hughes_collector
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As my username implies, I collect Hughes. Or rather, I collect Hughes Aircraft Company items, which are not all that easy to find anymore (since they have been pretty much out of business since 1997). But...why?
I have no personal connection to the company. Neither I nor anyone in my family has ever worked there. Or even lived anywhere near any of their locations.
I have no interest in Howard Hughes (except in relation to his founding the company), nor am I even slightly interested in avaition or airplanes or anything like that. Actually Hughes didn't even build planes except in its earliest years- it mainly was involved in aerospace, electronics, and defense work. Many people don't realize that even today, they seem to think it was just like Boeing or something.
It all started when I was about 15. How many teen girls take an interest in some corporation for no real good reason? But I did. Don't ask me to explain. No can do.
And here I am many, many years later and still occasionally collecting stuff relating to it! I have T-shirts (both vintage genuine as well as newer replicas), a coffee mug, a couple of old and probably broken digital watches made by Hughes in the 1970s, as well as other assorted odds and ends. I even have a real sign with their logo that came from one of their offices, along with a framed 'Mission and Guiding Values' from the same office.
And just this past week I ordered two books about the history of the company!
What. The. Heck?! :spin: *Runs off to see a shrink*
So what makes some people collect completely random, weird stuff anyway?
I have no personal connection to the company. Neither I nor anyone in my family has ever worked there. Or even lived anywhere near any of their locations.
I have no interest in Howard Hughes (except in relation to his founding the company), nor am I even slightly interested in avaition or airplanes or anything like that. Actually Hughes didn't even build planes except in its earliest years- it mainly was involved in aerospace, electronics, and defense work. Many people don't realize that even today, they seem to think it was just like Boeing or something.
It all started when I was about 15. How many teen girls take an interest in some corporation for no real good reason? But I did. Don't ask me to explain. No can do.
And here I am many, many years later and still occasionally collecting stuff relating to it! I have T-shirts (both vintage genuine as well as newer replicas), a coffee mug, a couple of old and probably broken digital watches made by Hughes in the 1970s, as well as other assorted odds and ends. I even have a real sign with their logo that came from one of their offices, along with a framed 'Mission and Guiding Values' from the same office.
And just this past week I ordered two books about the history of the company!
What. The. Heck?! :spin: *Runs off to see a shrink*
So what makes some people collect completely random, weird stuff anyway?