[78-L] turn of the century boombox

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Mon Nov 1 14:30:25 PDT 2010


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Street cars were REALLY slow that day.  dl 

But why bother with street cars when you could hop on a Cunard ocean
liner.  I had no idea that Cunard had a dock in Minneapolis in those
days.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 



On 11/1/2010 12:31 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
>> Or just waiting for a streetcar..? dl
>
> But notice that some of the people who fully show up in this time
> exposure -- meaning they were standing still for a few seconds -- are
> there facing the phonograph.
>
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> On 11/1/2010 10:55 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>> http://www.shorpy.com/node/9251?size=_original
>>
>> Hennepin County, Minnesota, ca. 1906
>>
>> If you look in the bottom of the photograph there is someone with a
>> gramophone sitting on a bench on the street corner, perhapsa serenading
>> passers by?
>>
>> joe salerno



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