"That was the great year," said Ms. Heinold, whose center also operates four souvenir stores.
In the first of my two souvenir photos, my brother is frozen behind me, a look of consternation in his eyes.
Tells what the amusement park looks like, with four souvenir pavilions, three restaurants, a baseball clinic by Walt (No-Neck) Williams of the Yankees, and a $2,200,000 ride called the hydro flume, which takes 3 1/2 minutes.
J. Burnett used to have only one souvenir from Felix Hernandez, the Mariners' superlative right-hander: an autographed uniform top, which he added to his collection of No. 34 jerseys.
If you bring home one souvenir from Nice, make it a signature yellow-and-blue tin containing some Niçoise olive oil from Alziari (16) at 14 Rue St-François-de-Paule (00 33 493 857 692; www.alziari. com.fr).
Shaul Zislin, who owns a beachside restaurant and two souvenir stores, sat in his mostly empty establishment recently and noted that the biggest problem was the perception that the beaches were covered with oil.
While the company is making enough DNA tags to mark about 10 million souvenir items for the Olympics, it does not have a handheld device that can verify beyond a doubt that a product is authentic.
Huckabee, who was dressed in a blazer, a striped shirt, and khakis, was at the headquarters of the Franklin Mint, on West Fortieth Street, to help sell what he hoped would become "an heirloom" for his grandchildren and yours: a limited-edition set of seven souvenir coins honoring the Founding Fathers.
The Bouroullec brothers' lamp If I could have left the Milan Furniture Fair last month with one "souvenir" in my luggage, it would have been the Lighthouse, a lamp designed by the French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for the British company, Established & Sons, using glass made at the Venini workshop in Venice.
But instead of Edenic orange groves, the new arrivals will be greeted with organic framboise ganaches, Russian River honeymoon canoe trips and Gay Palm Springs hotel packages with rose petals, Champagne, two souvenir pillows embroidered with the couples' first names and aromatherapy candles at room check-in.
