July 7, 2025 • 17 mins
On this episode of Our American Stories, Richard Larrison runs a Western store in Diamond, Missouri. But behind it? A one-of-a-kind museum with 8,000 vintage electrical appliances. Here's the story of how one man turned his love of vintage toasters and waffle irons into one of the most unusual museums in America!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories,
the show where America is the star and the American people.
To search for the American Stories podcast, go to the
iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. There's an
old saying that one man's garbage is another's treasure. For
Richard Larimore of Diamond, Missouri, that saying rings especially true.
(00:33):
What started as a favor for a brother in law
morphed into something much much bigger, the world's largest small
electric appliance museum. Here's Richard with his story.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, it was I thought in my mind back then
it was the last Frontier. My brother in law in
California was collecting old black fans. You've seen those black,
ugly fans. Well, he called me up one day and said, Richard,
he said, you know you're out there in Missouri. Why
(01:06):
don't you start looking for these fans for me? I said, okay,
So we like to travel because I don't drink, or
drive or smoke any of that kind of stuff. So
we started looking at and I got interested in the fans.
I had about one hundred of them. But then again,
you see one black fan, you've seen them all and
they were getting harder and harder to find, and when
(01:28):
they were they were double once you started out paying.
So I called in us brother in law, and I
asked him. I said, Dennis, I said, when you're traveling
and you can't find your fan, what do you collect
electric toasters? I said, what? Electric toasters? And I didn't
realize he was trying to a corner of the market.
(01:51):
On the newer version toaster you pulled down and it toasted,
it pops up. He thought he could buy them all
up and make lots of money. Well he found out
he couldn't. But I started looking. I didn't know what
he was clicked, but I seen a toaster and seen
it all one. I bought it. And then I really
made a mistake. I bought a book on toasters. They
(02:15):
make porcelain toasters. Holy cat, I gotta find one of those,
and we drove the wheels off of the car looking
for a porcelain toaster. Now I've got a big collection
of them, but that's kind of how I got started
on the toasters. And then, holy cal, look at this.
Well here's a coffee pot. It's same brand, and it
(02:36):
looks got the same markings and the toaster, so I
bought that. I thought that'd be nice to just play
him together. And then pretty soon my brain went crazy
if I did if it was small and electric and
I didn't have it, I had to have it. So
I started buying it all and that was in a
(03:01):
big mistake. If I had to do it all over.
It costs so much. People don't realize what it costs
to run a museum like this. If I paid you
a dollar apiece to clean those toasters and c it
would cost me. I got about eight thousand, so that'd
be eight thousand dollars, and you can't hire Nobody wants
(03:21):
to work anymore. They can't see you can't hire 'em.
I've cleaned those, I'll bet you i've three times. I've
completely cleaned everything in there. But anyway, that's basically how
I got started. But I started in my pagement. You
couldn't walk down there, you'd have to watch it. Don't
(03:44):
step on this one, move around here. And then have
you heard of gathering of the artists I have in
in Miyosho, Well, Lowell, Davis, Bob, Tommy and a bunch
of them got together and every year they would have
a show and they would show their paintings and so forth,
(04:04):
and they would sell it. One day I went there
to see their artwork and talk to them, and I said, hey,
I said, what are you guys doing Friday night? Because
I knew they were in town from Texas and all
over the country and Martha Spurlock, super super good artist.
I said, Martha, I said, what are you guys doing
(04:25):
Friday night? She says, well, I don't know far as
I know nothing. I said, how would you like to
come out to the house and see my collection of
electric appliances. I said, we can have coffee and whatever
my wife wants to bake or cook. She said okay.
So sure enough, that night they all come up to
(04:47):
the house and they came in and we talked a
little bit. I said, come on down the basement. I'll
show you my appliances. Anyway, we went down, we looked
at it, and I could see they were interested pretty
good to begin with, but you can tell when people
get tired. And they said, well, so I says, hey,
come on, let's go upstairs. I think Janis has probably
(05:07):
got coffee and and a cake or something ready for us. Okay,
and all the other people went upstairs, and I just
made one step on the stairway and Doug grabbed me.
I s said, Richard, I got something to say to you.
(05:27):
I said, I was trying to think what I said?
