[78-L] Collectors and 'hoarders'

[Steve Thornton]

Real milk crates are very heavy-duty plastic, and they used to, at least,
have a metal band around the top. The kind you get at Storables or wherever
are flimsy in comparison. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com 
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:14 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Collectors and 'hoarders'
> 
> At 10:25 PM 11/11/2009, you wrote:
> >The only people who might actually be inconvenienced by my 
> "78 hoarding" are
> >members
> >of the dairy industry! At that, about 80-90% of my milk boxes are the
> >long-since obsolete
> >larger size (milk boxes were resized c. 1980 so they could 
> no longer be used
> >to store or
> >move LP albums!).
> >
> >Steven C. Barr
> 
> I wonder why they were resized? I guess too many were being stolen by 
> LP record collectors. On the other hand you can buy LP size crates 
> now but they are not real milk crates. 
> 
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