[78-L] Jacob S. Schneider]

[Michael Biel]

There was a photo in Life magazine which my mother cut out for me when I
was still in high school.  That photo has appeared in one of the books
in the Time Life sets of big band re-recordings.  He had taken over the
ballroom in some old hotel, and there were records up to the ceiling in
this place, and Jake was in the front with a grocery store shopping cart
of records.  I never met him, but this photo was my inspiration.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

   -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: [78-L] Jacob S. Schneider
 From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
 Date: Wed, January 14, 2009 6:11 pm
 To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
 
 Schneider never had a collection.....it was an accumulation.
 
 Bud 
 
 -------Original Message-------
 
 From: oldsound2002
 Date: 1/14/2009 4:29:26 PM
 To: 78-L Mail List
 Subject: [78-L] Jacob S. Schneider
 
 Yes, I recall being given a newspaper clipping around 1970, from the
Daily
 News, IIRC -- an article with a photo of Schneider sitting in his
warehouse,
 among piles of his discs. The article mentioned that Tiny Tim was one
of
 his regular customers. Unfortunately I no longer have the clipping. 
 Evidently quite a character. What ever became of him and his
collection?
 - Tony W.
 
 --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Bertrand CHAUMELLE <chaumelle at orange.fr> wrote:
 From: Bertrand CHAUMELLE <chaumelle at orange.fr>
 Subject: Re: [78-L] Why we collect
 To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
 Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 11:29 AM
 
 Hi Steve,
 
 Two recent remarks by you and David Lennick regarding your vast
 collections, reminded me of someone named Jacob S. Schneider, who had
 (in 1957) 450,000 jazz and popular records from 1888 to 1943.
 
 Did anyone ever heard of him ?