Episode 12: Holiday Edition: Our Favorite Things
It’s the holidays, which often means spending time with family — and maybe growing a collection or two at the same time! So, for this month’s episode,...
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Collecting Culture is a podcast about passionate collectors and the objects they love. Each month we talk to a collector in the realm of art, design, history or nostalgia.
Episode 11: Galloping Ghost: an Epic Arcade Game Collection
Since 2010 Doc Mack has been the operator of Galloping Ghost Arcade, an old school arcade in Brookfield, Illinois, outside of Chicago. It’s the world’...
Bonus Episode! Actors Read Old Love Letters!
Earlier this month, we released episode 10, “The Mysteries of Old Letters,” which was an interview with collector Hallie Bahn, who collects letters wr...
Episode 10: The Mysteries of Old Letters
Hallie Bahn collects old letters, and she has more than 200 individual missives in her collection. Oftentimes, she has a packet of letters that are al...
Episode 9: Fall Fashion: Exploring Designer Bonnie Cashin’s Archive
As a graduate student in the ‘90s, Stephanie Lake became friends with the legendary fashion designer Bonnie Cashin, who is known as “the mother of Ame...
Episode 8: Building the Perfect Railroad, LEGO Brick by Brick…
Monty Smith is a musician and a rail fan. His fascination with trains started at 14 months old! He collects many different types of trains, and his pr...
Episode 7: Salty Salt & Pepper Shakers! (NSFW)
Susie Frank is a collector of novelty salt and pepper shakers. Susie is an interior designer and a fine art photographer in Pasadena, California. She ...
Episode 6: Don’t Mess with Texas Art
For the past 25 years, Tam Keihnhoff has collected “early Texas art”—which is not exactly what it sounds like. It’s art made by an artist who was born...
Episode 5: Why ’70s Quilts Matter
Our guest this month is Bill Volckening, quilt collector and author. Bill owns more than 400 quilts, from all different periods of American quilt hist...
Episode 4: Big Mac: One Man’s Obsession With Vintage Apple Computers
Adam Rosen is an Apple Consultant and has an impressive collection of over 100 Macintosh computers, period-specific software and Apple nostalgia. He i...