Moody's Musical Museum
By Bruce Shawkey
Moody's Musical Museum was a roadside attraction located in McGregor, Iowa that featured a collection of mechanical pianos, orchestrations, and other musical instruments. The museum included a saloon player piano, hand organ, calliope, mechanical player harp, and a mechanical bird that sang. It also featured "The Wild Wild West in Wax" and "Sam" the Mechanical Man playing the Honky Tonk piano.
In the late 1960s, the museum's owner, Mr. Moody, moved the collection to Arizona, and the museum is no longer there. Our family visited the museum several times during its final years of operation in conjunction with trips to McGregor.
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