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Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:09 pm
by epigramophone
Taking a walk along the High Street in Rochester, Kent, we find Naylor's New Gramophone Saloon. How pleasant to peruse their stock of machines among the potted palms!
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:20 pm
by Phono48
Compared to the rest, the machine left of centre near the front, between the palm and the Harry Lauder picture is much smaller. I wonder what it was?
Barry
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:10 am
by Lucius1958
AHA!!
So it was "Edison-Beel" that produced the legendary "Brutus" cylinder......
Bill
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:56 am
by Roaring20s
Lucius1958 wrote:AHA!!
So it was "Edison-Beel" that produced the legendary "Brutus" cylinder......
Bill
Et Tu So Funny!
James.
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:40 am
by FloridaClay
Ah, if I only had that time machine. What a joy it would be to walk into a shop like that with all the shiny new phonographs of long ago.
Clay
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 4:18 pm
by Henry
And you could take a streetcar to get there!
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:58 pm
by clevelander
Henry wrote:And you could take a streetcar to get there!
Do you mean a tram?
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 7:11 pm
by Henry
Right. (When that Tennessee Williams play is performed in the UK, is the title changed to "A Tram Named Desire"? Wouldn't quite make the same impact, somehow.)
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:26 am
by Lucius1958
Henry wrote:Right. (When that Tennessee Williams play is performed in the UK, is the title changed to "A Tram Named Desire"? Wouldn't quite make the same impact, somehow.)
Followed, of course, by their production of "
Dog On A Cold Stone Floor" (
pace Flanders & Swann)...
Bill
Re: Edwardian Elegance
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:57 am
by clevelander
Henry wrote:Right. (When that Tennessee Williams play is performed in the UK, is the title changed to "A Tram Named Desire"? Wouldn't quite make the same impact, somehow.)
OK, I'll give you that!