My subway stations are named "Penny Lane" and "Saint Anne Street," after my wife and daughter. I named a few local businesses after Annie's friends who often visited - Madame Adrian the fortune teller, Katie's School of Dance and Suzanne's House Of Beef. My alma mater is MIT, and we have a unique class ring with an image of our mascot, the beaver. The ring is known as a Brass Rat. I named a local bar for the ring, and even made a casting so I could use a model of the ring as the sign outside: When I looked at this thread, I saw the name of one of our friends who has left us, Wolfgang Dudler. He did truly great modeling. In his honor, I named the carfloat terminal after his own layout, the Westport Terminal.
I started this thread when I knew my mother's time here on Earth was short. That has come to pass. I've been trying to come up with something worthy of everything she was to me and my family. I'm thinking it will be a tall hyper-modern tower with many 'arms' cantilevered out for each of her children. Maybe it will have to be an entire city. Maybe a window for every day she spent here , (83 X 365+-). If each window was 1/8" X 1/4", how much area would I need? Hmm, about 31K windows. I guess that is a little ambitious. Maybe I can get the kids to help. I could send them each a 'wall' they could 'finish' for me. Perhaps I can light it up and never turn it off. Maybe her grand children will keep the torch alive. A double set of batteries so I can 'hot swap' them out. Maybe a bunch of sound chips with advice she used to give and the 'knock knock' jokes she told. One of her legacies, (which I believe she started at age 73), was a series of children's shows where she would read to them: http://www.newtv.org/video/MsB/antarctic-ice-caribou/ Maybe I can have a mini LCD screen to display some of her shows. Materials? Stainless steel? It would last for generations. As technology changes each could add their own. Mods: Feel free to edit this if I went too far. I'm not really thinking very straight right now.
Steve, you definitely have not gone too far, the topic title sets an exceptionally broad boundary to include all loved ones and their effect on you, and the rest of us. For me, the Saucier Central area scenes honor the joy of my youth in northern New England, and the area names honor the communities and lifestyles of South Mississippi where we have chosen to raise our family and retire. There are too many people who have influenced our lives to assign names individually. Besides, how could I possibly model Ingalls Shipbuilding, NASA's Mississippi Test Facility and Cape "Carnival", and GE's Lynn, MA works all in one measly 7'x15' room?
I don't have plans yet to honor specific people on my layout, but I will be honoring one of my favorite places by modeling the Salisbury Church in Middlebury, VT for it. Fond memories of my youth.
