Actually I think he did a great job there. The appeal of most radios/phonographs of that era is in the cabinet. He took a piece that was going to sit in someone's garage and made it a functional showpiece- and if anyone really wants a phonograph in it they can install one.
The idea of a bar in one of those cabinets isn't new- Philco offered one as an option in some of their "Beam of Light" sets.
estott wrote:Actually I think he did a great job there. The appeal of most radios/phonographs of that era is in the cabinet. He took a piece that was going to sit in someone's garage and made it a functional showpiece- and if anyone really wants a phonograph in it they can install one.
The idea of a bar in one of those cabinets isn't new- Philco offered one as an option in some of their "Beam of Light" sets.
Okay, so it's not factory original, but that one empty Credenza cabinet could---in the right hands---be adapted to be a record cabinet to match an existing intact Credenza. Picture putting the Credenza on one side of the fireplace in the living room, with the "matching" record cabinet on the other side (if you had the space, that is). The left side/right side could hold two shelves of 12 inch albums, the center section could be adapted to hold 3 shelves of 10 inch albums. The playing compartment could be divided to hold more records, needle boxes, literature. All of this predicated on (a) having the floor space for one more cabinet and (b) having the time, tools and materials to make a workman-like job of it. I'm thinking back to a certain Sonora Supreme along with its companion record cabinet I've seen discussed somewhere recently......
Some 90 years hence, your grandchildren could sell them as that "rare combination of the Orthophonic Victrola with matching record cabinet".......
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