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04-20-2017, 08:49 AM
I have recently heard that the "The Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership"
is in the Smithsonian"s permanent collection, as are the ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizerd Of Oz .
"Archie Bunker's chair" is in the National Museum of American History.
I guess there must be other props, or backdrops or other items that have been used on TV, or on stage that are now in museums or historic societies or organizations because of their cultural or nostalgic value, or their iconic status.
I think that the "Bat mobile" is in some kind of car museum or has been somehow preserved for exhibition regarding vehicles in Popular TV shows of the past. I think likewise for the "Monkeemobile."
However what I have heard of the original Partridge Family bus (the one that was used in the actual TV show) is that it was just somehow handed to someone who left it essentially un-attended in the back of a restaurant or home and the bus corroded and eventually was just hauled as trash and no one knows what became of it afterward .
It is bewildering how it was never given to a museum or put along with the Bat mobile and the Monkeemobile.
Perhaps at the time, no one thought that The Partridge Family TV show would go down in trivia history as the only other TV show other than "the Monkees" from which came songs that became hits within the recording industry.
Perhaps, when the Partridge Family ended, it had such bad ratings and the plots had become so awful as well as the music ( or reportedly) that people thought that the show would go on to hardly be remembered.
It seems that the Partridge Family bus would have been a particularly
significant artifact of the early 1970s .
Anyone know the details of what happened to the original bus?
is in the Smithsonian"s permanent collection, as are the ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizerd Of Oz .
"Archie Bunker's chair" is in the National Museum of American History.
I guess there must be other props, or backdrops or other items that have been used on TV, or on stage that are now in museums or historic societies or organizations because of their cultural or nostalgic value, or their iconic status.
I think that the "Bat mobile" is in some kind of car museum or has been somehow preserved for exhibition regarding vehicles in Popular TV shows of the past. I think likewise for the "Monkeemobile."
However what I have heard of the original Partridge Family bus (the one that was used in the actual TV show) is that it was just somehow handed to someone who left it essentially un-attended in the back of a restaurant or home and the bus corroded and eventually was just hauled as trash and no one knows what became of it afterward .
It is bewildering how it was never given to a museum or put along with the Bat mobile and the Monkeemobile.
Perhaps at the time, no one thought that The Partridge Family TV show would go down in trivia history as the only other TV show other than "the Monkees" from which came songs that became hits within the recording industry.
Perhaps, when the Partridge Family ended, it had such bad ratings and the plots had become so awful as well as the music ( or reportedly) that people thought that the show would go on to hardly be remembered.
It seems that the Partridge Family bus would have been a particularly
significant artifact of the early 1970s .
Anyone know the details of what happened to the original bus?