What Doug? So I stepped back and got the talking
And if I I shouldn't say what he said, but
you'll get the drift of it. Or can I say
what he said? He he said, you know when you
invited us out to see this collection, he said, I
(05:50):
told every buddy, what a bunch of bs, what a
waste of a good evening, come out and see this crap.
I said, Oh, but he says, ma, he says, am
I impressed. He says, I can't believe this collection you've
got down here. He said, this is fair. Oh, You've
got the prettiest appliances I've seen in a long time.
(06:12):
But he says, I got another problem. And I said, oh,
now what, Doug? He says, you know what's wrong with this?
I said what he said, as nice as collection have
you've got, it's a crime that only very few people
can see it. You need to have it where everybody
(06:33):
can see it. Because he said, man, I've never seen
any of this. He said, I've been all over the
United States, and he says, this is absolutely fantastic. So
when we walked upstairs, you know, I got thinking, you know,
he's right, because I only show people that's my friends
and so forth seen it. So I thought, well, how
could I do this so more people could see it. Well,
(06:57):
I had the Western Store, and I thought I could
add on to the Western Store, and I can have
a museum.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And you're listening to one unique American voice, Richard Larimore's voice,
his story. The world's largest small electrical appliance museum is
his achievement. More of his story here on Our American Stories.
(07:32):
Liehabibe here the host of Our American Stories. Every day
on this show, we're bringing inspiring stories from across this
great country, stories from our big cities and small towns.
But we truly can't do the show without you. If
you love what you hear, go to Ouramericanstories dot com
and click the donate button. Give a little, give a lot.
(07:53):
Go to Ouramerican Stories dot com and give And we
returned to our American Stories and Richard Larimore, the founder
and curator of the world's largest small electric appliance museum
(08:18):
in Diamond Missouri. When we last left off, Richard was
telling us about how what started in his basement morphed
into a full fledged museum. Let's continue with the story
here again is Richard Larimore.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Everything I've got back there ninety nine percent. I might
have one or two things, so all us products. Back
then we had manufacturers. We don't have them anymore. And
another funny thing, and we probably didn't think of this.
They never had computers, they never had smart cell phones.
(08:54):
Everything come from their head. How am I going to
do this? I need to make a toaster and I
can't make it like the ones. That's sorry, they're so
I've got to change it. Because they had about a
dollar a patent fee or something, so they'd change it.
These inventors kept coming out with new products because the
(09:16):
people never had those before. So boom, that's brand new.
I got to have that. They might not have never
used it, but it's different. There's Percher toasters. You just
put it in, it sets on the top and it cooks.
You got floppers that flop the toast over, you got
swingers that swing around, and the manufacturers. I think this
(09:40):
is my own personal feeling. If that toaster could do
more than one thing, then you can have two different
type of people. They might need this, they could buy
it for that, or they could have a toaster. So
I would love to talk to some of those inventors.
And some of the stuff they invented was so stupid
(10:03):
and dumb, but I'm glad they did because I love
talking about stupid and dumb stuff. Well, somewhere, I've got
a toaster that is also a heater. Can you have you? Yeah,
your heaters get all the dirt and the crud. Can
you imagine having a toaster? Like I say, it's dumb,
(10:25):
but I'm glad they did. It gives me. I love
to talk about the stuff that's so different. I've got
one back there, one of the I've got a lot.
I've probably got forty or more one of a kind toasters,
coffee pots, I've got a waffle iron. They had the
old drive in movies. Well, they turned into a flea
(10:46):
market on weekends and I went there and I've seen
this waffle iron and I thought, boy, that sucker is
brand new. I don't want to buy that. I want
old stuff. Well, I kept thinking about and I thought,
you know that was in mint conditions. I gotta buy it.
So I bought it, and it came this original box,
(11:09):
which was nothing. It was just playing cardboard box. Brought
it home and had a guy come through the museum once.
He said, Oh, he says, I see you got a
rare waffle iron. I said I have. He says, how
that one right there? He says, you've got to be joking. No,
he says, that's rare one. I said, how come? Then
(11:30):
he told me the story. It was made out of
pot aluminum and when you plugged it in and it
heated up, if you forgot to turn it off, it
would completely melt fall apart, or it would start a fire.
So they quit manufacturing it. You're not gonna plug it
(11:51):
in if it's gonna start fire, or forget about it.
