# How many Halls of Fame have you been to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124 "2018-07-01T23:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/1 "2018-07-01T23:48:18Z")
My list is very short: [ul] [li]The Hockey Hall of Fame[/li][li]The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[/li][/ul] Which HOF’s have you been to? Bragging right to the Doper who has visited the most. mmm ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/2 "2018-07-02T00:38:38Z")
RRHOF Rodeo Hall of Fame International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame Utah Aviation Hall of Fame US Bicycling Hall of Fame RV/Motorhome Hall of Fame Breitbard Hall of Fame (San Diego athletes) National Aviation Hall of Fame California Aviation Hall of Fame US Astronaut Hall of Fame Grammy Hall of Fame ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/3 "2018-07-02T00:45:19Z")
oops, missed the edit window: International Clown Hall of Fame ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/4 "2018-07-02T01:01:29Z")
Canton Ohio Football Hall of Fame Yep that’s it ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/5 "2018-07-02T01:05:50Z")
Baseball hall of fame (more than once) Women’s hall of fame (probably-- certainly in the town where it is) Country Music Hall of fame ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/6 "2018-07-02T01:12:47Z")
Catholics want to go to the Vatican at least once. Muslims want to go to Mecca at least once. I went to Cooperstown. 🙂 Also been to a couple minor ones that I don’t remember (along the lines of what **blondbear** listed). ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/7 "2018-07-02T01:16:53Z")
Just the baseball HoF, which is great. I thought about going to the NBA one once while driving through Springfield MA but didn’t. Probably won’t now. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/8 "2018-07-02T01:52:33Z")
Just Cooperstown and the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/9 "2018-07-02T02:00:13Z")
Baseball and Rock & Roll. It’s all a girl needs. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/10 "2018-07-02T12:54:35Z")
Zero. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/11 "2018-07-02T13:20:01Z")
None. I’m not sure I could even say with certainty where any of them are. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/12 "2018-07-02T13:51:37Z")
Just baseball. Very interesting. The most amusing thing is that they displayed scorecards from a NY sportswriter and a Philadelphia sportswriter and I could not really understand the former, while I could read the Philly one perfectly. I’m from Philly and my father taught me to score. I taught my son, who lives in Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/13 "2018-07-02T14:28:29Z")
I confess, I never ever considered that any of those “hall of fame” concepts were actual physical entities, I assumed they were just an honorific. Are they like museums with…like…people in it? a name plate? a photo? a piece of memorabilia? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/14 "2018-07-02T15:36:11Z")
Women’s basketball hall of fame College football hall of fame Rock & Roll hall of fame ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/15 "2018-07-02T15:51:45Z")
I think only the International Polka Association Hall of Fame and the Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame (because I was working there.) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/16 "2018-07-02T15:52:15Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > Women’s hall of fame (probably-- certainly in the town where it is) I was going to say zero, but your post reminded me that I have been to the [Nation Women’s Hall of Fame](https://www.womenofthehall.org/) on a school trip. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/17 "2018-07-02T16:06:57Z")
Zero. Unless the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History counts. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/18 "2018-07-02T17:10:25Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I confess, I never ever considered that any of those “hall of fame” concepts were actual physical entities, I assumed they were just an honorific. > Are they like museums with…like…people in it? a name plate? a photo? a piece of memorabilia? Usually there will be a room with plaques for each of the “members” of the hall, then the rest of the building will be basically a museum, yes. Many of the museum exhibits will have items from HOF members (a Babe Ruth bat, a Keith Richards guitar, a Jim Brown helmet) but the items on display are not limited to items related exclusively to the members. The HOF will also do rotating exhibits like a museum does. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/19 "2018-07-02T17:33:17Z")
Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame That is all. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124/20 "2018-07-02T20:08:29Z")
Do Walks of Fame or Walls of Fame count? I’ll bet more than a few folks here have strolled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-halls-of-fame-have-you-been-to/817124.md?page=2)