Talk:Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

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A fact from Ye Olde Curiosity Shop appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2008, and was viewed approximately 18,921 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester" (pictured), an excellently preserved mummy?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/October.

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http://members.aol.com/since1899/history.html appears to be by someone connected to the shop, but it's an unsigned personal page. It has some interesting info not in the article. I'd like to get someone from the shop to vouch for the page so we can cite it.

That particular page might go away - AOL seems to be getting rid of AOL Hometown - but it's well backed up on the Internet Archive.

Also, I haven't gotten hold of Kate Duncan's 1001 Curious Things, which would clearly be worth a read. - Jmabel | Talk 06:38, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Princess Angeline anachronism

Baskets made by Princess Angeline may have been sold at the shop, but since she died 3 years before it opened, it's highly improbable that she made them for the purpose of selling them there. --Haruo (talk) 17:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Address in 1908

On http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/curtis/id/1603, a 1908 photo by Asahel Curtis, Curtis clearly writes the address as "613 Railroad Ave.", not "813" as we have it. I do not know whether the error is Curtis's or ours. - Jmabel | Talk 22:48, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

McGinty and Sylvester are not the same “petrified men.”

In this article it says that Jeff Smith has posted a photograph indicating that Sylvester and McGinty are one and the same. They look similar, but as Jeff freely admits, they are not identical. Shouldn’t they be? In comparing people, it is important to look at not for the similarities, but for the differences. McGinty came out of the ground with a broken arm; why is that not evident on Sylvester?

Jeff Smith is selling his theory on the fact that both Sylvester and McGinty were in Washington State at the same time in 1895. As he says on his website, what are the odds? They have to be the same.

No, they don’t. It’s called coincidence. 24.237.31.191 (talk) 18:06, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]