9 from the 90s, 8 from the 80s, 7 from the...

What's in YOUR Personality Museum?

Everybody needs space in this world to call their own. There are your man caves, and there are your she-sheds. Home offices and diaries. These places speak to who we are, mostly because usually we're the only people in them (that's the whole point). It's a beautiful thing, and I could go on; but it's Monday., I wanna talk about personality museums.

Ever heard of it? Stop lying, I just made it up the other day. 

Essentially, imagine a curated, super dope museum exhibit, except there aren't any famous paintings or sculptures, just cool stuff you really really like. A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a whole lotta YOU!

Sounds cool, right? Well, that's what I did here. I made a personality museum. took 2 things from the 20s, 3 things from the 30s, and so on and so forth until I got to the 2000s decade.

Close your eyes, and get ready to use your imagination.

Respond to this email with your decade of choice (SAME FORMAT as below), and I'll send a prize to a lucky winner.

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2 THINGS FROM THE 20s

1. The middle “C” key from the first piano at the Cotton Club (1923)

2. Front page of the New York Times the stock market crash of 1929 (1929)

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3 THINGS FROM THE 30s

1. The original transcript of FDR’s 1st-ever Fireside Chat (1933)

2. The congressional signed 21st amendment that ended prohibition (1933)

3. Jesse Owens’ Olympic gold medal (1936)

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4 THINGS FROM THE 40s

1. The license plate from Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina. (1940)

2. The street sign for the first McDonald’s (1940)

3. An original “We Can Do It” poster (1943)

4. Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet (1948)

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5 THINGS FROM THE 50s

1. Stevie Wonder’s birth certificate (1950)

2. A color TV (1951)

3. A 100-play Seeburg M100C jukebox (1952)

4. Marilyn Monroe’s white “Flying Skirt” (1954)

5. An original copy of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son (1955)

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6 THINGS FROM THE 60s

1. The knife from Psycho (1960)

2. The original contract signed when Motown Records got its name (1960)

3. The very first lava lamp (1963)

4. Malcolm X’s “By Any Means Necessary” rifle (1964)

5. A piece of the moon 🌚 (1969)

6. Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock guitar (1969)

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7 THINGS FROM THE 70s

1. The "shift" key from the first personal computer (1970)

2. A piece of hair off of Don Cornelius' afro (1971)

3. Shirley Chisolm's glasses from her presidential campaign (1972)

4. The original vinyl that was scratched and spawned Hip-Hop that night on Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx (1973)

5. Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run ball (1974)

6. A movie ticket from the opening night of Jaws (1975)

7. A Disco Ball from Studio 54 (1978)

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8 THINGS FROM THE 80s

1. An original Sony Walkman TPS-L2 (1980)

2. A Sega Nintendo console (1983)

3. The glitter glove from Michael Jackson’s Motown 25 performance (1983)

4. An MTV pin (1984)

5. First ever game word Jordan 1’s (1985)

6. Basquiat’s final cans of black and yellow spray paint (1988)

7. The original script from Harlem Nights (1989)

8. A piece of the Berlin Wall (1989)

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9 THINGS FROM THE 90s

1. The dollar bill from the cover of Nevermind (1991)

2. The sunglasses Bill Clinton wore when he played the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show (1992)

3. A game-worn Charles Barkley Dream Team jersey (1992)

4. The trampoline from the opening credits of All That (1994)

5. The briefcase from Pulp Fiction (1994)

6. Selena’s maroon romper (1995)

7. The boxes Ezal stole in the opening scene of Friday (1995)

8. The microphone from the 1995 Source Awards (1995)

9. Tiger Woods’ red 30-button shirt from the Sunday he won his first Masters (1997)

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10 THINGS FROM THE 00s

1. The game ball Kobe threw the alley-oop to Shaq with in Game 7 of the NBA Western Conference finals (2000)

2. The Sidekick the Kelly Rowland was texting Nelly on in the “Dilemma” video (2002)

3. One of Nick Cannon’s drumsticks from Drumline (2002)

4. A copy of NBA Street Vol.2 (2003)

5. One of Outkast’s 3 Grammy’s from the 46th Annual awards (2004)

6. The mascot head from the College Dropout album cover (2004)

7. A Foot Locker XXL Tall white tee (2005)

8. An “R.I.P. Pluto” shirt (2006)

9. An original iPhone (2007)

10. Barack Obama’s campaign poster (2008)

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For Lack of a Wetter Bird, what’s in your personality museum?