[78-L] Pressing Plant on TV "Modern Marvels Retro-tech"

[simmonssomer]

Just got a book from the library. It's the highly praised "Dancing In The 
Dark" by one Morris Dickstein.
It is a cultural history of the great depression. I opened it with great 
anticipation. Then in the introduction I came upon this line.
"......musicologists like Charles Seeger and John and Alan Lomax traveling 
with rudimentary tape recorders, unearthed a treasure trove of folk music 
that........"

And that was that.

Al Simmons

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Subject: [78-L] Pressing Plant on TV "Modern Marvels Retro-tech"


>  Leah just spotted a program on History International channel which
> will be repeated at 2 AM.  It has a scene in a vinyl pressing plant, and
> now is discussing the typewriter and the mimeograph machine--with some
> jackass talking about blue fingers and the sweet smell.  That's the
> DITTO machine you stupid excuse for a jerk.  WHY do I ever think these
> programs are worthwhile.  WHY?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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