The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

"In the early 1970s, the factories were razed, except for the battery complex, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996."

"Mr. Parisi, who grew up near the factories and still lives in the neighborhood, remembers gathering with neighbors on the street as a young boy to watch the buildings implode. For days afterward, he and his friends climbed through the rubble, scouring for remnants of Edison’s inventions and finding some of the wax cylinders that had been used for phonographs."


Ouch.