And that's another thing with the old appliances when they made.
If if they had the same kind of laws back
then as they had the day, we wouldn't have none
of that. Because if your little boy burnt his hand
on a toaster, oh that's unsafe. Well you can't make
(12:13):
that anymore. So back then they educated their kids, don't
touch that kids hot god Ooh you're right, dad, And
you only did that once tell me what this is.
I was just about to say, don't say what you
think it is. If I would have got a dollar
(12:35):
for every time somebody said a hair dry, i'd be rich.
That's what everybody. And now let me tell you the story.
There's nothing one of those stories. I bought this in
your e Springs and I seen it on the shelf
and I walked up and a guy behind the counter,
Sir said what I says. You know, I'm not the
smartest man in the country, but I don't think i'm
(12:55):
dumb either. How does that hair dry with the holes
in the sidework? He starts laughing. He says, we got
no hair dry with holes in the side. Oh damn,
dumb cand of guy get running the place rolling them.
Don't even realize he's got one like that. And then
he looked up and seen that. He starts laughing, and
he reached in his drawer and I've got the patent
(13:17):
somewhere and he pulled that here read it. I ur
narrow have invented this man's man's face steamer to take
place at the hot towels that they would drop around
their head before they would shave him. Very very rare
and what really scares me right now, God forbid that
(13:42):
if anything ever happened, had a tornado, and that tornado
just missed this place. You know, if a tornado took
that out, you can't replace that what I've got back there.
I'm proud to say that, but it scares of you
know what out of me that tornado would take get away.
You can't find that stuff anymore. I'm still looking for
(14:05):
things I don't have, but there's not too many out there.
We drove. Oh, I've been driving all of it. I
love looking. I'm a hunter. I go in there, Oh,
I don't have this, look at that. I spent thousands
of dollars on eBay and I had a good friend
of mine. He was a multi millionaire. In fact, we
(14:29):
used to know his name. He had forty patents. I'm
not sure whether it's medical or whatever. But he was
a smart foreign guy. And the only way I could
outbid him on eBay if I wanted to bid on that,
and I thought, okay, that's worth a hundred dollars, I
(14:51):
had to be in a hundred and fifty or two
hundred dollars in order to get it, because I knew
he was bidding on it. I met him one day
before he passed away, and I said, you know, you
rotten sucker. He looks at me and I says, you
cost me lots of money, and he just yeah, I
know it. It was a game with him. But I
(15:12):
wanted from my museum, and he had a museum. It
wasn't any good. I shouldn't say it wasn't. He really
small and it was never open. You had to get
an appointment there. He might have had a hundred different
items in there. And I love what I'm doing. I
spent half of my life collecting that stuff back there.
(15:35):
Younger people nowadays, if it's not a cell phone, they're
not interest. But I'm surprised that some of the young
people that come in here. That's a toaster, how does
that work? That's a want a coffee? Well that's cool. Yeah.
Some of the young people asked better questions. And I
figured just the old people like myself, the young ones.
(15:58):
I had three boys coming here and they were.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Up seventeen eighteen, and I thought, oh, this is gonna
be fun, cause I can usually spot people that might
be interested and I like showing people that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And they asked so many questions, and the one YOUNGNG
guy says, boy, he says, I can't believe how pretty
some of this stuff is. And I looked at him,
I says, I figured what I call him, sir? I said,
just stop and think. Everybody loves something that's pretty. I says,
(16:35):
when you're looking for a girlfriend, are you going out
trying to find an ugly one? No, you're looking for
a pretty girlfriend. And they really got a bang now
that and and it's they give me the best donations
of anybody who's ever come through there. I could not
believe it because they were so excited about that's what
(16:56):
going on. They had tons of questions. But when I
I told him that, he thought, I said, okay, your
girlfriend nushi ugby? No, I said, there you go. You
like pretty stuff. That's why this museum is different. Everything
back there has its own pretty understood.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And a special thanks to Katrina Hein and Jim Watkins
and Monty Montgomery for all the fine work putting that
story together. What at the Light Richard Larimore the world's
largest small electrical appliance museum in Diamond, Missouri. If it
was small and electric, I had to have it, he said.
