A Visit To The Olden Year Museum

[Jerry B.]

We were recently in Texas for a brief vacation and had the opportunity to visit the Olden Year Museum in Duncanville, TX. Duncanville is very near Dallas. It was a chance to catch up with Rick Wilkins and enjoy the collection he was able to build for the last forty years. It was nothing less than amazing. The museum takes you on a journey through time featuring the earliest forms of mechanical music and continuing through the early history of the television. On your musical journey you will see and hear automatic musical instruments, automatons, nickelodeons, music boxes, and talking machines. It was well worth the stop.

Olden Year Museum
1050 N. Duncanville Road
Duncanville, Texas 75116
972-572-1585
oldenyearmuseum@gmail.com
http://www.oldenyear.com

We also had a wonderful Texas barbecue dinner with David and Lerria Rosamond. I'd like to thank David for making the arrangements to see the Olden Year Museum.

[gsphonos]

Awesome collection!! Thanks for sharing.

Mike Sorter
Riverside, CA

[melvind]

Wow, sounds like a fun visit! What a place and some really unusual phonographs. I can't think of anything more fun than Barbeque with the Rosamonds!

[phonolady]

Jerry,
We had great fun having dinner with you, DEE DEE and your friends.

It was our pleasure to get the museum tour set up and glad you enjoyed it.

I talked to Rick the next day and he said you reminded him you got your first Vic D from him

40 years ago or so, he was very impressed you remembered that and he said it was a great pleasure showing

y'all the museum.

Y'ALL COME BACK NOW< YOU HEAR!

David & Lerria

[Raphael]

Thanks Jerry, for your most interesting post. More than 20 years ago when I was strictly a music box collector and dealer, exhibiting at the Orlando show, I asked Rick to pick out a nice cylinder phonograph for me among the many available for sale. He chose a beautifully restored Amberola 30 and guided me on the intricacies the machine. It was the best $400 I ever spent. Fast forward 20+ years, Rick and I have done lots of business together, helped each other out many times, etc., and I still haven't been to the museum. I had no idea it was as nice as it is, but Rick never seems to talk it up or brag about it. It's now on my travel bucket list.

Raphael