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Jun 16, 04, 11:48 am
Another 15 minutes for the original Hall of Fame?
Bronx hall hopes to raise profile
Tucked away in the Bronx, just a short stroll from the No. 4 subway line, the greatest Americans in history assemble in obscurity: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain.
A bust of each sits in a magnificent colonnade at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a tourist attraction from an era when prominence didn't come from getting voted off the island.
Few guests visit anymore. The collection remains unknown and unappreciated -- its 15 minutes past? -- even as dozens of other halls of fame sprout nationwide: the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. The Celebrity Lingerie Hall of Fame. Even the Cockroach Hall of Fame.
Despite the competition, the new director of the Bronx hall -- the first of its kind in the United States -- hopes to resurrect its past glory...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/06/16/halls.of.fame.ap/index.html
Bronx hall hopes to raise profile
Tucked away in the Bronx, just a short stroll from the No. 4 subway line, the greatest Americans in history assemble in obscurity: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain.
A bust of each sits in a magnificent colonnade at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a tourist attraction from an era when prominence didn't come from getting voted off the island.
Few guests visit anymore. The collection remains unknown and unappreciated -- its 15 minutes past? -- even as dozens of other halls of fame sprout nationwide: the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. The Celebrity Lingerie Hall of Fame. Even the Cockroach Hall of Fame.
Despite the competition, the new director of the Bronx hall -- the first of its kind in the United States -- hopes to resurrect its past glory...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/06/16/halls.of.fame.ap/index.html