LeMay - America's Car Museum in Tacoma
First published in 2015
Tacoma is a city south of Seattle and most probably better known by the Sea-Tac (=Seattle Tacoma) international airport. During our visit to Seattle, we went there to see America's Car Museum.
The Museum opened in 2012 and most of the cars you can find there are donated by the family of Harold LeMay. Harold was an enthusiastic collector and the LeMay Family Collection Foundation still has so many cars that most of them are stored or on exhibition in other places.
Standing in front of the museum you might think that this is just a hangar good enough for some 20 cars, but what you see is just the above-ground part. The vast majority is below the surface. You walk down the ramps just as if you’re in a parking lot and all ramps are packed with cars. They have more than 300 on exhibition, plus motorbikes, trucks etc etc.
Of course, they have other automotive stuff as well. From panels showing the history of, for example, Route 66 to license plates and gas pumps. The best of that stuff was a promotion video from the early 60s showing the future of driving - great.
