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Haines, Alaska - Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, located on Main Street, has over 1,400 hammers on display. This unique museum is easy to find as there is a very large hammer in front. On display in four rooms are various collections of hammers from ancient times through the industrial age. [Margie Hovde and daughter Brinn, 07/29/2007][RA: April 2008: Owner Dave Pahl now has more than 1,700 hammers. The ex-homesteader has hired an intern and wants to expand his building and (someday) attract a corporate sponser.]Hammer Museum:
Address: 108 Main Street, Haines, AK [Show Map]
Directions: Just up the hill from the boat harbor.
Admission: $3 (Kids 12 & under Free)
Hours: M-F 10 am - 5 pm. (Call to verify)
Phone: 907-766-2374- Anniston, Alabama - Adolf Hitler's Tea Service
Adolf Hitler's tea service plots porcelain domination in the Berman Museum of World History's coffee and tea service collection. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
Adolf Hitler's Tea Service:
Address: 840 Museum Dr, Anniston, AL [Show Map]
Directions: Berman Museum of World History. Jct. of Hwy 431 and 21. In Lagarde Park, next door to the Museum of Natural History.
Phone: 256-237-6261 - Anniston, Alabama - Adolf Hitler's Tea Service The Berman museum is located on the main drag in Anniston, just before you get to
the first Ft. McClellan gate. The items in the museum were donated by COL
Berman (ret), an ex OSS officer in WWII. Some of us suspect he obtained the
items in his collection by trading food to starving Germans at the end of
the war. A number of the items in his collection really belong in the
Smithsonian; Hitler's travelling silver set, gold/jewel encrusted swords, a
greek helmet, etc.
This museum is really worth a visit (on my last visit there 2-3 years ago, the museum was only about 75% finished). I've heard he has since died and the rest of his stuff moved in. The building to house his collection cost over a million bucks, so you can imagine he had quite a private collection. [Mark T., 05/05/2001]
Adolf Hitler's Tea Service:
Address: 840 Museum Dr, Anniston, AL [Show Map]
Directions: Berman Museum of World History. Jct. of Hwy 431 and 21. In Lagarde Park, next door to the Museum of Natural History.
Phone: 256-237-6261 - Eutaw, Alabama - Sculptures made of haystacks On a rural stretch of Alabama highway 43, there is an open field with a collection of sculptures made of haystacks, such as a pink car atop four haystack wheels, an octopus, and several other less recognizable animals with big smiley faces. A tall wooden gate leading down a dirt road in the center of the field says "BIRD." It's a fascinating and mysterious site.
The hay sculptures are between Eutaw and Demopolis on Hwy. 43. One who has been to Demopolis lately says they're "kinda falling apart now," and he thinks the farm belongs to a Bird family. [Julie Bell, 09/12/1999]
Fort Payne, Alabama - Zirpa Anad Nitsurd A very interesting collection of metal. Breastplates are
Ford and DeSoto
hubcaps, very good assortment of automotive parts and household appliances.
Sign says; My name is "Zirpa Anad Nitsurd". Created by Mike Goggens, 1999. [Tony Lowros, 11/23/2000]Zirpa Anad Nitsurd:
Address: Fort Payne, AL
Directions: Alabama highway 89, north of Fort Payne, on the way to Desoto State Park.
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