[78-L] 78 collectors

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung at ix.netcom.com>
> I've really only gotten serious about 78s in the past ten years even 
> though
> I bought my first 78s twenty-five years ago.  I'm also fortunate to be
> self-employed in such a way that I travel somewhere almost every week.
> Every time I walk into an antique store or antique mall I ask if they know
> someone in town that collects records.  Most times they don't but 
> sometimes
> they do and I contact that person and ask them if they have 78s and
> sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.  That's one way I've connected
> with other 78 collectors.  And then those collectors will tell me about
> others.
> Now I've got 78 collector friends in Austin and Big Spring and Dallas and
> Fort Worth and Houston and Humble and Llano and Laredo and Lubbock and
> Midland and Odessa and San Antonio and Seguin and Sherman and Spring and
> Waco.  That's just in Texas.  There are also 78 friends in Madill and
> Oklahoma City and Tulsa and Memphis and New Orleans and Birmingham and
> Denver and Houston, Mississippi.
>
Well, there are enough 78 collectors out there that audio-equipment 
manufacturers
still promote and sell turntables and styli used only to play 78rpm records! 
These
sorts of major corporations presumably feel the market is large enough to be
worth supplying...?!

...stevenc