[78-L] recording times

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Swamp Daddy" <swampdaddy at bellsouth.net>
>> PS-I don't claim to be the expert in all these areas; but, I've lived 
>> through these eras and read of most of these items many times over.  I've 
>> even owned a few of them.  In the last move (about 9 months ago) I finally 
>> got the nerve to throw away most old magazines I'd kept for years.  In 
>> hobbies other than audio too.
>>
> Shucks! If it weren't for the problems (and expenses) involved in getting 
> them up
> here to Oshawa, Ont'o., Canada...I probably would have liked to have had 
> them,
> and enjoyed reading them!
> 
> Back in the days when libraries had actual BOUND copies of the real 
> magazines...
> and not copies on micro-wotever (or, these days, digitized, I suppose...?!) 
> I used
> to frequent the magazine holdings of libraries! The Bloomington (Ill's) 
> Public
> library had bound copies of Life going back to the first issue (I read all 
> of those),
> and the library at Illinois State (Normal) University had Radio News (and 
> its
> successors) in bound copies going back to around 1920 or so, which I also
> read my way through...!! Can't remember where I first saw Record Research...
> but I DID immediately subscribe, and bought all the available back issues
> as well...
> 
> ...stevenc
> (who, thanxes to DL, has MacLeans Magazine from 1954 to the mid-70's!) 
> 
And was I glad to find a home for those! Probably lots of interesting stuff by 
Pierre Berton, Robert Thomas Allen and other Canadians who could actually WRITE 
but there was only so much I wanted to haul out of my parents' place (I kept 
all the Esquires from the 30s and the 50s and all the old Life Magazines, the 
long runs of CBC Times, the rare issue of Ballyhoo etc).

dl