A James Bond Museum in Illinois, U.S.A.??

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• Dan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  It's not uncommon for significant museums and halls of fame to be in unusual areas. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is, for example, in Cleveland, rather than New York or LA.

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• Loeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters

  July 2009 edited July 2009

  Cleveland makes a bit more sense; It was a Cleveland radio disc jockey, Alan Freed, who coined the phrase 'rock and roll' to describe the fusion of blues and R & B, and started giving it some serious rotation in the early Fifties, making it an arguable 'birthplace'...and of course, it would have been cheaper to build the museum in Cleveland than NYC or LA.
  
  So in that sense, a Bond museum in Illinois is going to cost less to run and maintain than it would in other areas...then again, it will also suppress potential visitor footsteps, as it's certainly unclear how many people will travel across oceans and countries to come to the middle of nowhere to look at the Q-Boat, or one of the original film DB5s. I'll certainly travel across Illinois to see them...

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• thesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  No offence Leoff, but I've been through Illinois, and beautiful though much of it was, James Bond hardly sprung to mind whilst I was there. Will certainly detour when I'm nearby next time though...

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• hegottheboot USAPosts: 327MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  Definitely closer than the car museum in the U.K. Only a few states away! I remember that man driving the Q-boat in a history channel special a few years back. They also gave a little tour of the IFF-saw Neptune and the Moonraker Glastron. It's nice that they decided to have it open to the public.
• Loeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters

  July 2009

  thesecretagent wrote:

  No offence Leoff, but I've been through Illinois, and beautiful though much of it was, James Bond hardly sprung to mind whilst I was there.

  
  Yeah, that's my point (no offence taken, BTW ) )---why do you think I got into the original Flemings when I was a kid? Anything to escape the flatlands, even if only vicariously! ) A less likely place for Bond I cannot imagine.
  

  thesecretagent wrote:

  Will certainly detour when I'm nearby next time though...

  
  When you do, let me know B-)

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• hegottheboot USAPosts: 327MI6 Agent

  July 2009

  Loeffelholz wrote:

  Yeah, that's my point (no offence taken, BTW ) )---why do you think I got into the original Flemings when I was a kid? Anything to escape the flatlands, even if only vicariously! ) A less likely place for Bond I cannot imagine.

  
  I did the same thing in Tennessee. At least the museum isn't there. The world Fleming described is so far from today and yet so real that it just springs right off the page.
• Herr Michael Posts: 360MI6 Agent

  August 2009

  Interesting if nothing else. I'm in Southern Illinois so I'd make the trek as well. Can't imagine Bond ever having business in this state though. Unless it was to investigate international corruption. Illinois my have branched out you know...8-)