{"id":8884,"date":"2014-03-11T03:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T08:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:03:08","slug":"american-wax-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/03\/11\/american-wax-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"American Wax Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"American<\/a>Yes, Philadelphia once had a wax museum, and fortunately it was AIR CONDITIONED!<\/strong> The wax figures never would have survived a summer in The City of Brotherly Love<\/em> if it wasn’t!<\/p>\n

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\"clawrence\"<\/a>This was an ad from a playbill for the Valley Forge Music Fair’s<\/em><\/strong><\/a> 1967 season. I don’t have an recollection of the American Wax Museum. I don’t remember hearing ads for it on radio or television. My guess is that the wax works had shuffled off of this mortal coil by the time I was taking field trips in school. I searched a round the internet and came up dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, Philadelphia once had a wax museum, and fortunately it was AIR CONDITIONED! The wax figures never would have survived a summer in The City of Brotherly Love if it wasn’t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,120,104],"tags":[110,3080,3084,3081,3083,354,3669,3079,302,336,3082],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-philadelphia","tag-1960s","tag-american-wax-museum","tag-field-trip","tag-funny-girl","tag-historic","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-the-bourse","tag-valley-forge-music-fair","tag-vintage","tag-wax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2ji","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18612,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/23\/aloha-means-good-bye\/","url_meta":{"origin":8884,"position":0},"title":"Aloha Means Good-Bye","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Another platter from the Stax O' Wax Collection of a huge stash of records found at a Philadelphia area printer.","rel":"","context":"In "Curious Clutter"","block_context":{"text":"Curious Clutter","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/curious-clutter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Aloha means good-bye","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2086\/2263726744_37f8fdbeaf_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2086\/2263726744_37f8fdbeaf_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2086\/2263726744_37f8fdbeaf_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18527,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/16\/stax-o-wax-huge-stash-of-old-vinyl-records\/","url_meta":{"origin":8884,"position":1},"title":"Stax o’ Wax – Huge Stash of Old Vinyl Records","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A customized van full of happiness! 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