Friday, May 27, 2011

I'd Like The Goo-Gen-Heim


Ever since I was a lil one I have loved The Guggenheim Museum in New York City, mainly due to my Dad's Frank Lloyd Wright pop-up book. Dad is a huge fan of architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright in particular, so he and others made sure to feed my early-interest with photos, Legos and books, like A.C. Hollingsworth's I'd Like The Goo-Gen-Heim.
All of this enabling culminated in a visit to NYC for my 5th birthday. Casey, Dad and I arrived in Brooklyn, where we were generously supplied a place to stay by Dad's best friend Dave. It was a comfortable studio in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, but luckily the bed was big enough for the three of us. Once we had our headquarters established, we headed out each day for a whirlwind tour of Brooklyn and New York. We hit the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Coney Island, The Met, Central Park, the American Museum Of Natural History , Times Square, The Empire State Building and- not surprisingly- The Guggenheim. We even took a ride on The Beast, which raced us across the New York harbor to the Statue Of Liberty.
Dad told me he had been to New York many times, but this was his first time really being a tourist in the city, which he seemed to enjoy. He especially liked the paddle boats in Central park, Casey dug the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met (me too) and I liked the Goo-Gen-Heim. Of course.

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