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Article: MUSEUM STORE BOASTS ALL THINGS BARBRA Streisand fan gives ultimate tribute
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1996
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People, people who need people maybe those people need a museum,
too, a place where memories light the corners of their minds.
That was about what Ken Joachim thought when he conceived the idea
for what he bills as the world's first store-cum-museum dedicated
solely to Barbra Streisand, a reverently glitzy little shrine in San
Francisco.
It was not an easy concept to sell, from the nay-saying
real-estate agents to the friends who told him one diva does not a
business make.
But "You know that song she sings, `Don't Rain on My Parade'?"
Joachim, 39, asked. "That's the attitude I took about this, and it
took on a life of its own."
Called Hello, Gorgeous!!, after Streisand's classic line ...