[78-L] First 78

[Cary Ginell]

I'll never forget mine. It was a Garrard RC-88. Here's a picture of it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Garrard-Antique-Turntable-Model-RC-88-4-Spins-/150535176085?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item230c987f95

4 speeds - I never used the 16 2/3 speed. The changer was easy on records and nothing ever broke, even 78s handled well with the 3-inch drop to the platter (makes me shiver today).

Cary Ginell

> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:44:06 -0800
> From: rbratcherjr at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] First 78
> 
> What did you play your dads 78's on when you were 3 or 4 years old? Some kind of 
> windup phono? A childs phonograph? Or maybe o 40's or 50's era (modern then) 
> electric phono? My first record player was a hand me down from the early 50's 
> that my dad & his brother owned together. I don't remember much about it other 
> than it was dark brown, a changer & a tabletop model. Yes I still have the 
> records that I played on it when I was little but that old phono is long gone. I 
> was born in 1959 & had that record player when I was about 4 or 5 years old. 
> Wasn't allowed to play my dads reords back then though so you were very lucky.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 7:21:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] First 78
> 
> Now as far as "first 78 acquired" this is different! My father had some 300 
> or so 78's (which I inherited by
> default...no one else wanted them...!). I was allowed to play them as a VERY 
> young child (of 4 or so); one
> of my favourites was a Brunswick of the Mills Brothers "Good-Bye Blues" (as 
> well as his album-set reissues
> of the Boswell Sisters!) I still own all of these (and MANY more!!). Among 
> the first 78's I bought
> (about 25 at a flea market) was the Columbia of Guy Lombardo's "Sweethearts 
> On  Parade;" this set
> me looking for more 20's/early 30's Lombardo discs...!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
> 
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