Banana museum collection for sale
 

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That's pretty neat... I wonder where it might be relocated to? Florida would be a better place I think. :^)

Big banana collection needs home!
 

source: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_14818598

Big banana collection needs home!LOL

Top banana Ken Bannister, who split for Hesperia a decade ago having failed to sell his Altadena-based Banana Museum and International Banana Club for $900,000, is back in the headlines. And his collection is back on eBay.

Both the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio found the story, well, appealing.

The WSJ story said Bannister got a letter from the Hesperia Recreation & Parks District in January informing him his 38-year banana collection must move out of the rent-free city space to be "replaced by artifacts collected by the late John Swisher, a local historian."

A December 1999 story in the Star-News reported that Bannister had put up for sale his 17,000-item collection of "banana lights, clocks, golf-putters, banana soap, shampoo and soda, banana pipes, tobacco, lip gloss, toothbrushes, popcorn, eight-foot banana sofa, gold-sequinned Michael Jackson banana and the infamous petrified banana, which Bannister says he will be sorriest to part with," plus the BananaClub.com name.

He hoped to attract "someone like Bill Gates."

Bill didn't bite.

Since February, Bannister's asking price has gone from $45,000 to $35,000, and now $7,500 for the collection alone.

Even at that price, it's not likely the Altadena community will rally to bring it back.

In 1999, former town Councilman Steve Lamb made the point that bananas don't grow in Altadena. "They're not part of our culture," he said. "It's not like it's an avocado museum."

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And Im affraid it will remain homeless:ha:
:woohoonaner:

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i wonder if he will take banana bucks ?

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:ha::ha::ha:
:nanadrink:

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Eventually he will. ;) And that's our moment. :ha: :ha: :ha:

I could buy it and auction the items here. Even if I got $1 for each I'll make $10,000. That would help with the stucco job.

The International Banana Club

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Can you imagine those shipping prices? ;) Twice as much as the price of those items. :waving:

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I did an interview related to this story about a month and a half ago with a journalist from the Wall Street Journal. She was supposed to let me know when their story was coming out. She wanted to know what attracted "us" to growing bananas. I think she thought that we all had collections like Mr. Bannister. I told her that some folks here may collect some banana-related items but that we were primarily focused on growing.

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Now, that is funny! :):)

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*Similar threads merged*
Sounds like quite the collection!

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If he takes Banana bucks I'll donate 1000 to the cause of keeping the collection alive & well:^)

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So do you think they would accept banana bucks to pay my school loans off? If so, looks like I've still got a LONG way to go, but it would surely help! :ha:

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Washington Banana Museum

The Banana Club Museum