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Perfect store for Jerry :lol:
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This photo sparked a thread back in 2010:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... rting+horn

It's still one of my favorite Shorpy photos... :)

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What a great photo! Thanks for sharing. Jerry Blais
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It's a natural! Columbia and Victor bikes/phonographs for sale!
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Great photo!!! Thanks for sharing. I guess the shop owners back then also had to remove the reproducers to keep them from being taken. Take a close look at the Victor Junior.
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Good eye... LOL
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Several early motorcycles on the left, including two Indians, one with the early "rooster-tail" gas tank... :shock:

Some brand-new Yale bicycles on the right...

The nearest motorcycle (Excelsior?) appears to be used, judging from the road-rash on the back fender and oil/fuel stains on the tank... also noticed the oil splotches on the floor... :)


I have a couple of Edison Gold-Moulded cylinder boxes from a dealer in Scranton, PA, who sold "Sporting Goods and Talking Machines", including bicycles...

Will try to get a photo of one of their labels. Sadly the building is long-gone, replaced by a squat, modern medical-practice complex. :?

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My Great Grandfather Had a machine shop in the 1890's from which he sold bicycles (that he himself made) phonographs, and mostly hardware.....Nothing fancy like this, I'm sure--but this gets my imagination flowing as to what the interior of the shop looked like.
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Phono-Phan wrote:Great photo!!! Thanks for sharing. I guess the shop owners back then also had to remove the reproducers to keep them from being taken. Take a close look at the Victor Junior.
I sold a Credenza to a friend of mine that has an attachment on it from the dealer to keep people from removing the sound box without a screwdriver. I would have kept the thing, but it had made a mark on the tone arm from being there all those years and it's kind of a nuisance unless you think you need it anyway. Some things haven't changed I guess!
Nice photo.
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