The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 21, May 19, 2002, Article 16

HONEY, AT LEAST IT'S NOT LIGHT BULBS

  Every now and then we run a feature some OTHER
  goofy collecting specialty so bibliophiles can tell their
  spouses to be thankful the house isn't filled with
  something worse...

  A May 15, 2002 obituary in The New York Times
  describes Baltimore resident "Dr. Hugh Francis Hicks,
  a dentist whose fascination with light bulbs led to his
  owning 60,000 bulbs.."

  "Dr. Hicks showed off his collection in a museum in
  the basement under his periodontics office. He named
  it the Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting,
  charged no admission and gave visitors, about 6,000 a
  year, cookies.

  Not infrequently, patients had to wait as he welcomed
  people interested in seeing what he identified as the
  biggest and smallest light bulbs in the world ? to say
  nothing of the floodlights used in an Elvis Presley movie
  or the headlamps from Hitler's Mercedes-Benz.

  "Sometimes he left a patient sitting in the chair with the
  peroxide bubbling up in his mouth," his daughter said."

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/15/obituaries/15HICK.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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