We drove the wheels off a car searching for a
(17:39):
porcelain toaster. I love what I'm doing, and so many
Americans have these hobbies. Richard Larimore's hobby the world's largest
small electrical appliance museum. The story of that museum here
in our American Stories
This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories,
the show where America is the star and the American people.
To search for the American Stories podcast, go to the
iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. There's an
old saying that one man's garbage is another's treasure. For
Richard Larimore of Diamond, Missouri, that saying rings especially true.
(00:33):
What started as a favor for a brother in law
morphed into something much much bigger, the world's largest small
electric appliance museum. Here's Richard with his story.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, it was I thought in my mind back then
it was the last Frontier. My brother in law in
California was collecting old black fans. You've seen those black,
ugly fans. Well, he called me up one day and said, Richard,
he said, you know you're out there in Missouri. Why
(01:06):
don't you start looking for these fans for me? I said, okay,
So we like to travel because I don't drink, or
drive or smoke any of that kind of stuff. So
we started looking at and I got interested in the fans.
I had about one hundred of them. But then again,
you see one black fan, you've seen them all and
they were getting harder and harder to find, and when
(01:28):
they were they were double once you started out paying.
So I called in us brother in law, and I
asked him. I said, Dennis, I said, when you're traveling
and you can't find your fan, what do you collect
electric toasters? I said, what? Electric toasters? And I didn't
realize he was trying to a corner of the market.
(01:51):
On the newer version toaster you pulled down and it toasted,
it pops up. He thought he could buy them all
up and make lots of money. Well he found out
he couldn't. But I started looking. I didn't know what
he was clicked, but I seen a toaster and seen
it all one. I bought it. And then I really
made a mistake. I bought a book on toasters. They
(02:15):
make porcelain toasters. Holy cat, I gotta find one of those,
and we drove the wheels off of the car looking
for a porcelain toaster. Now I've got a big collection
of them, but that's kind of how I got started
on the toasters. And then, holy cal, look at this.
Well here's a coffee pot. It's same brand, and it
(02:36):
looks got the same markings and the toaster, so I
bought that. I thought that'd be nice to just play
him together. And then pretty soon my brain went crazy
if I did if it was small and electric and
I didn't have it, I had to have it. So
I started buying it all and that was in a
(03:01):
big mistake. If I had to do it all over.
It costs so much. People don't realize what it costs
to run a museum like this. If I paid you
a dollar apiece to clean those toasters and c it
would cost me. I got about eight thousand, so that'd
be eight thousand dollars, and you can't hire Nobody wants
(03:21):
to work anymore. They can't see you can't hire 'em.
I've cleaned those, I'll bet you i've three times. I've
completely cleaned everything in there. But anyway, that's basically how
I got started. But I started in my pagement. You
couldn't walk down there, you'd have to watch it. Don't
(03:44):
step on this one, move around here. And then have
you heard of gathering of the artists I have in
in Miyosho, Well, Lowell, Davis, Bob, Tommy and a bunch
of them got together and every year they would have
a show and they would show their paintings and so forth,
(04:04):
and they would sell it. One day I went there
to see their artwork and talk to them, and I said, hey,
I said, what are you guys doing Friday night? Because
I knew they were in town from Texas and all
over the country and Martha Spurlock, super super good artist.
I said, Martha, I said, what are you guys doing
(04:25):
Friday night? She says, well, I don't know far as
I know nothing. I said, how would you like to
come out to the house and see my collection of
electric appliances. I said, we can have coffee and whatever
my wife wants to bake or cook. She said okay.
So sure enough, that night they all come up to
(04:47):
the house and they came in and we talked a
little bit. I said, come on down the basement. I'll
show you my appliances. Anyway, we went down, we looked
at it, and I could see they were interested pretty
good to begin with, but you can tell when people
get tired. And they said, well, so I says, hey,
come on, let's go upstairs. I think Janis has probably
(05:07):
got coffee and and a cake or something ready for us. Okay,
and all the other people went upstairs, and I just
made one step on the stairway and Doug grabbed me.
I s said, Richard, I got something to say to you.
(05:27):
I said, I was trying to think what I said?
What Doug? So I stepped back and got the talking
And if I I shouldn't say what he said, but
you'll get the drift of it. Or can I say
what he said? He he said, you know when you
invited us out to see this collection, he said, I
(05:50):
told every buddy, what a bunch of bs, what a
waste of a good evening, come out and see this crap.
