Bob Cassilly

About Bob

• As a restless child, his mom got him into sculpting and woodwork so he could channel out his energy.
• Went to college to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War; also constructed elaborate "backup plan," pretended to have narcolepsy.
• Always liked working around the rules, thinking outside of the box.
• When he was in school, he decided that his goal would be "to never have a job."
• Flipped houses until he had enough money to buy the huge empty lot where the museum now stands.
• Said the empty lot had "endless potential" but he didn't know what to do with it until he actually started building it.
• Felt depressed at times, built his "fantasy land" museum as a way to combat that; says his depression actually made him productive.
• Says "I needed to want what nobody else wanted and live the way nobody else wanted to live, and then I could be free."