# What Are You Glad You Have Seen In Your Lifetime (As in relics) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060 "2008-04-05T09:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/21 "2008-04-05T23:57:03Z")
The Treasures of Tutankhamun in the 1970’s. Yosemite, when they still did the fire fall off Glacier Point Grand Canyon Mesa Verde; in particular, Cliff Palace and Balcony House Chaco Canyon The Winchester House Tabor Opera House Mount Rushmore Boulder Dam Animas Forks, CO (ghost town) Bodie, CA (same) Aztec Ruins NM ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/22 "2008-04-06T00:36:49Z")
I have seen a rock. It was once part of Earth’s Moon. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/23 "2008-04-06T00:41:04Z")
The Naked Maja, the Clothed Maja, and the [Family of the Infante Don Luis](http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/past/img/goya_400.jpg) at a Goya exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/24 "2008-04-06T00:57:43Z")
The fall of Communism! ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/25 "2008-04-06T01:06:49Z")
Chartres cathedral was the first thing that came to mind for me. (original stained glass from the 12th c.) [QUOTE=Beware of Doug] The Rosetta Stone. Especially since its impingement on my consciousness was so…_unexpected._ I was just placidly turning a corner in the British Museum and surprise, there it is. No ropes around it or anything. [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure this isn’t the case anymore. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/26 "2008-04-06T01:50:28Z")
USS _Constitution_ a fragment of the hull of USS _Thresher_ - (kept behind lead glass) Jacques Cousteau Notre Dame Cathedral Having been to the top of the three major NYC landmarks: The Empire State Building, the WTT, and the Statue of Liberty The US graveyard at Normandy Chartres Cathedral ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/27 "2008-04-06T01:57:07Z")
I’ve seen many of what’s already mentioned, but as for something historical that is no longer around, that would be the Berlin Wall. I’ve always thought they should have kept it standing as a monument. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/28 "2008-04-06T02:12:13Z")
King Tut exhibit in Cairo museum, the Pyramids and the Sphinx Acropolis in Athens JFK’s funeral Parade in Washington DC Eisenhower’s funeral train Roberto Clemente’s 3000th hit I personally waited on the entire 97 Stanley Cup RedWings (sans Goalies) waited on Gretzky numerous time (several w/ Brett Hull) My favorite…Jerry Garcia’s last seven concerts. ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/29 "2008-04-06T02:20:19Z")
[QUOTE=ThisSpaceForRent] I personally waited on the entire 97 Stanley Cup RedWings (sans Goalies) [/QUOTE] Do goalies not get to hang out with the rest of the guys? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/30 "2008-04-06T02:27:47Z")
Halley’s Comet, which was something of a disappointment. But there was another, Hayakutake, which was very impressive. It appears the Apocalypse will arrive before the Cubs win the World Series. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/31 "2008-04-06T02:30:34Z")
I’m glad that I’ve personally seen: Westminster Abbey Tower of London Cathedral of St. Stephen and the Matyas Church in Budapest St. Vitus’ Cathedral & The Church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague British Museum Louvre The Alamo San Jacinto USS Texas (BB-35, not SSN-775) Tower of London Launch of the first Shuttle mission (Dad let me stay home from 2nd grade to watch on TV) Old mission control at the Johnson Space Center (really, the old JSC pre-Shuttle in general) New Orleans pre Katrina ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/32 "2008-04-06T02:34:59Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] Do goalies not get to hang out with the rest of the guys? [/QUOTE] As a rule…no they do not…seriously. Goalies, are a bit ummm quirky … I did, at a later date get a chance to wait on Osgood and on a separate occasion Cujo. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/33 "2008-04-06T02:50:08Z")
Captain Bligh’s diary from The Bounty, including his notes about the day of the mutiny. The Berlin Wall (and getting to bash it with a piece of pipe in 1990) Auschwitz A pair of evening shoes that a survivor was wearing on board The Titanic the evening it sank A bottle melted by the bomb on Hiroshima Uncle Ho, in Hanoi (well, not so much glad to see, but it was fascinating) Sun Studios Pompeii The Arizona, Pearl Harbour Tutenkhamen’s Tomb ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/34 "2008-04-06T03:24:30Z")
There are so many things in this thread that I would like to see. I’ll add: A bit of Roman wall, plus the Tower of London that it was across the road from. That one impressed me. London in general: the ancient city of my English ancestors. We found the house where my great-grandfather had lived before the First World War. Helsinki. Egyptian antiquities at the Royal Ontario Museum. Including King Tut’s mask one year. The dinosaurs at the ROM. The [Museum of the Resistance](http://www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw23424.asp) in Copenhagen. I stumbled across this unexpectedly: I was just walking along and wondered, “What that shot-up old truck outside that building?” I went in. And when I saw the reconstruction of the concentration-camp fence inside, with its distinctive concrete posts, suddenly the Second World War was real to me. It wasn’t just something in historical footage on TVOntario. _It really happened, right here in this city around me._ I shivered. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/35 "2008-04-06T04:42:50Z")
Several things, but the one that comes immediately to mind is a Japanese Zero at an airshow last year. I told my kids to take a very close look, because they’d never see one again. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/36 "2008-04-06T04:48:09Z")
The Kathmandu Valley is a good one. It’s a virtual living museum. Walk around a corner, and there’s a 1500-year-old statue sticking up out of the sidewalk, with the locals using it to dry their clothes on! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/37 "2008-04-06T05:45:54Z")
[QUOTE=dangermom] Several things, but the one that comes immediately to mind is a Japanese Zero at an airshow last year. I told my kids to take a very close look, because they’d never see one again. [/QUOTE] I hadn’t even thought along those lines. I saw a Sopwith Camel at the Imperial War Memorial in London. And the German tank from WW1 at the Brisbane Museum. I think it is the only one still in existence. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/38 "2008-04-06T05:54:51Z")
And I saw the Rolling Stones play Dallas in 1981. Talk about relics! ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/39 "2008-04-06T06:42:19Z")
I haven’t traveled much outside California, and this thread makes me wish I had. ☹ Here’s my list: Santa Ines mission (but only the outside) The old Spanish fort at the foot of the Golden Gate bridge. Avila Adobe, the oldest house still standing in Olvera St. An illuminated manuscript at the Huntington Library. I saw it with my one of my high school English classes. Since we weren’t allowed to handle the book, the docent let us pass around some parchment so we could see what it felt like to touch it. The cathedral at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, when I was 9. There was an actual relic of some saint, a young girl whose body had supposedly never decomposed after she died. My mom tried to get me to go see the body, but I wouldn’t go near it. The rock star memorabilia at the Hard Rock Hotel, especially Buddy Holly’s suit and Jimi Hendrix’s vest made of peacock feathers. This last one was in a display case in an area of the casino. When I attempted to get close enough to take a photo, some guy who was sitting near it, not even within camera range, motioned toward me with one of the most contemptuous expressions I’ve ever seen on a man’s face and said, “You. Outta here.” I was too intimidated to do anything but comply, even though I had no idea who the hell he was, and had no desire to take a picture of his ugly face. :mad: I still get angry when I think about it, because I didn’t stand up for myself when I should’ve. At least I got to see Jimi’s vest up close for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060/40 "2008-04-06T06:42:47Z")
The Titanic exhibit. The salvaged artifacts were incredibly poignant. And the room of shoes in the Holocost Museum in DC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-glad-you-have-seen-in-your-lifetime-as-in-relics/444060.md?page=3)