[78-L] 78 collectors

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 09:20 AM 7/8/2009, you wrote:
>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.
>
>And I visited Mr.Chichester in Virginia and I'm hoping to meet Mr.
>Settlemier in Plano and Mr. Bratcher in Houston soon.
>
>I wish you good hunting both for 78s and for fellow collectors.
>
>They (we) are out there (here).  I'm thinking there are a few thousand
>instead of a few hundred.

Have you contacted Joe Selero for a meeting? He lives somewhere in or 
near Houston if I remember right.