A small town museum
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 07/06/2005
I lived in Florence in the early 1960s. In those days the Uffizi was unbelieveably cheap and easy to get into. I went there almost every day for four months. You could get right up to the paintings then. There was little or no security. No one gave a thought to anyone hurting one of the magnificent works that hung on the walls. Now that's all gone. We live in a tense and dangerous world today. That is too bad. I am glad for the experience I had back then as I will never have that experience again.