Posted by Brian Miller Brian --Previous Message--
on 11/14/2005, 10:33 pm, in reply to "furniture?"
I first started hanging out around the Whaley House in early 1980. I used to spend almost every weekend volunteering labor and doing odd jobs for the Historical Shrine Foundation around the property. I spent many hours interviwing the guides who worked in the house and June Reading, the original curator of the Whaley House. June told me that most of the furniture in the house actually belonged to the Whaley family. They had a lot more Whaley family furniture in storage that needed to be restored. Most of the furniture is from the Civil War era. Some of the clothing that was displayed on the manakins also belonged to the Whaleys.
: hey!
: ive been to the whaley house 2 times in my
: life, once as a kid on a field trip and then
: one recently with a friend. we couldnt get
: enough! i love the house, and the costumes
: the docents wear are great. after i visited,
: later that week i started looking at
: websites and googling the whaley house. i
: dont believe everything the internet says of
: course and its funny how the different
: stories and information vary on small
: details. i was trying to read back on this
: message board to find out what i could about
: the furniture but then i read that the house
: was hardly furnished at all in the
: beginning. so where did the furniture come
: from that is there now? and how much of the
: furniture and things actually belonged to
: the whaleys? i also read that some of the
: stuff was donated by older san diego
: families. so i was just curious. i love the
: furniture!
:
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