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Collecting Memorabilia from Alan Kulwicki's House

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Inside Alan Kulwicki's Private Trophy Room & Museum in Greenfield Wisconsin

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Bob Trnastic, with Jon Jeffords (who worked on Alan's crew), recounts the emotional process of collecting memorabilia from Kulwicki's house after the plane crash. He shows photos of Kulwicki's home and the state of his trophies and belongings, which were left untouched for years. The collection of items involved meticulously putting everything back together and loading them into a U-Haul truck for transport back to Wisconsin. He clarifies that Alan had no living family members to carry on his legacy.

Goal: Illustrate the process of gathering Kulwicki's personal memorabilia for the pavilion.

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  • U-Haul Truck U-Haul — Transporting collected memorabilia from Alan Kulwicki's house

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the group who put the Pavilion together and went to Allen's house to collect the memorabilia he's got some pictures I've never been seen before and a pretty cool story about how this place came to be and that is the that's the sign that is the sign good morning that's good hello Bob how you doing this morning John I'm doing well this is Mitchell from how you doing hi nice to meet you good to meet you all right so what kind of happened here is after Ellen was here we after he won the championship we invited him back to the city of Greenfield 10,000 people showed up that day to come to the Greenfield High School to see alen Quicky and it was really quite quite neat we had just tons of people there from all over and I think the most thing that impressed me the most was this towards the end of the day and he say walked down to the end of the table and he said find out how many people are still in line cuz he said I got to fly out of here here soon and he says I got to get back not a problem so I took a couple of my officers cuz I was on the police department at that time walked down we counted about 300 something people and the guy was standing at the very end he goes oh he says I drove here three states just to come and see Ellen quickie I said not a problem I said he'll try to get you you know an autograph for you but I said I got to let you know he's got to fly out of here so about a couple hours had gone by not knowing at that point Allen had already rescheduled his flight so at the end of the thing the guy was standing at the end of the table I was kind of standing by Ellen the guy was standing there with these two ladies and I'm waiting for the guy and I gave the guy a thumbs up like this that you made it all the way here for your autograph and the thing that impressed the heck on me he walked up to Ellen all he did is he said I just want to shake your hand didn't want an autograph didn't want a picture just wanted to shake his hand that impressed me the most for somebody to drive wait that many hours in line drive three states here just to shake his hand well obviously we know what all happened you know later onil 1 plane crashed It All Happened sat down with the mayor of Greenfield and I said you know we're always proud of alen and I was married Jim Besson which he's gone now too but uh we said we were always very proud of alen he was always very proud of Greenfield Wisconsin and we got to do something here for him this park was called Cold Spring Park…

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