakaako to a new location in Waikiki. But the coronavirus pandemic in March halted plans for building a new museum, bar and restaurant in the heart of Oahu’s world-famous tourist hot spot....
Since opening the museum in 1991, the couple has amassed over 100,000 artifacts and items of memorabilia donated by service veterans and their ohana. Hundreds of World War II veterans, including Pearl Harbor survivors, have walked through the 2,700-square-foot museum over the past decades.
Now about 240 World War II items from the museum’s collection and custom furniture from the brewpub and museum’s 1940s-themed speakeasy Wiki Waki Woo Tropical Bar & Lounge are up for auction online. Collectors can bid on vintage Pan Am airline bags, fighter pilot helmets, vintage military uniforms, a collection of military patches, bar equipment and more. The auction through Oahu Auctions and Liquidations ends Friday...
Over the past two weeks, the Tomlinsons have been sifting through the collection and returning some items to their original owners both locally and on the mainland.
The Tomlinsons plan to sell and move out of their Hawaii Kai home by September, shipping their belongings and three-quarters of the museum collection to Durango, Colo., where their son Bear Tomlinson lives. Together, they want to build a roadside attraction where visitors can learn about World War II history and Durango’s past as a railroad and mining town.
“The World War II collection won’t be as expansive as what we had in Hawaii,” said Tomlinson, adding that it was a tough decision to move. “At least we can keep the stories alive in Colorado.”
ONLINE AUCTION
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>>Over the past two weeks, the Tomlinsons have been sifting through the collection and returning some items to their original owners both locally and on the mainland.
Good to see that they made right in restoring some items to their donors and aren’t just putting everything up for sale.
Well, it IS a CV19 victim
>>But the coronavirus pandemic in March halted plans for building a new museum, bar and restaurant in the heart of Oahu’s world-famous tourist hot spot....
Think item #48 “Battleship Anchor Chain” is incorrectly identified.
Each link in a battleship anchor chain weights almost 100 lbs.
Sweet deal. Have everyone donate to your business and then sell it off and move out of state.
Yep. I knew of somebody years ago that did that with a small railroad historical society he’d founded. Made me very leery of small museums.
#52 is actually a djembe, not a conga.
Only about 200 items are being auctioned off, with the rest being returned or shipped to Durango CO.
But if any BBS wanted to know about WW II memorabilia, Free Republic would have plenty of guys that knew about it, and appreciated it.
Maybe this was a movie prop?
I appreciate the news that isn’t just more of the same, thanks
The BIG museums do this too. With artworks that sometimes bring “record prices”.
This is why donors should put things on “permanent loan” etc so they are not the property of the museum to sell off when they feel like it.
Also today’s curators are WOKE and will use donated items to stage exhibits critical of a different era or the types of people who collected and exhibited such items. Best to have it on loan so if they become vindictive you can always take it back.
“ Niʻihau played a small role during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In what has come to be called the Niʻihau Incident (or the Battle of Niʻihau), a Japanese pilot whose Zero had been hit crash-landed[21] on the island hoping to rendezvous with a rescue submarine. The pilot was apprehended and later escaped with the assistance of local Japanese residents, but he was killed shortly afterwards.[22]“
I posted an auction of unique WWII items last week due the exact same interest in historic items and the unique items, including two model US battle ships that had been used in making the miniseries Midway, each more than 35 feet long, but it was taken down by the moderator as “promoting commercialism” before it had been up for ten minutes.
I thought that Freepers would be interested in the amazing detail that had gone into making the models, not that they would be interested in bidding on a model that was almost 40 feet long and weighed tons. Where would they put it? In their rec room? It did come with a trailer to tow it somewhere and was apparently capable of floating. . .
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