Pics of Early Collectors

Post by **Inigo** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:03 am

Marvelous photos and marvelous phonographs collections!

Post by **fran604g** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 6:32 am

These photos are a real treasure! I hope others chime in on their names. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Fran

Post by **epigramophone** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:23 am

Do self portraits count? Here I am in the late 1950's :

Post by **Inigo** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:13 am

Roger, It's curious, as I had the pleasure of knowing you personally in 2019 clpgs centenary, how our faces grew bigger and older, but the recognizable face is therein, the very same face!

dzavracky · Post by **dzavracky** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:34 am

Wow those pictures are awesome! Thanks for posting them

David

phonogfp · Post by **phonogfp** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:44 am

In this picture, the fellow on the far left is Rick Wilkins. The fellow on the far right is Jerry Madsen:

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This thread would be a sobering revelation to some in the Facebook crowd whose self-worth appears to be based on what they own and publicizing it. These 40 year-old pictures show outstanding collections...yet their owners are nearly forgotten.

I wonder where some of those machines are today.

Boy, this picture takes me back:

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Two or three large tents like this set up behind the original building (later converted into the restaurant), and all stuffed with phonographs and records. It took about 90 minutes to make a circuit. Those were the days!

George P.

Post by **epigramophone** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:45 am

Inigo wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 8:13 am Roger, It's curious, as I had the pleasure of knowing you personally in 2019 clpgs centenary, how our faces grew bigger and older, but the recognizable face is therein, the very same face!

Just add glasses, wrinkles, grey (white?) hair and a beard

.

TinfoilPhono · Post by **TinfoilPhono** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:06 pm

I really wonder who this was. That's an original Edison Parlor Model tinfoil. There were no replicas back then. I wonder where that one is today? Plenty of other treasures there as well.

Post by **Phono-Phan** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:09 pm

Mike,
Thanks for sharing these photos. They are awesome!!!!

Website · Post by **FellowCollector** » Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:50 pm

Here are a few pictures of phonograph and record collectors from a few years ago that some may enjoy seeing. One is Al Gerichten from whom the late Ron Sitko obtained much of his large inventory of parts many years ago (according to a conversation I had with Ron perhaps 25 years ago).

Here is the link if anyone would like to see a few other pictures: https://timbrooks.net/wp/collectors-of-the-1970s/

Doug