I said, Oh, but he says, ma, he says, am
I impressed. He says, I can't believe this collection you've
got down here. He said, this is fair. Oh, You've
got the prettiest appliances I've seen in a long time.
(06:12):
But he says, I got another problem. And I said, oh,
now what, Doug? He says, you know what's wrong with this?
I said what he said, as nice as collection have
you've got, it's a crime that only very few people
can see it. You need to have it where everybody
(06:33):
can see it. Because he said, man, I've never seen
any of this. He said, I've been all over the
United States, and he says, this is absolutely fantastic. So
when we walked upstairs, you know, I got thinking, you know,
he's right, because I only show people that's my friends
and so forth seen it. So I thought, well, how
could I do this so more people could see it. Well,
(06:57):
I had the Western Store, and I thought I could
add on to the Western Store, and I can have
a museum.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And you're listening to one unique American voice, Richard Larimore's voice,
his story. The world's largest small electrical appliance museum is
his achievement. More of his story here on Our American Stories.
(07:32):
Liehabibe here the host of Our American Stories. Every day
on this show, we're bringing inspiring stories from across this
great country, stories from our big cities and small towns.
But we truly can't do the show without you. If
you love what you hear, go to Ouramericanstories dot com
and click the donate button. Give a little, give a lot.
(07:53):
Go to Ouramerican Stories dot com and give And we
returned to our American Stories and Richard Larimore, the founder
and curator of the world's largest small electric appliance museum
(08:18):
in Diamond Missouri. When we last left off, Richard was
telling us about how what started in his basement morphed
into a full fledged museum. Let's continue with the story
here again is Richard Larimore.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Everything I've got back there ninety nine percent. I might
have one or two things, so all us products. Back
then we had manufacturers. We don't have them anymore. And
another funny thing, and we probably didn't think of this.
They never had computers, they never had smart cell phones.
(08:54):
Everything come from their head. How am I going to
do this? I need to make a toaster and I
can't make it like the ones. That's sorry, they're so
I've got to change it. Because they had about a
dollar a patent fee or something, so they'd change it.
These inventors kept coming out with new products because the
(09:16):
people never had those before. So boom, that's brand new.
I got to have that. They might not have never
used it, but it's different. There's Percher toasters. You just
put it in, it sets on the top and it cooks.
You got floppers that flop the toast over, you got
swingers that swing around, and the manufacturers. I think this
(09:40):
is my own personal feeling. If that toaster could do
more than one thing, then you can have two different
type of people. They might need this, they could buy
it for that, or they could have a toaster. So
I would love to talk to some of those inventors.
And some of the stuff they invented was so stupid
(10:03):
and dumb, but I'm glad they did because I love
talking about stupid and dumb stuff. Well, somewhere, I've got
a toaster that is also a heater. Can you have you? Yeah,
your heaters get all the dirt and the crud. Can
you imagine having a toaster? Like I say, it's dumb,
(10:25):
but I'm glad they did. It gives me. I love
to talk about the stuff that's so different. I've got
one back there, one of the I've got a lot.
I've probably got forty or more one of a kind toasters,
coffee pots, I've got a waffle iron. They had the
old drive in movies. Well, they turned into a flea
(10:46):
market on weekends and I went there and I've seen
this waffle iron and I thought, boy, that sucker is
brand new. I don't want to buy that. I want
old stuff. Well, I kept thinking about and I thought,
you know that was in mint conditions. I gotta buy it.
So I bought it, and it came this original box,
(11:09):
which was nothing. It was just playing cardboard box. Brought
it home and had a guy come through the museum once.
He said, Oh, he says, I see you got a
rare waffle iron. I said I have. He says, how
that one right there? He says, you've got to be joking. No,
he says, that's rare one. I said, how come? Then
(11:30):
he told me the story. It was made out of
pot aluminum and when you plugged it in and it
heated up, if you forgot to turn it off, it
would completely melt fall apart, or it would start a fire.
So they quit manufacturing it. You're not gonna plug it
(11:51):
in if it's gonna start fire, or forget about it.
And that's another thing with the old appliances when they made.
