1960's 'Jurassic' Park Lives On

An Oregon woman vows she won’t let her family’s 62-year old dinosaur-themed roadside attraction go extinct.

“A lot of visitors tell me it’s magical,” said Kiki McGrath, who inherited Prehistoric Gardens in Port Orford in 1999. “I hear that all the time-- there’s a magical something out there.”

The park, located off the Pacific Coast Highway, is the creation of McGrath’s grandfather, Ernie Nelson, a frustrated accountant who dreamed of being an artist.

“He wanted to create something and share it with everybody,” said McGrath, whose family is featured on Strange Inheritance with Jamie Colby. The episode premieres Monday, January 30 at 9:30 p.m. ET on Fox Business Network.

As a child in Minnesota, Nelson loved to draw dinosaurs. After getting married during the Great Depression, he chose the stability of an accounting career. He once got an offer to be a cartoonist at Walt Disney Studios -- then talked himself out of it.

“He had two children, so he decided he just couldn’t pick up and leave,” Nelson’s daughter Bennii told Colby.

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Bead-Collecting Flight Attendant Leaves Dazzling Inheritance

A Pan Am stewardess’ penchant for bringing home tiny souvenirs has made her heirs a bundle.

Naomi Lindstrom began flying for the now defunct Pan American World Airways in 1952. She travelled the globe for 40 years, spanning the golden age of air travel of the 60s and 70s.

During layovers – while her colleagues rested by the pool – Lindstrom immersed herself in the local culture. That led to a lifelong hobby: Collecting tiny beads from the hundreds of places she visited.

“She liked the fact that beads put you in touch with the culture that you admire or are interested in,” recalled Lindstrom’s friend Jamey Allen. “They are mankind’s oldest portable art form.”

Some of the trinkets Lindstrom collected date from the third millennium B.C., which she got from archaeological sites she toured, said her sister Carol Mousel.

“At that particular time, the archeologists weren’t interested in beads, and for $10 she could get a lot of them,” explained Mousel, who inherited Lindstrom’s collection when she died in 2014 at age 90.

Bead-Collecting Flight Attendant Leaves Dazzling Inheritance

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	1960's 'Jurassic' Park Lives On An Oregon woman vows she won’t let her family’s 62-year old dinosaur-themed roadside attraction go extinct. “A lot of visitors tell me it’s magical,” said Kiki McGrath, who inherited Prehistoric Gardens in Port Orford in 1999. “I hear that all the time-- there’s a magical something out there.” The park, located off the Pacific Coast Highway, is the creation of McGrath’s grandfather, Ernie Nelson, a frustrated accountant who dreamed of being an artist. “He wanted to create something and share it with everybody,” said McGrath, whose family is featured on Strange Inheritance with Jamie Colby. The episode premieres Monday, January 30 at 9:30 p.m. ET on Fox Business Network. As a child in Minnesota, Nelson loved to draw dinosaurs. After getting married during the Great Depression, he chose the stability of an accounting career. He once got an offer to be a cartoonist at Walt Disney Studios -- then talked himself out of it. Expand / Contract “He had two children, so he decided he just couldn’t pick up and leave,” Nelson’s daughter Bennii told Colby. 1960's 'Jurassic' Park Lives On http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/29/1960s-jurassic-park-lives-on.html
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	Bead-Collecting Flight Attendant Leaves Dazzling Inheritance A Pan Am stewardess’ penchant for bringing home tiny souvenirs has made her heirs a bundle. Naomi Lindstrom began flying for the now defunct Pan American World Airways in 1952. She travelled the globe for 40 years, spanning the golden age of air travel of the 60s and 70s. During layovers – while her colleagues rested by the pool – Lindstrom immersed herself in the local culture. That led to a lifelong hobby: Collecting tiny beads from the hundreds of places she visited. “She liked the fact that beads put you in touch with the culture that you admire or are interested in,” recalled Lindstrom’s friend Jamey Allen. “They are mankind’s oldest portable art form.” Some of the trinkets Lindstrom collected date from the third millennium B.C., which she got from archaeological sites she toured, said her sister Carol Mousel. “At that particular time, the archeologists weren’t interested in beads, and for $10 she could get a lot of them,” explained Mousel, who inherited Lindstrom’s collection when she died in 2014 at age 90. Bead-Collecting Flight Attendant Leaves Dazzling Inheritance http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/23/bead-collecting-flight-attendant-leaves-dazzling-inheritance.html
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