CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 31, 1996 | TRACY JOHNSON, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Some folks collect stamps, others prefer matchbooks, but the only hobby that ever interested former Gardena City Councilman Chuck Nader was buying a barn and filling it with vintage Americana. He waited 30 years for that red-and-white barn in the middle of Gardena to go on sale, and when it did, 15 years ago, he grabbed it and filled it with country and western and other American nostalgia and created his own museum.