A well-worn Amberola

[TinfoilPhono]

Still in service in 1937.

Looks like a mighty poor home. Rolled up bedding, liquor bottle and hammer on the floor, broken mirror....

[pughphonos]

Now THAT is cool!!! All sorts of social history there. The fella apparently couldn't afford any upgrades in his life after 1915, let alone 1929.

OR maybe that's a contemporary photo (mislabeled) of a fellow collector's humble habitation. He can't afford a computer and therefore isn't on the TMF (Talking Machine Forum, dontcha know). Give us a few more years of the present economy and even most of us here will have sold all we have and been reduced to our Amberola 30s.

[FloridaClay]

Here is the pic.

Even in the most dire circumstances, people want music in their lives.

Clay

[NEFaurora]

Too cool!!

I love Vintage pics!

Tony K.

[outune]

Music hath charms?? I see an additional sadness than just a messy grown-up with a drinking habit... Notice the shoes on the floor are those of a child (shoes on dresser top are adult) and then there is the coloring book page of the little Dutch girl on the wall-- an obvious gift for mommy or daddy, who cherished it enough to proudly display it on the wall of an otherwise disheveled existence.

[pughphonos]

outune, a picture is worth a thousand words, as they say. You're quite observant--yes, sad, pathetic, and sweet all rolled up in one image.