Music on Mondays: Out & About to see bits and pieces
I thought I would combine today’s Music on Mondays post with an
Out & About series post. You’ll understand. I hope.
Today’s Music on Mondays is “Bits & Pieces.” Two different ones for your listening pleasure as you read further and enjoy some pictures of bits and pieces.
Balboa Park near downtown San Diego has many museums, one of which is the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
It’s common for airplane, train, and car museums to requisition, renovate, rebuild, and reconstruct (hereafter, 4R) historic pieces for display, and to store parts for their operating pieces and their 4R work.
But when was the last time you went to a museum and saw bits and pieces lying around the museum grounds?
Probably “never” is going to be my guess.
Well, recently I did.
I made it to the San Diego Air & Space Museum Annex, where they keep the bits and pieces, and the 4R projects. It’s not located anywhere near the museum, though. It’s way out in El Cajon at 335 Kenny Street:
Following are some pictures from the Museum Annex. If you get anywhere near the Annex (“near” defined as “within about five miles”), you’ll know you’re close because you’ll see a huge rocket sticking up in the middle of nowhere, certainly taller than anything else around:
Of course, every air and space museum has to have a space dog:
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Posted on October 22, 2012, in Halls of History, History, Music on Mondays, Out & About, Photos and tagged bits and pieces, dave clark five, joan jett and the blackhearts, san diego air and space museum annex. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
I enjoyed the music – I think I prefer the Dave Clark Five one! It looks really interesting. My Dad was in the Air Force and I have always been interested in planes.
My dad also was in the Air Force. We’re two Air Force brats!……….lol
Really enjoyed both versions.. I have long been a fan of Joan Jett’s abitlity to make a song her own..
Have you heard her version of “Little Drummer Boy.” Talk about making a song her own…….
Space dogs… love it
I haven’t heard that music for a very long time but it goes well with the pictures of your blog.
Oh how i loved the Dave Clark Five when I was young.
Great post, Russel.
Great post and yet another place to visit when we get settled in San Diego.
Thanks for reblogging this. I read it on the original post. Its just unbelievable we have to suffer long after combat and we have come home.
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My mom’s side of the family was Air Force, and my daughter is engaged to a fine young adult in the Air Force! Great post! Bits and pieces; love both songs : )
I’ve been to the Air and Space Museum a few times -but never the annex. I know I’ve seen the plane with the face…the one pictured above the “space dog”. Am thinking it was at one point featured in the Air and Space Museum? Unless I saw something similar at the Smithsonian…that’s the only other Air & Space Museum I’ve been too in recent memory.
The Air & Space Museum has one also. The one at the Annex is not a complete plane, so it’s probably for parts for for a future rebuild.
Ah, okay. That explains it! It’s been a few years since I’ve been, I just know that plane looked familiar.