[78-L] Never Know What You'll Find

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Stopped in a little record store in downtown Grants Pass (Oregon) Saturday and didn't find any 78s, but he directed me to an antique store on 6th and 'G'.  There I found a collection of about 1000 78s and I picked up about 150 of them, including 10 pre-1910 Columbia labels and a dozen or so 12" Blue Note and subsidiary Climax label records.  Also, lots of labels I've never seen before.  Picked up a couple Japanese records, too.  Got Paul Whiteman playing the theme from Gone With The Wind (made in Japan) plus another in Japanese, AND a bunch of 49th STATE Hawaiian labels with original sleeves.  I'll post pictures of the most interesting labels in a day or so.  

There were also 5 American Music label records with Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, and Jim Robinson.  Kind of tough finding a discography for these, apparenetly they were reissued a couple times as 78s and LPs up into the 1970s.  As I understand it, some were reissued as 78s in the 1960s??  The records I got are all 12" dia have a V-??? number with an additional 3 didgit number at the top of the label.  I'm sure they are vinyl.  These could be the late reissues??

The Goodwill Store next to the record shop had a small pile of 78s and I found 3 ZON-O-PHONEs, including my first brown 9" example.  Doesn't have a record number on it, plus another 49th State label Hawaiian disc.

Total expenditure - $163.75

Pretty exciting stuff!  CDB