Thank you, Ripley! Loved this experience Highly recommend this place. I would definitely recommend this museum for teenagers who get easily bored at museums that aren't interactive.
This is a cool place to come with kids and show them some cool world records Add to cart. Tickets can be redeemed any day and time and are valid for 60 days from the time of purchase. He and his equally astute partner, Dick Simon, had teamed up in to publish the first-ever book of crossword puzzles.
First introduced by the New York World, in , crossword puzzles had become popular features in many papers. With only a shared secretary between them, the two men created their own company, Simon and Schuster, to publish The Cross-Word Puzzle Book —with a cute little pencil attached—and it became an instant best-seller. Within a year, the duo published three more crossword-puzzle books and sold more than a million of them, eventually establishing the firm as a serious publishing house.
Now Max Schuster wanted Ripley to put a collection of cartoons, essays, and sketches between hard covers. Schuster had been cultivating Ripley for years.
In time, Ripley realized that a book might be the perfect place to use his backlog of material, and he signed on. A company called Famous Speakers, Inc. He was soon being wooed by radio networks looking for ways to capture the Believe It or Not magic on the airwaves. After Hearst read it, he sent a wire to one of his editors in New York. Success bred more success.
He was earning more than any cartoonist in the business. Ripley would create more Odditoriums, including a Times Square flagship, precursors to the scores of Believe It or Not museums now operating around the world.
Ripley now had the means to live wherever and however he wished. He chose the town of Mamaroneck, just north of New York City, and bought an island for himself. To reach the island, Ripley had to cross a tight stone causeway leading out to three acres of lawns, gardens, tall pine trees, rocky outcroppings, and swampy marshes.
Scattered across three stories were bedrooms, sitting rooms, a solarium, a dark room, a steam room, and a gymnasium. In time, the island would become his personal Odditorium, more museum than house and surely one of the most bizarre dwellings in America.
At first, it was an absolute mess, the rooms cluttered with javelins, mastodon and elephant tusks, boomerangs, skeletons, and war drums. Turkish and Oriental rugs rose high in piles. The garage held wooden statues and carvings, python skins and stuffed animals. Outside of his Bion Island home on one of his annual Christmas cards. By the mids, Ripley was living on the island full-time. He was now one of the most well-known men in America, and among the most eligible of bachelors.
McIntyre wrote in the New York American. Ever dapper, he wore bespoke tailor-made suits accessorized with bright-colored shirts, bow ties, and two-tone shoes. He dated writers and starlets, a Chinese ballerina, and a Japanese actress. Women came to work as secretaries or housekeepers, then stayed on as live-in lovers. Oakie offered to help organize the messy contents of his new mansion and spent many days and nights in Mamaroneck, hiring domestic help while arranging the antiques and artwork.
With his various collections now on display, he loved to show off his estate to guests. With Hitler stirring up conflict in Europe, it was not an ideal time for overseas passenger travel so he scaled back from his multiple global trips and was forced to avoid Europe and Asia altogether.
He hired a carpenter to build a new bar in the boathouse and then purchased or relieved from storage oddball vessels to use on his pond, including a seal-skin kayak from Alaska, a boat of woven reeds from India, a dugout canoe from Peru, and a circular Guffa boat, similar to those he had seen on the Tigris in Baghdad. Guests often spent the bulk of their visit in the low-ceilinged basement bar, cool and dark as a pub.
Just before the war Norbert Pearlroth had listened to Ripley one night, over dinner, describe how his life had played out in year intervals. And in I joined King Features. Ripley would get his wish, though his last decade was at times a troubled one.
Oakie died in , and another girlfriend, of Japanese background, was sent to an internment camp during the war. Ripley grew stouter, and stopped playing handball. His health was increasingly frail, and his behavior often erratic. Troubled by the war and frustrated by his inability to travel, he sniped at friends and colleagues.
And yet he still had the Believe It or Not touch. Photography was expensive, and there was not an easy way to transfer photographs to print for mass production. Instead, newspapers employed cartoonists to draw reenactments of news stories and sporting events. It was a slow sports news day, and with a lack of ready material, Ripley got the idea to pull together some previously drawn cartoons of unusual sports feats he had not published. He submitted it to his editors, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The cartoon became an instant sensation, and the newspaper was inundated with requests for more cartoons. The Believe It or Not! Beyond print, Ripley also had an extensive career in broadcast, even earning his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio. Believe it or not, he was the first to broadcast underwater, underground, and from the air.
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