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RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:46 pm
by LadyHawke
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!
RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!! part 2
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:50 pm
by LadyHawke
here are the last couple of photos, I couldn't load them on the other post!
hope you enjoy!
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:55 pm
by fran604g
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?
Fran
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 1:58 pm
by HisMastersVoice
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
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 2:16 pm
by Roaring20s
Wildly eccentric!
While the following has been done, it would interest me with a Victrola...
http://evanstonpubliclibrary.wordpress. ... red-couch/
James.
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:34 pm
by VintageTechnologies
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrJoA2O7E4&feature=kp
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:49 pm
by FloridaClay
It is nice to see the Victor factory put to good, and rather elegant, use. So many are long gone.
Clay
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 7:59 pm
by edisonphonoworks
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.
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 8:41 pm
by Jerry B.
What was you favorite machine from the Victrola Museum? Jerry
Re: RETURN TO SENDER, 100 years later!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:19 pm
by PHONOMIKE
This is SO very cool. Thank you for sharing with us.