OK, found it. I knew I had seen this model someplace. Check this out: http://www.victor-victrola.com/370.htm More info on the SP models: http://www.victor-victrola.com/SP.htm Maybe the one on offer is a prototype? Perhaps it belonged to someone with a connection to the VTMCo factory, given the proxi...

What the heck IS it? Judging from what's left of it, what's so special about it, I wonder?

On the old board when I clicked on "Mark Forums Read" the home page screen would reappear with the forum indicators returned to the unread state. Now on this new board, the indicators don't automatically vanish, I have to refresh the page before the indicators go to unread. Is there some w...

The title on the sheet music is "I'm Gonn-na Jazz My Way (Right Straight Thru' Paradise)".

Back in the 1950s my family owned a Zenith AM/FM/phono console (sorry I don't have the model number at hand) with a four-speed turntable, 16-33-45-78 record changer ("with Cobramatic arm!"). We never owned any 16 rpm records, indeed I've never seen one, but the presence of the speed on a n...

Beautiful machine, django! Does the stubborn lock now work with the key?

Listing has been pulled.

In Perry Mason Episode #188: The Case of the Bigamous Spouse, a VV-IX or XI (table-top model) appears in the funeral parlor scene, "playing" a recording of what sounds like a Bach chorale prelude (suitably quiet and soothing, although no ceremony is in progress). At one point, an actor rea...

My conjecture is that the center top and the top "drawer" (which is a dummy) are of a piece, hinged at the rear and lift up to reveal the turntable/arm compartment, with the horn housed behind the second and third "drawers," which open as louvers (hinged at their bottoms). The bo...