[78-L] Dumbest thing you've ever done to a 78, was Re: R Johnson auction

[Cliff Bolling]

Went to a great garage sale with lots of really good 78s.  I carefully stuck the best 12 in an album and went to stash them in the garage to record later.  The lock on the garage door was stuck a little so I bent over to give it a jerk and all 12 of the records fell out the top of the album and hit the driveway.  They all hit the concrete in the same way, on edge, and had the same quarter sized bite out of the edge.  BUmmer.
 
CDB

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: [78-L] Dumbest thing you've ever done to a 78, was Re: R Johnson auction
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 4:37 PM

A gorgeous late pressing of Whiteman doing the Mississippi Suite came to grief 
one day when I rolled my chair forward and the wheel base came in contact with 
the record. There went THAT compilation.

Not ponying up 70 cents (35 per disc) for Carpenter's
"Skyscrapers" on Program 
Transcription one Saturday afternoon in 1962 was pretty dumb.

Not buying the transcription collection I was offered about 10 years ago which 
included a presentation set of lacquers of the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall 
Concert (plus the program) fits in there as well, although the stakes were 
slightly higher.

dl

joe at salerno.com wrote:
> who amongst us wouldn't be kicking ourselves if we were in those same
shoes?
> 
> is this a new thread, the dumbest thing I've ever done, like breaking
a 
> favorite record....
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