Um yea I lose things so I’m not really that emotionally attached to things.
But I remember when I was at the Statue of Liberty, there was the coin thing where the machine seemingly creates a new coin from your 2 quarters or something like that (I forgot how exactly it works) and like it has the statue of liberty on it and also the quote “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”… and there are like few different variations, me and my older brother each got at least one of these coins. We went there with my aunts and uncles in the us, apparantly you had to pre-book a ticket months in advance?
I think I was just playing around with that souvenier coin on the way home.
I don’t think I even paid attention the the significance of it, or even listened to the audio guide thing, and I think I completely just didn’t care about ellis island. I was like… somewhere age 8-12… Kid-me only thought “big statue with torch, so cool”. But like… they didn’t even allow us on the actual statue because… apparantly it got closed down after 9/11. But my aunt talked about how she went in the inside before 9/11 happened. I wished I got to see the outside from like the top even though I know it would trigger my fear of heights.
I totally just missed the significance of this elis island to immigrants, and now looking back, I kinda feel embarassed I didn’t pay attentition to it, me being an immigrant myself.
But yea… I lost those coin(s) like within… I think one year… lol…
The coin it made is nickel (silvery)? Not bronze/copper? Most of those machines take two quarters and a penny, and then they smash, stretch, and stamp the penny. The two quarters is the cost of the souvenir penny. They used to have those machines everywhere. Not sure, maybe they still are in some places.
Um yea I lose things so I’m not really that emotionally attached to things.
But I remember when I was at the Statue of Liberty, there was the coin thing where the machine seemingly creates a new coin from your 2 quarters or something like that (I forgot how exactly it works) and like it has the statue of liberty on it and also the quote “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”… and there are like few different variations, me and my older brother each got at least one of these coins. We went there with my aunts and uncles in the us, apparantly you had to pre-book a ticket months in advance?
I think I was just playing around with that souvenier coin on the way home.
I don’t think I even paid attention the the significance of it, or even listened to the audio guide thing, and I think I completely just didn’t care about ellis island. I was like… somewhere age 8-12… Kid-me only thought “big statue with torch, so cool”. But like… they didn’t even allow us on the actual statue because… apparantly it got closed down after 9/11. But my aunt talked about how she went in the inside before 9/11 happened. I wished I got to see the outside from like the top even though I know it would trigger my fear of heights.
I totally just missed the significance of this elis island to immigrants, and now looking back, I kinda feel embarassed I didn’t pay attentition to it, me being an immigrant myself.
But yea… I lost those coin(s) like within… I think one year… lol…
Kids being kids… always losing things… xD
The coin it made is nickel (silvery)? Not bronze/copper? Most of those machines take two quarters and a penny, and then they smash, stretch, and stamp the penny. The two quarters is the cost of the souvenir penny. They used to have those machines everywhere. Not sure, maybe they still are in some places.
You come across them in theme parks sometimes.