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

[Craig Ventresco]

What was the 9" Zonophone without a number on it?

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:03 PM, <78records at cdbpdx.com> wrote:

> 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
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