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    Our favorite Holiday Tourism Images

    You will certainly love the holiday tourism images below: Stormtroopers 365 > Day 94/365 [Subscribe] No doubt the holidaymakers were flown out on British Caledonian planes. 34 George Street is now the home of Defune Japanese Restaurant. (reads a bit like defunct!) Africoast Holidays was also at 40/41 or 42 Conduit St. British Caledonian Airways operated between 1970 and 1988. TOurism was still being encouraged for 1994/5 as here using Sierra Leone Airines. More BCal ephemera on these pages on their site.

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    Some Cool Boston Museums Images

    Today was the last day that the Charles Hayden Planetarium’s Carl Zeiss projector was used at the Museum of Science in Boston. It has been here since 1970, though it itself replaced the museum’s original projector from ten years earlier. Tomorrow, this projector gets decommissioned, dismantled, and shipped to another museum in Colorado. I remember going to see presentations with it as a kid in the early 1980s, and maybe even earlier than that. (I also remember seeing laser shows to Pink Floyd albums as a teenager in the 1990s, but I’m not sure if the projector has anything to do with the laser shows.) The new projector is going…