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On the river.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:16 am
by epigramophone
Four young men, possibly Oxford or Cambridge undergraduates, on the river with their gramophone.
Let's hope they did not end up in the river. Gramophones cannot swim.
Re: On the river.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:15 am
by JerryVan
Located in the Detroit River is the Island of Belle Isle. For well over 100 years it has been a lovely park. There are canals running through the island that used to be used extensively for canoeing. Many old photographs depict dozens of canoes, many with horned phonographs/gramophones aboard. I have long wondered just how many phonographs went "over the side" and are still rusting away beneath the surface.
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Re: On the river.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:20 am
by Lah Ca
Jerome K Jerome +1
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Re: On the river.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:57 pm
by epigramophone
JerryVan wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:15 am
Located in the Detroit River is the Island of Belle Isle. For well over 100 years it has been a lovely park. There are canals running through the island that used to be used extensively for canoeing. Many old photographs depict dozens of canoes, many with horned phonographs/gramophones aboard. I have long wondered just how many phonographs went "over the side" and are still rusting away beneath the surface.
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It seems that Victor encouraged owners to take their machines onto the water :
Re: On the river.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:06 pm
by Curt A
"It seems that Victor encouraged owners to take their machines onto the water."
A great marketing ploy in the era before "planned obsolescence"...
Re: On the river.
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:57 am
by epigramophone
Here is another outing :