It makes sense not only for Los Angeles but for the way we visit museums today, all the families with kids.
Nostalgia, I realized, wasn't about yearning to turn back the clock or a strange and silly affection for the Smurfs (or the Snorks), but rather a compass that, in the same way we visit different places, could allow us to visit different times.
Along the way, we visited big cities and rural communities.
Along the way, we'll visit a community development project such as a school, teachers' housing, or medical dispensary to learn how tourism can affect the community in positive ways.
"Along the way we'll visit all areas of the Kiss production and you'll meet many members of the crew that keeps the Kiss machine going strong," the announcement said.
Since I was headed with some friends and family on a road trip that would take me through the Mojave (and ultimately to Heizer's "Double Negative," outside Las Vegas, and Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," on the northern lip of the Great Salt Lake, on the way to Wyoming), I asked the MAK staff if there were any way we could visit "Social Pool" even though I wouldn't be able to return the key right away.
This led to memorials of a war that still seems under way, even as we visit it years later.
The school's top terrace had views of the Bay, and on our way out, we visited the Diego Rivera Gallery, devoted to student art and Rivera's mural, "The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City," full of invention and motion.
On our way back, we visited the port town and old city of Porto-Vecchio.
Leaving the north the tone changes again – on our way to Munich we visited Dresden, which, rather than being the smoking ruin of my foolish imagination, has been restored to its historic glory.
"Our bodies are too frail for space travel," says Bainbridge, "so this will be the only way we can truly visit other stars".
