Boeing St. Louis "Prologue Room" open to the public

[bdk]

Prologue Room in St. Louis open to the public for the Summer

Location: Bldg 100

Museum is open to the public for self-guided tours with kiosks showing short videos of the many heritage products that made history. Guided tours offered for organized groups of 10 or more by reservation only. See full-size space capsules, missiles and Scan Eagle also--hundreds of scale model airplanes spanning nearly a century of technological evolution; 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mon-Fri until Aug. 31.

http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/ab ... logueroom/

[The Inspector]

I've always admired Boeing's strong efforts to preserve and praise the accomplishments of those companies who have come under the Boeing tent over the years and not throw dirt on history. Unlike some who went to the historical section of the recently acquired XYZ airplane store and pitched every piece of history of the 'conquered' company into the Dumpster (more than one place on Long Island comes to mind), when McD, and Rockwell among others were incorporated Boeing published ads in the papers soliciting retired employees, and anyone with historical information to please submit it to Boeing's Historical Dept. for inclusion in the company archives, on the solemn promise that it would all be treated like gold and promptly returned to the contributor, far as I know they've kept their promise. Since I don't see FRONTIERS magazine (the house monthly organ) any more, I will assume that they still publish features revolving around a DOUGLAS, or North American historical accomplishment from the past including photos in the center of each issue.

[Pat Carry]

The next time I am in St Louis, I will have to check this out. It looks pretty kool!

[JohnB]

The Boeing Stores do a good job acknowleging the other firms...selling Tshirts and models of Douglas and North American products.

Too bad they only sell the the cheesy Asian wood models of warbirds (they do sell some expensive resin airliners).
How hard would it be to get Precise (they were still in business in the 90s (you could stil get a Topping C-130 desk model from the Lockheed employee store) or Allyn to to make a few "real" manufacturer desk models?