It was pretty cool. I expected a large room with a bunch of different layouts (model train terminology for a piece of painted plywood you put model trains on), where you could walk amidst them all and enjoy the intricacies of plastic buildings and whizzy model trains. In actuality, it was a giant mountain of Styrofoam and plaster and CVS holiday buildings with like 24 model trains all ripping around on loops and ovals of all gauges(model train sizes).
The walls were filled with shelves and shelves of antique/vintage model trains from almost a hundred years ago. My dad and I felt the same way, we probably couldn't appreciate the value of some of these awesome old mechanical goodies.
Here are a few pictures from the exhibit:
Panorama of the south side of the "glacier" (as they referred to it)
There are four trains zipping around this mini Grand Canyon.
Girl Train!
A little gruesome...who thought this scene under the Golden Gate was a good idea?
Wall of Trains!
MORE PICTURES ON MY FLICKR SITE: www.flickr.com/photos/crockeronline There's a ton up there from all sorts of stuff, feel free to browse.
We figured, "Well, we're at the Nixon library, when are we going to come here again? Lets walk around."
Wow. I don't think I ever need to see another button or pin or newspaper article about Ricahrd fucking Nixon ever, EVER again. I thought it was going to be a small, walk around a couple small rooms of stuff, but it was a twisting, crippling, labyrinth of Richard Milhous Nixon. That guy did a ton of amazing stuff, all the while being kind of America's greatest skeez. And he's from Yorba Linda.
And his official Presidential helicopter, I'm not making this up, seats 16 people, has 32 ashtrays, two wetbars, one red phone, and NO SEATBELTS.
If you live in southern California, and are in junior high and have to do a report on Richard Nixon, this is the place to go. Or if you need Presidential tchotchkes, the gift shop is the place to go.
They also do weddings.
Happy New Year everybody!
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