[78-L] More Recordoons... WAS Fonotipia with Dealer stamp

[I. Cubillo]

Good stories!

Wanna know another one? Just a fortnight ago, I found another Recordoon...
one of the shops in the Sunday flea market that had lotsa 78s. I was with my
little Johnny, 7 now, and it was late, he was tired of walkin' here and
dere, so we were just rushin' home. Suddenly I discovered the new shop...
used to be one of the trillions of antique shops, old furniture & warehouse
and the like... but this time was full of 78s, two big piles at the entrance
stairs, plus four milk crates inside. Probably 2,000 78s or so. I dug
through the entrance pile, fairly fast (my kid was hungry and tired) and
bought a Grace Fields british HMV of Stormy Weather, very nice and cheap.
Days later I tried to go there again, but it was impossible to find. Found
another store with a dozen 78s left, and bought one, but dunno if it was the
same shop... probably not, judging for certain details. Tried to find it two
or three more times the following days, but no success. Another Recordoon...
lost in the mists of the memory...

Inigo


Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung at ix.netcom.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:31 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Fonotipia with Dealer stamp


> There's also a Recordoon in central Florida.  Six or seven years ago I was
> calling on bookstores in central Florida and at the end of one day came
> accross a record store.  I looked through the couple of hundred 78s and
> didn't find anything.  They were closing and told me that the
"collectible"
> 78s were in the building next door and to be sure to come back and look at
> them.  I never found the store again.  Looked the next couple of times I
> was in that part of Florida but never found it. That taught me to pick up
a
> business card.  Or at least play more attention.
>
> Central Florida was also the place I got locked inside an antique mall.
> There were several thousand LPs in a space in the back of the store.  My
> watch was still on central time so when the store closed at 6 I was
> blithely still looking at all the LPs thinking I still had an hour left.
I
> was sitting on the floor between fixtures and they didn't see me when they
> closed the store.  The lights where I was stayed on.  When I walked to the
> front to pay for my finds I set off a motion alarm.  I'm just glad the two
> police officers didn't feel the need to fire their drawn weapons as
> approached.  Record hunting can be dangerous.  I guess I really should pay
> more attention.
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
> > To: .78L <78-l at 78online.com>
> > Date: 6/9/2009 7:19:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Fonotipia with Dealer stamp
> >
> > > One time in the Spring of 66 I visited my future wife when she was a
> > nursing student at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, and on a walk in the area
> > we came across a storefont which we could see thru the front window that
> > had walls lined with shelves full of classical 78 albums most still
> > wrapped in their original shipping paper.  It was closed that evening of
> > course, and I could never find it again.
> >
> > Brigadoon?
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> Biel... It's not Brigadoon... It's "Recordoon"... or "Recordroom"
>
> I've been lotta times dere... lotta times... always by nite. In my dreams
> I've dreamed with shops like "Recordoon", but... know what? I NEVER had
> money enough to buy some 78s... !!!
>
> What d'ya think?
>
> One sunny Sunday morning I was comin' back home from the Sunday flea
market
> (Madrid's Rastro) with some (half dozen) 78s under my arm. I was sittin'
in
> the bus, quietly, during a nice trip, watchin' the streets and people thru
> the screen, when an old lady came and sat beside me. He observed the 78s
and
> told me he had lotsa dem from her fatha, and told me to go home with her
if
> I wanted dem ... she would be happy to giv'em a good home...
>
> Knowutt? Really wanna KNOWUTT? I felt a bit afraid... afraid from going'
to
> a strange home... lotsa scaring stories about kidnapping and so and so...
> and I told her a "No, thanks a lot!".
>
> And lost a grrreat opportunity!
>
> Another Recordoon?
>
> Iñigo Cubillo
>
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