A life-sized diorama displays a tongue-in- cheek view of an adult toy collector’s bedroom.
Stark. The artist who turned the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into action figures has a long history with toys. “At 10, I got a job delivering newspapers so I could buy toys—mostly
G.I. Joes. I talked my parents into letting me turn the basement into my personal playroom. I had all my toys down there and arranged them the way I wanted—sort of a mini-museum,” he says. Stark’s passion was the impetus for the creation of Pauls Valley’s No. 1 attraction. The Toy and Action Figure Museum opened in 2005. Since then the museum has attracted visitors from all 50 states and four-dozen foreign countries.
Exhibits include over 13,000 action figures and toys—toys on shelves, toys on the wall, toys hanging from the ceiling. There are even toys that children can handle. Kids can try on costumes or pose for pictures behind life-sized photos. Not just for kiddies, other exhibits salute artists who draw the charac- ters and sculptors who create action figures. Technical information tells what goes into the actual creation of today’s sophisticated figures. The pièce de résistance is a massive diorama of an adult toy collector’s bedroom. Superheroes and space aliens mingle with puppets and Mr. Potato Head. Explanatory materials read, “It is not quite clear what the toys have done to the occupant of the bedroom, but we are confident that whatever it was, it wasn’t pretty.”
Passion for Pharmacy
The late Ralph Enix purchased a drug store in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, from pioneer pharmacist C.P. Wickmiller. He operated the business for almost 50 years. It was his dream to establish a museum to honor Oklahoma’s earliest pharmacists. The Frontier Drugstore Museum is housed in the 1890 Gaffney Building, once the home of the Lillie Drug Store. Pharmacist F.B Lillie opened his pharmacy on April 22, 1889, and held the first Oklahoma license issued in 1891.
Many of the furnishings in the museum date back to 1889: the rolltop
desk and safe from Dinkler Drug in Hennessey, Oklahoma; wall cases belonging to Randolph Drug, the first black pharmacist-operated drug store in Oklahoma City and a 1920 soda fountain from Cleo Springs, Oklahoma. The shelves and cases are filled with antique medicines and nostrums. It’s a wonder any of our ancestors survived remedies like coal oil for sore muscles, turpentine and sugar for sore throats and asthma cigarettes. Next to the museum is an Apothecary Garden. Visit it to learn about medicinal plants, trees and herbs—or just to enjoy the bubbling fountain and chiming Centennial Clock.
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