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MARILYN MONROE MARILYN MONROEMovieland Wax MuseumBuena Park, California As the sinuous young “companion” of a crooked lawyer in “The Asphalt Jungle,” Miss Monroe achieved stardom in 1950. One of her greatest triumphs was in the role of a delightfully funny beautiful-but-dumb leading character in the musical comedy, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” 

MARILYN MONROE

MARILYN MONROE
Movieland Wax Museum
Buena Park, California

As the sinuous young “companion” of a crooked lawyer in “The Asphalt Jungle,” Miss Monroe achieved stardom in 1950. One of her greatest triumphs was in the role of a delightfully funny beautiful-but-dumb leading character in the musical comedy, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” 

PRINCE CHARMING Sleeping BeautyHALL OF PRESIDENTS WAX MUSEUMCOLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming. Fairyland Section. 

PRINCE CHARMING

Sleeping Beauty
HALL OF PRESIDENTS WAX MUSEUM
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming. Fairyland Section. 

COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL WAX MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON D.C. Sailing from Palos, Spain. August 3. 1492, Christopher Columbus guided his three tiny ships, Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, across uncharted seas. Land was sighted October 12, 1492, at 2 a.m. At dawn he landed on an island off the Bahamas which he named San Salvador — Holy Savior. I will be visiting Chris in his new living room next month.

COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL WAX MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON D.C.

Sailing from Palos, Spain. August 3. 1492, Christopher Columbus guided his three tiny ships, Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, across uncharted seas. Land was sighted October 12, 1492, at 2 a.m. At dawn he landed on an island off the Bahamas which he named San Salvador — Holy Savior.

I will be visiting Chris in his new living room next month.

BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS, native Texan, has been named the world’s greatest athlete. The winner of top golf honors, Olympic track star, and All American Basketball player’s life-size wax figure may be seen at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum at State Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. This makes her look like Bob Hope.

BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS

BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS, native Texan, has been named the world’s greatest athlete. The winner of top golf honors, Olympic track star, and All American Basketball player’s life-size wax figure may be seen at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum at State Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.

This makes her look like Bob Hope.

HAPPY 4th John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin at historic meeting. The framing of our nation’s Declaration of Independence. Portrayed faithfully in Josephine Tussaud’s London Wax Museum, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

HAPPY 4th

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin at historic meeting. The framing of our nation’s Declaration of Independence. Portrayed faithfully in Josephine Tussaud’s London Wax Museum, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

FRONTIER TYPE JUSTICE Wish You Were Here! The CHAMBER OF HORRORS at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum in State Fair Park of Dallas, Texas, recreates an event that took place in Ada, Oklahoma, April 19, 1909, when a lynch mob took four suspected murderers from jail to a barn where they administered frontier type justice. How many parents told their kids, “If you don’t behave, this is where you’ll end up.”

FRONTIER TYPE JUSTICE

Wish You Were Here!

The CHAMBER OF HORRORS at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum in State Fair Park of Dallas, Texas, recreates an event that took place in Ada, Oklahoma, April 19, 1909, when a lynch mob took four suspected murderers from jail to a barn where they administered frontier type justice.

How many parents told their kids, “If you don’t behave, this is where you’ll end up.”

JESUS HAVING A SCENE Why do most wax museum representations of Jesus make him look like he’s drunk or stoned? Jesus in a scene at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Cave City, Kentucky.

JESUS HAVING A SCENE

Why do most wax museum representations of Jesus make him look like he’s drunk or stoned?

Jesus in a scene at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Cave City, Kentucky.

WAX JOHN GLENN MIAMI WAX MUSEUM139th Street and U.S. 1, Miami, Florida Life size wax figure of Astronaut John Glenn, in NASA approved space suit. 

WAX JOHN GLENN

MIAMI WAX MUSEUM
139th Street and U.S. 1, Miami, Florida

Life size wax figure of Astronaut John Glenn, in NASA approved space suit. 

HAPPY OBSERVED BIRTHDAY, GEORGE Tell me that Martha doesn’t look like a guy in drag. GEORGE and MARTHA WASHINGTON, are among the fifty life size wax figures in the Hall of Famous Americans in Santa Claus Land, Indiana. Lewis Sorensen who created these likenesses is the foremost wax artist in the country. You wouldn’t know that from this postcard. 

HAPPY OBSERVED BIRTHDAY, GEORGE

Tell me that Martha doesn’t look like a guy in drag.

GEORGE and MARTHA WASHINGTON, are among the fifty life size wax figures in the Hall of Famous Americans in Santa Claus Land, Indiana. Lewis Sorensen who created these likenesses is the foremost wax artist in the country.

You wouldn’t know that from this postcard. 

HAPPY LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY (observed-NY) NATIONAL WAX MUSEUMof LANCASTER COUNTY HERITAGELancaster, Pennsylvania, Rt. 30 East Abraham Lincoln - 1861On February 22, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln passed through Lancaster on his journey from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration, and delivered a speech form a balcony of the Caldwell House, later known as the Brunswick Hotel. He passed through Lancaster a second time…on April 21, 1865…This time the martyred President’s body lay in a black-draped funeral train as it slowly returned him to his beloved Illinois. Guess that’s Mary Todd next to him? Looks like his mum. Poor gal isn’t even identified on the postcard.