If if they had the same kind of laws back
then as they had the day, we wouldn't have none
of that. Because if your little boy burnt his hand
on a toaster, oh that's unsafe. Well you can't make
(12:13):
that anymore. So back then they educated their kids, don't
touch that kids hot god Ooh you're right, dad, And
you only did that once tell me what this is.
I was just about to say, don't say what you
think it is. If I would have got a dollar
(12:35):
for every time somebody said a hair dry, i'd be rich.
That's what everybody. And now let me tell you the story.
There's nothing one of those stories. I bought this in
your e Springs and I seen it on the shelf
and I walked up and a guy behind the counter,
Sir said what I says. You know, I'm not the
smartest man in the country, but I don't think i'm
(12:55):
dumb either. How does that hair dry with the holes
in the sidework? He starts laughing. He says, we got
no hair dry with holes in the side. Oh damn,
dumb cand of guy get running the place rolling them.
Don't even realize he's got one like that. And then
he looked up and seen that. He starts laughing, and
he reached in his drawer and I've got the patent
(13:17):
somewhere and he pulled that here read it. I ur
narrow have invented this man's man's face steamer to take
place at the hot towels that they would drop around
their head before they would shave him. Very very rare
and what really scares me right now, God forbid that
(13:42):
if anything ever happened, had a tornado, and that tornado
just missed this place. You know, if a tornado took
that out, you can't replace that what I've got back there.
I'm proud to say that, but it scares of you
know what out of me that tornado would take get away.
You can't find that stuff anymore. I'm still looking for
(14:05):
things I don't have, but there's not too many out there.
We drove. Oh, I've been driving all of it. I
love looking. I'm a hunter. I go in there, Oh,
I don't have this, look at that. I spent thousands
of dollars on eBay and I had a good friend
of mine. He was a multi millionaire. In fact, we
(14:29):
used to know his name. He had forty patents. I'm
not sure whether it's medical or whatever. But he was
a smart foreign guy. And the only way I could
outbid him on eBay if I wanted to bid on that,
and I thought, okay, that's worth a hundred dollars, I
(14:51):
had to be in a hundred and fifty or two
hundred dollars in order to get it, because I knew
he was bidding on it. I met him one day
before he passed away, and I said, you know, you
rotten sucker. He looks at me and I says, you
cost me lots of money, and he just yeah, I
know it. It was a game with him. But I
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wanted from my museum, and he had a museum. It
wasn't any good. I shouldn't say it wasn't. He really
small and it was never open. You had to get
an appointment there. He might have had a hundred different
items in there. And I love what I'm doing. I
spent half of my life collecting that stuff back there.
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Younger people nowadays, if it's not a cell phone, they're
not interest. But I'm surprised that some of the young
people that come in here. That's a toaster, how does
that work? That's a want a coffee? Well that's cool. Yeah.
Some of the young people asked better questions. And I
figured just the old people like myself, the young ones.
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I had three boys coming here and they were.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Up seventeen eighteen, and I thought, oh, this is gonna
be fun, cause I can usually spot people that might
be interested and I like showing people that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And they asked so many questions, and the one YOUNGNG
guy says, boy, he says, I can't believe how pretty
some of this stuff is. And I looked at him,
I says, I figured what I call him, sir? I said,
just stop and think. Everybody loves something that's pretty. I says,
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when you're looking for a girlfriend, are you going out
trying to find an ugly one? No, you're looking for
a pretty girlfriend. And they really got a bang now
that and and it's they give me the best donations
of anybody who's ever come through there. I could not
believe it because they were so excited about that's what
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going on. They had tons of questions. But when I
I told him that, he thought, I said, okay, your
girlfriend nushi ugby? No, I said, there you go. You
like pretty stuff. That's why this museum is different. Everything
back there has its own pretty understood.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And a special thanks to Katrina Hein and Jim Watkins
and Monty Montgomery for all the fine work putting that
story together. What at the Light Richard Larimore the world's
largest small electrical appliance museum in Diamond, Missouri. If it
was small and electric, I had to have it, he said.
We drove the wheels off a car searching for a
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porcelain toaster. I love what I'm doing, and so many
Americans have these hobbies. Richard Larimore's hobby the world's largest
small electrical appliance museum. The story of that museum here
in our American Stories
Host
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