Rock and Roll hall of fame

Okay...so I was about to go to the grocery store and a fierce August storm broke out. Remember those crazy Ohio thunderstorms? I decided to wait a few minutes and let it pass. Before I continue with my final vacation installment :) I wanted to let you know that I added new photo albums to my photo site and a new video to youtube. (it's chalk on the walk stuff) Anyhow, both are accessible on the sidebars of this blog.

First impressions of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

- It looks bigger than it actually is...

- NOT kid friendly

- Pretty cool if you like looking at memorabilia (which I do)

- Rock stars are very small people. I couldn't believe how utterly tiny the costumes from nearly every person in there were.

- The most interesting stuff in that museum is in the dark....so if you can't see well in the dark...you loose! Seriously, your eyes adjust :)

It was a gorgeous day and we parked next to the Browns stadium and walked over the to the Hall of Fame. I was snapping pictures of the architectually confusing building and having a lovely time, but when we got inside I was shocked to find out that you can't take pictures in there at all. In fact, they actually confiscate your camera and there are guards and staff in every single nook and cranny watching for camera smugglers!! LOL Therefor, I only have pictures that I could take in the lobby and from the outside of the building.

We were all split up through most of the museum because we all moved at our own pace and found different things interesting. Tilden was deep into the 70's bands and information while I was fascinated by the 80's and the very early stuff. I loved listening on headphones to the early era disc jockey's. I think that I was most interested to see Michael Jackson's red leather coat from his Thriller video as well as one of the Grammy's he won for that album. I thought a Grammy would be a lot more fancy and detailed. They also had his jewel studded glove in an air tight chamber..revolving slowly. I found THAT to be funny! LOL

Jake just ran from car to car. They have a purple Cadillac from Elvis, Roy Orbison's corvette, and Janis Joplin's phychodelic Porsche just to name a few. I think that Micah was most interested in the props from music video's. I was able to get this picture of a giant hot dog from a Phish video because it was visible from the lobby. I got a picture of Tilden and Jake coming up the escalator in front of it...heeheee. They have the actual wall and giant scary dude from the Pink Floyd "The Wall" video. It was HUGE and actually kind of scary!

There were 3 or 4 movies to watch, but we didn't end up seeing any of them. One was not suggested for children and the other 2 were over an hour long each. They have nice big theaters built to show those movies, but because Jake and Micah were with us we opted not to try to see them. I don't think Jake would have sat through even ONE of those movies. The only one that we watched was about the filming of the Beatles movie, "Help". You would have to be there for a minimum of 4 hours to see all the movies plus the museum stuff. Most people get their wristband and come back during show times.

The lobby is decorated with a lot of guitar statues made by local artist. They were pretty fascinating. Here are a few of them:

We enjoyed ourselves :)