[78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"

Thu Jun 3 17:51:28 PDT 2010

    I no longer actively collect as I disposed of my collection of over 2500 Vernon Dalhart records several years ago.  During my collecting days I advertised (very little help) drove from coast to coast several times checking as many places as I could find along the way.  My biggest help was a batch of over 100 duplicates from the Country Music Museum and almost 100 records from two record stores in San Diego.  I also picked up over 50 from Jim Hadfield's barn in upstate New York.  I also bought 3 Dalhart collections just to add items from their collections.  I also picked up a lot from mail auctions such as Kurt Nauck's.  I also picked up some records when I visited Kurt and several other dealers in person.  I was a busy man for about ten years, traveling over the country and researching for my book while I was collecting records.  Now I still  check several mail auctions and monitor eBay just in case a rare Dalhart pops up.  And one does
 occasionally.  I am still updating the discography with new finds.    Jack

--- On Thu, 6/3/10, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:20 PM

Here in San Antonio the thrift stores won't accept 78s at all.   The Half
Price Bookstores still buy them but there aren't ever that many in stock at
any given time.   I check Craig's list but haven't found anything there for
quite awhile.

I work full time so I'm not able yet to spend as much time looking as I'd
like. This is one reason I'm not doing much on E.B., the other being the
wife knows all and sees all.

How many of you have "I buy 78s" ads running?  And where do you run them?

My best finds are either what I stumble across or through my network of
individuals who are watching out for 78s for me.  I got three calls this
week from my network (one in Houston, one in Dallas, one in San Antonio) so
I'm not complaining.  I'd just like to hear from you on how you find 78s.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:46 AM, <bradc944 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Having worked at a thrift-store for a while, I can tell you one thing: it
> depends on the store employees... sometimes it is the manager that just
> dumps the old stuff thinking they're worthless, sometimes the manager puts
> out 78s with unreasonably high prices, then dumps them after the discs have
> been sitting on the shelf for months (usually in the glass 'showcase'),
> sometimes it is the person in charge of the receiving area that has
> 'buddies' that get called whenever something of special interest shows up.
>  I've seen all instances happen...  I've also seen managers that will
> literally flood the shelves with material... which is how I got 9 HUGE boxes
> of reel-to-reel tapes over the period of a month... all with some
> interesting material on them (local radio programs from the 50s and 60s,
> dubs of 78s, etc etc).  I think I got maybe 2/3 of the archive until some
> guy came in and flashed a huge wad and DEMANDED that he get the rest of the
> available tapes, even though they weren't
>  put out on the floor for sale yet. Dunno how that went because I left with
> a couple of boxes of reels... and the guy trying to throw money at me for
> them (to which I said, politely yet firmly, something to the effect of 'go
> stuff yourself').
>
> Now, to put a brighter picture on things, a couple of weeks ago, I was in
> another thrift store, known for occasionally putting out some decent 78s...
> I found fragments of ultra-common things (including the ubiquitous Bullet
> 101) in the bins, but BETWEEN the bins was the 2-disc copy of the
> Crepitation Contest, each disc in its' own clear sleeve!  Needless to say,
> they're safely in the archive now :)  I paid 69 cents per disk (fair shape,
> one being cracked but restorable) for the 2, interesting because these were
> the ones with the "WINDBREAK RECORDS" labels, the "Battle At Thunderblow
> (Windesmear vs. Boomer)" in 4 parts.  Not a matrix number to be seen
> though...
>
> Was a nice find :)
>
> Brad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Glenn Longwell
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 02:14:00 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"
>
> I did this once.  I unloaded about 1100 78s - common, duplicate big band
> stuff from the 40s - among 4 different Goodwills near me as I didn't want to
> overwhelm any one of them.  These are stores I've bought 78s at before so I
> knew they'd take them.
>
> I went back to all of them a short while later and none of them had ever
> put them out. In fact, it seemed they were reducing the area where they had
> records. They must have someone who they'll call when records come in.  Of
> course, they're not supposed to do that but what else could it be? I can't
> believe all 4 stores would have dumped them all.
>
> Glenn
>
> --- On Wed, 6/2/10, Don Chichester  wrote:
>
> From: Don Chichester
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 5:16 PM
>
>
> In my experience, if there are more than one shop in an area, donations are
> divided among the SA shops, Goodwill, et al.  So it pays to make the
> complete rounds, if possible.
>
> Don
>
> > From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:29:28 -0400
> > Subject: [78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"
> >
> > 78's seem to turn up at our local SA thrift shop about once a year or so;
> if
> > I'm not
> > lucky enough to see/buy them the day (or so) after they are dumped in
> with
> > the
> > gazillion or so LP's, all I usually find are pieces! Found two
> > to-day...oddly enough
> > both of jazz interest. Only the two...no fragments to suggest there had
> been
> > others...?!
> >
> > First was a UK Parlophone...from the "Second New Rhythm Series" (#9/#10).
> > Two sides from Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra; first was a master
> pressing
> > but the second didn't look to be such... m#405063=3/405167=B.
> >
> > Second is Prestige 835; two sides by Reinhold Svensson and Quintet
> > ("Nevertheless"/
> > "I Guess I'll Have To Dream the Rest").
> >
> > One wonders...were these two favourite discs set aside by some
> > recently-deceased
> > jazz lover...or two discs from a much larger jazz collection? If the
> latter,
> > then what
> > happened/will happen to the remainder? Already landfill bound (then how
> did
> > these
> > two get missed?!)...or set aside for eventual profitable sale? I know
> there
> > is a story
> > involved...just no idea what it IS...?!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
> >
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