[78-L] Record Research, wuz Re: Collecting hobbies and their prices...

[David Lennick]

#27 is actually readable..no auction pages in it for some reason, and it 
predates those microscopic discographies. The pages (all 12 of 'em) are also 
hand-numbered at the bottom..this all changes with issue #28. And these 
magazines are already self-destructing.

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> Good morning, Mr. Lennick. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to read one entire issue of Record Research without squinting. Naturally, the record collecting society will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This magazine will self-destruct in five seconds...
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> Cary Ginell
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>> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:03:40 -0400
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: [78-L] Record Research, wuz Re: Collecting hobbies and their prices...
>>
>> Don't get me started on reading these old Record Research issues, okay? First 
>> one I looked at (#27) has a discography, BURL IVES ON COLUMBIA RECORDS Part 1 
>> which I sure could have used a few years ago if I'd known I had it. Naturally I 
>> don't have the issue containing part two (my stash jumps from 28 to 35 since 
>> the "complete" run I was bidding on about 12 years ago was cherry picked). I 
>> also see Barry Hansen doing a blues column in these issues. He's better known 
>> as Dr. Demento.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what is causing holes to appear in the back pages of some of 
>> these magazines, by the way? Something in the paper that disintegrates at 
>> certain temperatures or degrees of moisture or dryness? I first noticed this 
>> some years ago when the picture sleeve of Kitty Kallen's "I'm A Little Teapot" 
>> developed holes in a pattern that followed the shape of the record.
>>
>> dl



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