A MUSEUM FOR EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUDS.
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In his travels "On the Road" from coast-to-coast, our CBS News colleague Steve Hartman has visited all sorts of museums - not all of them, of course...
VO - Steve Hartman, CBS News Correspondent
"Hard to believe: 17,000 museums in America - and until now, no one ever thought to build this one: the most important one." (:08)
What would that be?
The answer from Steve Hartman on the road in Pocatello, Idaho after this...
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Don Aslett realized there were lots of museums across the country dedicated to just about everything you can think of.
As he told Steve Hartman...
SOT - Don Aslett of the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, Idaho
"Plane museums, train museums, hammer museums, cotton museums. What is the most important word in the world besides 'Faith'? 'Clean'..." (:07)
VO - Steve Hartman
"Yes, he said 'Clean.' Don Aslett built, paid for, and now vacuums the world's first museum dedicated to the history and promotion of cleaning. It's an acre of old brooms, dustpans, everything under the suds." (:15)
At the Museum of Clean, you'll find things you won't find anywhere else - such as the rocking chair vacuum cleaner.
NAT - Don Aslett, with Steve Hartman
"(Aslett:) One of the most unique ones is the guy sit in the chair. (Hartman:) Sit in the chair!?" (:04)
Aslett gave Steve a little demonstration.
VO - Steve Hartman
"I found it fascinating." (:02)
NAT - Don Aslett, with Steve Hartman
"(Aslett:) You went back and forth like this, and then the woman vacuumed." (:03)
Don Aslett wants the museum to be a learning experience. As he told some visiting schoolkids...
NAT - Don Aslett, talking to kids visiting the museum
"This is a cleaning museum. Everybody really loves to clean, right?" (:03)
VO - Steve Hartman
"A Homework Museum would go over better. But Don says if you just show kids how fun and rewarding cleaning can be, all that negativity will come out in the wash. In fact, he's bet six million dollars on it." (:12)
SOT - Don Aslett, with Steve Hartman
"(Hartman:) Safe to say you put your life savings into this? (Aslett:) Every penny. (Hartman:) You did? You spent every penny on this? (Aslett:) What good does it do sitting in a bank?" (:07)
That's the point, says Aslett.
SOT - Don Aslett
"How you clean will be how you live." (:02)
VO - Steve Hartman
"And you know what?" (:01)
SOT - Don Aslett
"It's just the way it is." (:01)
I think our longtime friend and colleague, the late Walter Cronkite, would have approved.
NAT - Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News Anchor
"And that's the way it is..." (:02)
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