LeMay Car Museum Walkthrough Part 4 END: Level 1. Tremendous vintage car collection 美國古董汽車博物館P4

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  • LeMay - America's Car Museum: Level 1
    🚙 LeMay - America's Car Museum is a museum in the city of Tacoma, Washington. The museum is adjacent to the Tacoma Dome and opened on June 2, 2012. Many of the cars on display were donated to the museum by the family of Harold LeMay.
    Harold LeMay owned a successful refuse company, Harold LeMay Enterprises, within the Tacoma metro area and amassed the world's largest private car collection. After his death, the city of Tacoma donated 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land next to the Tacoma Dome for the museum that would contain some of his car collection. The majority of the collection remains at the LeMay Family Collection at Marymount in nearby Spanaway. The museum has 165,000 square feet (1.53 ha) of exhibit space, and contains a 350-car gallery showing cars notable for their speed, technology and design, as well as their importance to car culture. The building also contains gift shops, restoration shops, lecture halls, galleries, a banquet room, and a café.
    From the mezzanine level, main level, and outside patio, there are views of Downtown Tacoma, Thea Foss Waterway, Commencement Bay, and the Olympic Mountains. Outside the museum is a 3-acre (1.2 ha) courtyard and clubhouse for car clubs. The outdoor area is suitable for hosting car shows, auctions, swap meets, car club events, new car launches, and a concours d'Elegance.
    The museum has had "Club Auto" satellite locations in Tacoma, Kirkland, Washington, and Lakewood, Colorado.
    👨🏻‍🦳 Harold E. LeMay (September 4, 1919 - November 4, 2000) was the owner of Harold LeMay Enterprises, a refuse company in the Tacoma, Washington metro area. He was the owner of one of the largest private automobile collections in the world at the time of his death.
    LeMay was born in Yakima, Washington in 1919. He became a partner in an automotive business just out of high school, and began his Spanaway Garbage Collection Company, which would become Harold LeMay Enterprises, just after World War II. Harold also owned Lucky Towing, HELM Trucking, Lucky Sales & Services, and other companies.
    LeMay amassed the largest privately owned collection of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, and all manner of other vehicles and related memorabilia in the world. At its peak, the LeMay Collection numbered in excess of 3,000 vehicles and thousands of "automobilia" artifacts. The Collection, recognized by many as a national treasure, represents the American experience with the automobile as it spans the 20th century and features virtually every American make, as well as numerous foreign cars. Currently, the bulk of the LeMay Collection is still housed on LeMay property. Some of the vehicles are in the process of being donated to the LeMay Museum in order to be accessible to the public; others are still owned by the LeMay Family and are on display at the LeMay Family Collection at Marymount.
    The LeMay Collection was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1997 as the largest privately owned car collection in the world.
    Each summer until his death in 2000, LeMay, his wife Nancy, and their family would open their estate for the annual LeMay Car Show. This tradition has continued each summer on the last Saturday in August when thousands of visitors have the opportunity to view this vast collection.
    LeMay didn't want his collection broken up and sold off after his death, as happens to many car collections. In 1996, he began talking about opening a non-profit museum that would allow the public to see his collection and keep it all together. He died before this dream could be realized, but his family remembered, and the LeMay -America's Car Museum and, later, The LeMay Family Collection were born.
    Hundreds of LeMay's cars are displayed at The LeMay Family Collection Foundation at Marymount, which opened c 1991 in Tacoma, WA on the site of a former military academy-style school for boys, which had been founded by Dominican nuns in the early 1900s. This historic 80-acre site is just as appealing as the vast car and memorabilia exhibit. Hundreds of Harold LeMay's cars are also displayed at "The LeMay -America's Car Museum" in Tacoma, Washington which opened in June 2012, immediately west of the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma.
    LeMay's wife, Nancy, and son, Doug, are both active members of the Tacoma community. They also share his passion for car collecting, and have continued it after his death.
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