Hello Happy Friday Hivers!! Today I take you back to my time at the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Air and Space Museum I visited a couple of weeks ago on a Friday. In this particular article I will go through the gift shop I visited there. I will also include somethings I didn't in my original article. So this will be my article for #marketfriday thank you @dswigle for a great day to share something.
So probably the best exhibit in my opinion in the museum is that of the SR-71 Black Bird. It's the first thing you see when entering the building. I might be a little bias because it's one of my all time favorite aircraft. The gift shop had prints, cups, hats, models, toys and more of it. If I was in the buying mood I would have picked up a coffee mug or a hat.
The B-25 Mitchell was the the aircraft of choice that was used to bomb Japan intially in retaliation of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Those who were part of the mission were later known as the "Dolittle Raiders." In the second photo is just a see only display of the B-25 which contains a print with some autographs of some of those Dolittle raiders. Also on the display rack is B-17 Aircraft. This aircraft was used in the European theatre and it dropped the most bombs of any aircraft in World War II. A few cups and models were displayed for sale.
An inside look of B-25 aircraft on display at the museum. The Dolittle Raid included 16 B-25 that took off from an aircraft carrier. This was a one way trip as there wasn't enough fuel to come back. What you see in the pictures are the cockpit, walkway, and bombing bay. Last picture is a B-17 they had on display at the museum.
A small display that has some SAC embedded images on items. The patches are authentic and they would have been worn on uniforms for those individuals that were assigned to the SAC Command. I have my own small collection of these patches. Last picture is a co-worker's collection, he's got a much larger collection than me.
Pictured above are some space related items for sale. Toy space capsules, space stations and astronauts would be cool toys for the kids. Also models of the space shuttle that could spice up most shelves at home.
Here up at the front counter they had some cool figurines of more space related items. They would make good knick knacks on a shelf. Also were some souvenir pens with dangling astronauts.
This is last of the things I found interesting in the gift shop. They had space googles and a look-a-like space flight suits for the kids. The thing that I almost thought about buying was some space food. Different packaging but all the same type of food. It was a dried frozen ice cream sandwich.
The only bad thing I noticed is almost all of merchandise didn't have price tags on it. I wasn't going to go up to the pay counter to turn away and put the merchandise back if the prices were too high. I guess this was the one negative thing about the whole gift store experience. I wanted to try that space food and keep one for keep sake though.
There were other things the gift shop had that I didn't photograph. This list includes posters, puzzles, books, coloring books, and a few others things.
I hope you enjoyed me showing you around this pretty cool air and space gift store. I appreciate you stopping by and reading this far. Take care, be safe, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.