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Marvelous photos and marvelous phonographs collections!

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

Cheers,
Fran

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

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!

Wow those pictures are awesome! Thanks for posting them

David

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

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 .

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.

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

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