She inherited dad’s vast Barbra Streisand memorabilia collection. She doesn’t want to keep it but she’s not ‘getting on eBay’, so what to do?
- The face of the singer, Funny Girl star and author of the memoir My Name Is Barbra adorns thousands of items in a collection Mara Papalas inherited from her dad
- It’s not her thing and storage costs money, but selling items individually online is a non-starter, so Papalas is searching for a buyer to make her father proud
Countless iterations of Barbra Streisand currently occupy six storage lockers in California’s Coachella Valley.
There – sandwiched between corrugated metal walls and hefty layers of dust – the star’s iconic profile graces thousands of items, ranging from posters and record jackets to clocks and nesting dolls.
It’s not unusual for Streisand to be everywhere: she has sold 68.5 million albums over the course of her career and is currently promoting her new memoir, My Name Is Barbra, and infiltrating households through the news, public radio, late night TV, and plenty of magazines.
But these Barbras – the ones in the desert – are part of Louis Papalas’ personal collection.
Lou spent the last 60 years buying a myriad of items related to the iconic performer. But when Lou died earlier this year, his youngest daughter, Mara, inherited what’s known to be the world’s largest collection of Streisand memorabilia.
