Former Bush family home in Bakersfield to become a museum

[Kadie]

Posted on Tue, Oct. 11, 2005

Former Bush family home in Bakersfield to become a museum

Associated Press


BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The dilapidated little bungalow that briefly housed two future U.S. presidents named Bush more than a half-century ago will be turned into a museum.

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George and Barbara Bush rented the two-bedroom, 950-square-foot white frame house on Monterey Street with their 3-year-old son, George W., while the elder Bush was working as an oil-field equipment salesman.

Kern County officials approved the museum project last month. But some residents of the now heavily Latino neighborhood found it hard to believe that Presidents 41 and 43 lived there for three months in 1949.

"Yeah, right - you're dreaming," said Lupe Fernandez, a real estate broker and mother of six who was dropping off her 1-year-old daughter at her sister's house across the street.

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When the museum opens in 2007, it will feature Bush family photos - including one of little W. on a wooden horse with a cowboy gun - plus items from the oil fields that fueled Bakersfield's boom. A new building in the backyard will house four classrooms for after-school reading programs for local children.

more...
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/12872628.htm

[jaxx]

1. All I can think of is.........who's going to get to haunt the place?

;-)

[shoelace414]

2. It was temporary housing.

[Wickerman]

3. Wow, did the early Mussolini family homes get turned into museums? n/t