After the
ACD, our guidebook said that the
Ford Museum in Detroit was the grandfather of all museums and not to be missed. As it was on the way to Canada, we thought, hell, why not? The Ford is almost like the museum of Presidential death; there's the chair that Lincoln was sitting in when he got shot while watching the opera and there's the limo that Kennedy was shot in while driving through Dallas. But then again, as the richest man in America for a while, Ford did collect everything under the sun (including one of Amelia Earhart's planes). It was definitely, again, worth the splurge ($15 per ticket). We were here in September 2010...I'm just terribly late in getting all this posted up.
A mail carriage used to deliver mail in Minnesota, circa 1900. There's a little pot bellied stove in there to keep the mailman warm during the winter. The outside is covered in graffiti from ages ago.
Motorized roller skates!
The original Wienermobile by Oscar Meyer
Buckminster Fuller's
Dymaxion House. One of the first kit houses, suitable for any terrain or environment, first developed in 1929 and then redesigned in the 50's to cater to the housing boom. Unfortunately it never took off, and if I understand it correctly, this is the last complete example.
A mail carriage used to deliver mail in Minnesota, circa 1900. There's a little pot bellied stove in there to keep the mailman warm during the winter. The outside is covered in graffiti from ages ago.
Motorized roller skates!
The original Wienermobile by Oscar Meyer
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House. One of the first kit houses, suitable for any terrain or environment, first developed in 1929 and then redesigned in the 50's to cater to the housing boom. Unfortunately it never took off, and if I understand it correctly, this is the last complete example.
