RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!

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LadyHawke
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RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!

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I had the priviledge of going to the Museum of Eldridge Johnson, in Dover Delaware last weekend!
I know many of you have also done this!! I was excited to learn about him and see the collection that was in the building there.
I also had the most fun going to the "factory", which EJ built in Camden, NJ. This is the one where it shows the smokestack with the painted glass window of "His Masters Voice" in a circle stained glass window. This is the same as it was the day it was made!
I had a machine with me, and decided to put it back at the factory door, the same one where it was produced, from, 100 years ago! It looked a bit lost!, but how fitting a return!!
It was a beautiful day and you could see the city in the distance! They had taken the old factory and made luxury condos out of it, some of which the pictures you can see!! They call them, "THE VICTOR"!
just wanted to share! thanks!
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RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!! part 2

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here are the last couple of photos, I couldn't load them on the other post!
hope you enjoy!
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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing your experience with us. That's pretty neat to be able to photograph your Victrola in front of the entrance. I wonder how many think to do that?

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I have to admit, when I first read that you photographed a machine on the steps, I kind of thought it would be a portable. Then I saw the photo :lol:
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Wildly eccentric!
While the following has been done, it would interest me with a Victrola...
http://evanstonpubliclibrary.wordpress. ... red-couch/

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Roaring20s wrote:Wildly eccentric!
While the following has been done, it would interest me with a Victrola...
http://evanstonpubliclibrary.wordpress. ... red-couch/

James.
Want your fifteen minutes of fame? Haul an oak L-door Victrola to the top of Mt. Everest and play "I'm Sitting on Top of the World". I can almost guarantee it hasn't been done yet.

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It is nice to see the Victor factory put to good, and rather elegant, use. So many are long gone.

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If It was permitted I want to mold Cylinders by Thomas Edison National Historical Park. I have take my machine and blanks there though. And cylinders I made are on the pre-perfected Phonographs. Anyway, that sounds like a very exciting experience, thanks for sharing.
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What was you favorite machine from the Victrola Museum? Jerry
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This is SO very cool. Thank you for sharing with us.
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