Monday, October 8, 2012

Plans To Turn Ali’s Home Into Museum

{Louisville, Kentucky}...Jared Weiss, the Las Vegas real estate investor who paid $70,000 for  boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s boyhood home in western Louisville is planning to turn it into a museum, restoring and refurnishing it as it looked in the 1950s when Ali lived there. Weiss says he expects to have to spend up to $75,000 to renovate and furnish the home with Ali memorabilia, but he wants the whole world to see it. Ali’s brother, Rahman Ali, whose given name was Rudy Clay, told Weiss his family lived in the Grand Avenue house from 1947 to 1961, the year after Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay Jr., won the Olympics boxing gold medal.