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You're right Gary! Bound Brook. I'm getting old too! CRS!

It is interesting how ideas stay alive and take on different forms. I picked up an interesting piece at Stanton's last auction called a Westrex III and it plays what are known as a Tefi. Made in West Germany in the mid to late fifties. It uses an endless plastic film like the Goodale and like the Goodale the plastic film is engraved with a continuous record groove playing an hours worth of music. The record groove is laterally cut as opposed to the vertical cut on the Goodale. The Westrex was also known as Tefifon and I'll add a couple of interesting YouTube links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tTURrAWVYE

So cool, I like it

So this one of a kind phonograph was seriously invented in TACOMA? do we have an exact address for Goodale? Can the restored surviving one actually play anything?

Resurrecting the thread..

Here is a very interesting read about the Goodale Phonograph Co. and the machine that has seen many hands but never made the cut... The author of the article (Tampa Stan) was one of the owners that lived in the Tampa area which Paul Baker referenced in a previous comment on this thread..

click link below

blizz

https://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthread ... order.html

Some pictures of the Goodale as we received it: https://www.intertique.com/GoodaleID.html
Lynn