"After Fifty" Article pg.1

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"After Fifty" article on Ralph Bangay July, 1993 Page 1

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Ralph and Eugenia Bangay founded and operated Memory Junction Museum at 60 Maplewood Avenue, Brighton, Ontario from 1995 to 2017. Ralph's love of history and astute eye for memorabilia, including artifacts, photos, deeds, and documents soon created a gathering place for Brighton history.

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Top Left: July 1993
Top Centre: 20 Pages
Top Right: Vol 1, No.2

Title: A man's house is his... museum?
Subtitle: By Jim Lawrence, After Fifty

Main Text: Ralph and Eugena Bangay live in a museum. It wasn't planned that way, but their comfortable, blue, board-and-batten home in Brighton is crammed to the veiling with antiques and memorabilia that Ralph has been collecting for over 60 years.
Every mom holds something of interest, from a wooden 1800's baby carriage to a penny-farthing bicycle, still whimsically decorated with tinsel, left over from Christmas, guarding the top of the stairs. There's a pendulum clock beside framed pictures of his parents, a couple of original oil paintings and a stuffed hyena's head, an authenticated 2,000 year old Peruvian stirrup lamp and a massive collection of antique kitchen utensils - all just part of his upstairs collection.

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In the basement he keeps many more items in a large room bursting with pictures, helmets, tools, skates, furniture, newspapers, signs, high button shoes, lanterns and enough Brighton memorabilia to start a museum.
In fact that's what Ralph Bangay wants to do: start a museum in Brighton.
It isn't the first time he's set out to stock a museum for his home town. About 20 years ago he owned a piece of property just west of the town. He approached the council with the idea of damming the stream, making a small [See "After Fifty" Article pg. 2].

Image Description: After a lifetime of memorabilia, Ralph Bangay has filled his house, barns, and museums with the memories of the past.

Bottom Right: Continued on Page 10

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