Now we know where the records went to.

[slammer]

I just stumbled on this little gem and thought it would fit here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3n_EzydKfM

[Lah Ca]

Interesting but sad.

Thank you for posting.

There was also a buy-back in Canada where they would take cracked or broken records, pretty much anything as long as they weren't laminated.

Ref: viewtopic.php?t=55185&hilit=buy+back

[epigramophone]

Yes it was a good cause, but we can only wonder what treasures were lost.

[edisonplayer]

I remember my late friend Arthur Pare telling me about seeing stacks of 78's behind the counter at Bailey's Music Store in Burlington,VT where he grew up during WW2.edisonplayer.

[Nat]

Not just wars... In 1967, when I attended a college whose name will remain unmentioned, they had an entire basement room lined with a vast 78 rpm library, including very many Fonotipias. On a return visit years later I was told that they'd been declared obsolete and dumped into the general waste for disposal. Ignorance and short-sightedness are our enemies too.

[gramophone-georg]

Not just wars... In 1967, when I attended a college whose name will remain unmentioned, they had an entire basement room lined with a vast 78 rpm library, including very many Fonotipias. On a return visit years later I was told that they'd been declared obsolete and dumped into the general waste for disposal. Ignorance and short-sightedness are our enemies too.

Funny about that- about 20 years ago the big university near me had a library sale. There were probably 4 basement rooms full of dusty boxes of 78s. I filled a Mercedes minibus 4x and paid $50 for my haul. It was some amazing stuff, classical and historical. Wonder if it might have been the same university.