These
large building replicas are made of ceramic and sit atop a rotating mechanism
that also plays music. We want to call these music boxes, but they are not actually a
box, so what do we call them? Music stand, musical base? Another version that I didn’t include here because
it’s not architectural, is the Powell
& Mason cable car music box which has a label from "EFCCO, San Fran,
CA, Made in Japan." Thanks to Joe K., who sent me most of the photos here. Do you know
of other buildings in this series?
National
Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
Seattle Space
Needle on musical base
Grand Ole Opry,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Harvey's Resort
Hotel, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
My Old Kentucky Home plays a
minstrel song by Stephen Foster
Pedro's sign at
South of the Border, a tourist trap at the border of states North Carolina and South Carolina.
Ryman
Auditorium, Nashville, TN. Label on bottom reads, "Twitty City Gift Shop”
San Francisco
trolley with famous “painted ladies” Victorian houses behind. Streetcar moves
up hill by string marked 1980 Westland Co.
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