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

[Taylor Bowie]

When I was in 8th grade,  our school rummage sale had a huge stack of 20th 
Century Fox records of musical soundtracks...everything from Alexander's 
Ragtime Band to Orchestra Wives back to earlier stuff I can't recall.  They 
were ten cents each,  and since I  "wasn't sure" what they were,  I let 'em 
go.

But...just last year I went to a house sale not too far from where I 
live...and bought about 40 one-sided pop Victors and such (1903 -1910) in as 
close to new condition as possible...and,  shades of 1965,  THEY were ten 
cents each.  But,  not willing to miss a chance to screw up,  there were 
also about fifty thick Edisons of pop stuff which I failed to look at (all 
paper labels,  many dance bands) and they were ten cents each,  too.  By the 
time I realized I'd messed up and went back,  they were long gone.


Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Never Know What You'll Find


> On 9/13/2010 3:42 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to remember when Blue Note had a subsidiary label called
>>> Climax
>>> before I noticed the previous reference to pre-1910 Columbias....
>>>
>>> Not bad stuff! Now if only it were 1965 and these were all still 10 
>>> cents
>>> apiece.
>>>
>>> dl
>>
>> David,  in 1965 I was a widdle kid about to work my first job (Saturdays 
>> at
>> Fillipi's Book and Record Shop,  which some of you  will remember).  As I
>> recall,  my starting wage was $1.25 per hour,  so even at a dime each the
>> stack of records would have cost me a lot!
>>
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>
> No kidding. I turned down lots of good stuff at ten cents a disc (and 25 
> cents
> for the twelve-inchers at The Cripps, which later became Goodwill) in the 
> mid
> 60s because of financial restraints. The one I'm still kicking myself for
> (hard, in the head, and twice on Sundays) is the pair of Program 
> Transcriptions
> of Carpenter's "Skyscrapers" with Nat Shilkret conducting.
>
> dl
>
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