[78-L] Record storage & 2nd floor weight limits

[Bill McClung]

My wife is of two minds about my 78s.  She isn't really interested in them
and doesn't really want me buying any.  On the other hand she sees my
collection slowly grow and finds ways to accommodate it and at times support
it.

She has designated a spare bedroom  "a music room" and found me eight
stackable hardwood furniture cabinets that hold about 4,000 78s on solid
shelves.  Also in the music room are a couple of hundred books on music and
musicians.  Another couple of thousand 78s are in milk cartons and those
metal 78s tote boxes with handles.  There's also two turntables.

In another room are another couple of hundred books on music and musicians
and under the stairs are another 20 milk crates of 78s.

In the garage on heavy metal shelving (each shelf supports up to 1,500
pounds) are 12,000 78s in cardboard boxes.  These are a collection I bought
late last year from a man in Oklahoma that I am slowly working my way
through.   My wife went with me to Oklahoma to pick up the records, keeping
the cash in her pocket and not paying it to the guy until she knew I knew
the collection was what the guy said it was.  Then she helped pack them up
and worked her butt off the whole day we were there.

I think what keeps her supportive the most is that every day we try to dance
to a 78 even though I'm not much of a dancer.




On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:53 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Steven C. Barr wrote:
> >>
> >
> > One hopes I can purchase the old factory of the Malleable Iron
> > Works (which was our Knob Hill Farms market before Mr.
> > Stavros went broke!)...then I'll have to figure out how many 78's
> > it can contain maximum...?!
> >
> Not all that off topic..when I worked in the 'Shwa, I had to spend many
> unpleasant hours in a trailer near the entrance to Knob Hill Farms, being a
> real live disc jerkey, reading ads for the second-rate food they sold
> there,
> freezing my keester on wintry Saturday mornings when the propane heater
> hadn't
> begun working yet, not being able to hear the station I was broadcasting on
> after sunset because of pattern change..wait a minute, we ARE off topic.
>  Sorry
> about that. Anyway, the place is now an oriental supermarket, I think.
>
> dl
>
>
>
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