• 7/8/2007 6:47:19 PMSpare Cash
    I saw this ad in the classified section of the local news paper.  This individual is seeking an original copy of an advertisement for The Winter Dance concert that took place in Green Bay on February 1, 1959 featuring:
    - Buddy Holly and the Crickets
    - The Big Bopper
    - Richie Valens
    - Dion and the Belmonts

    This is one of the last performances for Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and "The Big Bopper" (aka Jiles Perry Richardson) who all died in a plane crash in the morning of February 3.

    This has got me thinking... What would I spend twenty thousand dollars on?  Hmmmm?  I'm not sure I would spend that kind of money recovering a family photo album or an old personal diary.  I would definitely not spend $20,000 on a poster.  Even if that poster represented the night my life changed.

    This isn't to say that I don't set a price on things of the past.  History has value and it is worth remembering, but at what cost?  Will preserving a concert poster affect the future in the same manner that preserving the American Constitution or Declaration of Independence does?

    Perhaps I'm reading more into this ad than there really is, but I see it as symbolic of modern thinking.  It reminds me of the television show, Antiques Road Show.  If I had one of those rare items in my possession today, Yuri would be here tomorrow.