UCLA Creates Wooden Exhibit
Los Angeles, CA – His overstuffed recliner is tucked in a corner, next to a table with a telephone and an address book open to names written in pencil.
The television plays a loop of a Western and a baseball game. All that’s missing from the cozy scene is John Wooden himself.
UCLA recreated the home den of the late basketball coach in a new exhibit that opened Wednesday at the Athletics Hall of Fame, located steps away from Pauley Pavilion, where Wooden plied his trade until 1975.
He died in June at 99. In the months that followed, his children, Nan and Jim, sorted through numerous requests for items from their father’s life, including from the Smithsonian.