HAPPY LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY (observed-NY)

NATIONAL WAX MUSEUM
of LANCASTER COUNTY HERITAGE
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Rt. 30 East

Abraham Lincoln - 1861
On February 22, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln passed through Lancaster on his journey from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration, and delivered a speech form a balcony of the Caldwell House, later known as the Brunswick Hotel. He passed through Lancaster a second time…on April 21, 1865…This time the martyred President’s body lay in a black-draped funeral train as it slowly returned him to his beloved Illinois.

Guess that’s Mary Todd next to him? Looks like his mum. Poor gal isn’t even identified on the postcard.

SALOME & DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS A nice biblical postcard to send back home to the kiddies. Royal Pacific Wax MuseumNewport, Oregon 

SALOME & DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

A nice biblical postcard to send back home to the kiddies.

Royal Pacific Wax Museum
Newport, Oregon 

TEN BADDEST BAD POSTCARDS OF 2011 — #5Your BAD POSTCARDS Blogger Reblogs Ten of his Favorite Postcards of the Year LOUIS PASTEURPotters Wax MuseumSt. Augustine, Florida This is one of my favorite wax museum postcards. I love the arthritic hands. The poor guy can’t bend his fingers enough to get a good grip on the syringe. The taxidermied chinchilla is a nice touch. But Louis isn’t paying attention to what he’s doing. The chilla is getting spiked while Louis is gazing off into space. Not professional. The artist’s laboratory backdrop is kinda cool. Click  HERE to view the original post.

TEN BADDEST BAD POSTCARDS OF 2011 — #5
Your BAD POSTCARDS Blogger Reblogs Ten of his Favorite Postcards of the Year

LOUIS PASTEUR
Potters Wax Museum
St. Augustine, Florida

This is one of my favorite wax museum postcards. I love the arthritic hands. The poor guy can’t bend his fingers enough to get a good grip on the syringe. The taxidermied chinchilla is a nice touch. But Louis isn’t paying attention to what he’s doing. The chilla is getting spiked while Louis is gazing off into space. Not professional. The artist’s laboratory backdrop is kinda cool.

Click  HERE to view the original post.

HUCK FINN SEDUCES MARK TWAIN HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK TWAIN! The name of this wax museum isn’t printed on the verso, but the postcard was printed in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, so I have to assume it’s the American Historical Wax Museum. SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS “MARK TWAIN” 1835 - 1910: American novelist worked as a printer, Mississippi river boat pistol and newspaper reporter. His novels “Innocents Aboard,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Tom Sawyer,” and many more brought him fame as America’s foremost humorist. He is shown with Huck Finn, one of his famous literary figures. Note their typo: Innocents ABOARD instead of ABROAD.

HUCK FINN SEDUCES MARK TWAIN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK TWAIN!

The name of this wax museum isn’t printed on the verso, but the postcard was printed in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, so I have to assume it’s the American Historical Wax Museum.

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS “MARK TWAIN” 1835 - 1910:

American novelist worked as a printer, Mississippi river boat pistol and newspaper reporter. His novels “Innocents Aboard,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Tom Sawyer,” and many more brought him fame as America’s foremost humorist. He is shown with Huck Finn, one of his famous literary figures.

Note their typo: Innocents ABOARD instead of ABROAD.

MAN ON THE MOON NEIL ARMSTRONG, FIRST MAN ON THE MOON “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” American Historical Wax Museum, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here you meet face to face the famous of America’s past and present, life-size, life-like, richly costumed, and magnificently displayed. History walks with you through these aisles of time - the past breaks through at every turn. Each scene is a vivid chapter in American History.

MAN ON THE MOON

NEIL ARMSTRONG, FIRST MAN ON THE MOON

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” American Historical Wax Museum, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here you meet face to face the famous of America’s past and present, life-size, life-like, richly costumed, and magnificently displayed. History walks with you through these aisles of time - the past breaks through at every turn. Each scene is a vivid chapter in American History.

JESUS IN THE SMOKIES There have been plenty of pathetic wax renderings of Jesus, but this one is a winner. What’s up with the girl at the left? She’s been assimilated? CHRISTUS GARDENSGatlinburg, Tennessee A Major Visitor Attraction of the Smokies A favorite alike of young and old is the life-like scene in which Christ is welcoming the little ones to come to his side. This view is a close-up of Christ and two of the children from the larger overall scene. This is but one of the spacious three-dimensional dioramas in which the life of Christ is depicted from beginning to end. Open All Year on the River Road

JESUS IN THE SMOKIES

There have been plenty of pathetic wax renderings of Jesus, but this one is a winner. What’s up with the girl at the left? She’s been assimilated?

CHRISTUS GARDENS
Gatlinburg, Tennessee

A Major Visitor Attraction of the Smokies

A favorite alike of young and old is the life-like scene in which Christ is welcoming the little ones to come to his side. This view is a close-up of Christ and two of the children from the larger overall scene. This is but one of the spacious three-dimensional dioramas in which the life of Christ is depicted from beginning to end.

Open All Year on the River Road