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A specialized button museum is the National Pearl Button Museum in Muscatine, Iowa, the "Pearl Button Capital of the World" in the early 1900s. A button museum within a museum is the Waterbury Button Museum in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT. Buttons have been manufactured in Waterbury for over 200 years, first by hand, then by machine. [16]
People stood alongside the curb of N. Spruce Street across from the Little Ike Park parking lot waiting in anticipation for the unveiling of the World’s Largest I Like Ike Button. Unveiled June ...
Carlos Martín Ballester (born 1974): 75,000 78 rpm records (carlosmb archive) plus 5,000 78 rpms records and 200 cylinders (private collection). [27] It is the largest collection of 78 rpm records pressed in Spain. Part of the archive is on sale and new items are added regularly. [28] Elton John (born 1947): 70,000 items. [29]
In 1998, the Button King was featured in Episode 4 of Weird Homes. A display wall in the Button King museum celebrates Stevens' media appearances, which also include Time, Roadsideamerica.com, and TV appearances with Bill Cosby, Geraldo and Regis and Kathy Lee. [2] [11] The Button King was featured in a 2010 episode of Destination Truth.
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In the heyday of the music box, some variations were as tall as a grandfather clock and all used interchangeable large disks to play different sets of tunes. These were spring-wound and driven and both had a bell-like sound. The machines were often made in England, Italy, and the US, with additional disks made in Switzerland, Austria, and Prussia.
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A new study examined dogs that had been "trained" with soundboard buttons, and the findings are fascinating. A study published in PLOS ONE on August 28, 2024, highlights some interesting findings ...