Exciting! Everyone, if you’re near or in SF, you are hereby massively encouraged to attend a gig partly performed by the great electronics and visuals and sound artist (and a Lordly member of this blog’s community) Bill Hsu. Yay, your event! Ouch, the Terry Riley competition, but the present/future is always better than the past, and one hopes San Franciscans know that. But it’s playing in a couple of theaters here, so I’ll see it. I didn’t get to the ‘Together Alone’ because the prospect of entering the guaranteed steam bath of the metro was too daunting. Yeah, yesterday was a hot beyond words kind of situation. I made it through yesterday, which was the depths of hell in the guise of a Wednesday, and it’s supposed to be tinily less hellish today, so … I might last it out. And nothing’s more beautiful than a heatwave killing thunderstorm. I’ll ask his/our distributor and let you know. He was here doing an event for the film last week. We had a lot of bad press and I feel a bit irritated that the local people didn’t stick up for us a bit more.” Peter, who ran the museum for 57 years, admitted in 2008 that the models became so old they were no longer lifelike.’ - Daily Mirror But me and my husband have both been ill and thought it was foolish to keep going. We hadn’t planned to leave and we miss the business terribly. I don’t really know who the chap was but he took everything. Jane, 83, who still lives above the former attraction in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, with 86-year-old Peter, said: “All the models and machines and frames were sold in one go. January 3, 2014: ‘The world’s worst waxworks collection has been snapped up by a mystery buyer from the Czech Republic, just over a year after it closed amid a storm of ridicule. Show your grand children the stars and leaders during your generation and help us bring the museum to life.’ - Louis Tussauds House of Wax ‘If you are looking back to the 70s, so the stars as they were. Many wax museum update their models to keep the realistic to reflect the current looks or styles. ‘See your gallery of how people looked, how the passionate owners captured them at this time and preserved them for your enjoyment. In this new feature, you'll get to meet some of the residents, starting with Steptoe & Son.‘Louis Tussauds in Great Yarmouth, is different from many wax museums, in that it remembers the stars and famous people as they were at their height of fame and influence. If I ever do and win the lottery, I shall buy the place and keep it open forever. It occasionally gets some negative, sneering publicity as the 'worst waxworks in Britain', but this is grossly unfair - yes, the displays are out of date, and some of the newer figures are poorly executed, but, for the most part, it's full of excellent likenesses - and it has a unique atmosphere, providing a snapshot of a popular entertainment / museum where you are just expected to gawp and be entertained, not get all interactive and educated. I love it to bits. I've been back about thirty times over the years and I still love it - a constant in a turbulent world. I first visited it when I was about five or six and it made an indelible impression on me. My favourite is the first I ever went to, Louis Tussaud's in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. In fact, fascinated is too weak a word - I'm obsessed with them.
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