The New Historical Phono-Related Newspaper Articles and Advertisements Thread

[AmberolaAndy]

December 14, 1920: order your Victrola NOW! NOW! NOW!!!!!
Remember Last Christmas you gave them your heart and the very next day they gave it away? You really should have given them a VV-XVII!!!!

[AmberolaAndy]

November 6, 1914: pre-order your Christmas Victrola from the Marx Bros. OR BE DISAPPOINTED LIKE LAST YEAR!

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Slightly off topic, some of you will know that I am a devotee of the Micro-Perophone Chromogram described on other threads.

Unable to meet the volume of orders for certain models in time for Christmas 1929, the Company took the unusual step of delivering higher priced models for use during the Christmas period to customers whom they would otherwise have had to disappoint.
It would be interesting to know how many of these were subsequently exchanged for lower priced models when production caught up with demand. Whatever the outcome, this was an outstanding example of customer service.

[AmberolaAndy]

Halloween 1920: Do it NOW! NOW! NOW!

[AmberolaAndy]

November 8, 1919: “You risk a Disappointment a CHRISTMAS VICTROLA”

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October 30, 1918: AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT. SELECT CHRISTMAS VICTROLA.

[AmberolaAndy]

November 13, 1907
Taking a break from the urgent Victrola ads to some Edison advertising.

[AmberolaAndy]

June 19, 1897: Eldridge Johnson will be staying at this hotel!

[AmberolaAndy]

December 16, 1897: an employee of Eldridge Johnson dies in a elevator accident

[AmberolaAndy]

March 28, 1908 advertisement for the VV-XX