December 31, 2007

Where Are My Keys?

This site is in German.. Has a display of numerous keychains. Apparently it's still under construction (it was updated in March 2006).

Virtual Keychain Museum in German
http://www.schluesselanhaenger.de/


I just found a translated version by Google. So if you prefer it in English use the link below. I snipped the url too. Link is way too long. Keep in mind, that the translation is literal.

Virtual Keychain Museum in English
http://snipurl.com/1w6ve


Read this amazing article from KIMT (a tv station from Iowa and Minnesota)about this collector from Honduras, Emerita Soliman, who had at one point had 30,000, before a break in at her museum.

KIMT
http://snipurl.com/1w6sj/


Another article about an amazing collector, Ron Tyler, with pictures of his collection of 42,818 keychains! He is trying set world record, by beating Kurt Meadows, another collector who in 2001 he became the collector with the most keychains. At the time he had 24,810 of them.

There seem to be a conflicts of the dates that Mr. Meadows was registered. I noticed that the KMIT site (it was written in 2004) states that Kurt Meadows was registered with The Guinness Book of World Records in 2003, not 2001 as the Topeka Capital-Journal site states (there is no article date).

Capital Journal
http://www.cjonline.com/attic/commercial.restored/stories/071003/swn_keychains.shtml

So, I went to the 2008 Guinness World Record Book site to see the latest update. Now I see that Brent Dixon was the largest key chain collector with a collection of.. guess what? 41,418 non-duplicate keychains! A bit too many to fit into my pocket! Just kidding. So, I guess Ron Tyler didn't get in, which I find rather interesting. If you look at his figures, you'll see that he has more keychains than Mr. Dixon. Hmm..

Guinness World Records 2008
http://snipurl.com/1w6uo

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