[78-L] Question 1812 Overture

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

David, You & I are not the only ones on the list with a house that we live in 
that is overflowing with records. As you may already know there are a few others 
on the list that have the same situation with the number of records owned in the 
home & perhaps in storage (hopefully climate controlled) like you have. Oh & I 
keep 2 window units running 24x7 in the garage to keep those records cool during 
the late spring to early fall months. Don't need them much during the winter.

One thing I wonder does anybody keep records in the garage (instead of a car & 
other stuff) like I do? For me it's cheaper than keeping them in a storage unit 
even with the house A/C bill  in the summer.


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 9:55:42 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Question 1812 Overture

Sounds like home. Plus a few storage units in my case.

dl

On 4/3/2011 9:16 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> David, my Weingartner Columbia green label Beethoven 9 symphonies might be on
> Entre (as a reissue) instead of the regular Columbia blue label but I haven't
> played it in a good year so I'd have to go digging though my classical LP's to
> find it one day if I ever decide to look for it. Didn't think he'd be on Entre
> but I guess he was at least for this set anyway. My other Entre record (a 
>single
> disc of a symphony, orchestra&  conductor I can't think of without looking for
> the album) is on the grey label. I've got so many 78's, 45's&  LP's that I
> honestly can't remember all of them without digging through the collection, 
>some
> of which I've never played since I aquired them in one way or another though 
>the
> 35 years that I've been a record collector a.k.a vinyl jumkie. I really don't
> think that it's my 52 years of age but rather the huge size of it. A rough 
>guess
> might be a hundred thousand discs (with duplicates included) but I might have
> more than that. I honestly don't know how many records I've got. Just that it
> fills up 2 bedrooms, part of the living room, some of the hallways (yes it's 
>all
> on shelves) plus all of a 2 car garage. In other words my 1999 Toyota pickup
> truck is parked outside in the driveway. Thats why my acummulating (to call it
> that) of new (to me) listening treasures has slowed way down from what it used
> to be. Yes I still go to the Austin&  Houston record collector shows but must 
>of
> my other tracking down (or hunting for records) has almost stopped with the
> exception of buys on Ebay from time to time. Other than visiting Black Dog
> Records one time last year (a collector shop on Shepherd close to hwy 59&  
they
> never have 78's) I haven't tried to visit whats left of the Houston record
> collector shops in several years. Nor do I go for record hauls of any size 
like
> I used to do in the past as I honestly don't have room unless I wanted to rent
> climate controlled space on west 34th street which I've thought about but it 
>can
> get expensive if I rented more than one 10x10 or a 20x20 space every month to
> store more rocords so I haven't done that&  don't intend to anytime soon at
> least not for another year or two. Still have some space in my bedroom (the 
one
> I sleep in) at least. The dining area is full of records on shelves&  I'm not
> putting them in the bathroom, kitchen or the attic!! However the living room 
>has
> some space for a few shelves but then I'd only have a path to walk through 
plus
> a place for my computer.....
>