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

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> I stopped in an antikew store in a mining town (forget the name) in Idaho 
> and
> found interesting sheet music and a Mario Lanza radio station promo 
> package
> (with the biography side narrated by Johnny Victor) for a few bucks. And 
> on
> display, with a $15 price tag, was "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny". 
> Naturally.
>
Two or three years ago I dropped into a local (Oshawa, Ont'o., Canada) 
thrift
store. They had a few 78's...but with $12 price tags! I asked if that was 
the
actual price...the clerk on duty assured me that it was, saying "These are
VERY old and rare!" I didn't have the heart to tell the poor lady that I
already owned about 20,000 (then!) of the dommed things...?!

What was frustrating was that it happened to be an A-series
Columbia which I DIDN'T own...?!

Steven C. Barr