[78-L] Joy of collecting 78's

[Cary Ginell]

My favorite haunt was an old man in Fort Worth who had a barn that was literally filled with nothing but 78s. There were shelves of records that went up to the ceiling, piles of records in aisles waist high like snow banks, and the whole place was carpeted with broken records so every time you walked or moved your feet there was a crunching sound. I got lots of nice stuff from him - he used Docks' first edition as a pricing guide, which means I did well on Bluebirds and Vocalions. The most expensive item I bought from him was Blind Willie McTell's "Stole Rider Blues" on Victor for $40. Most everything else was less than $10. This was in the early 80s and he has long since passed away but I always wondered what happened to all those thousands of records that I left there. 

Cary Ginell

> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:40:48 -0700
> From: xxm.harkin at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Joy of collecting 78's
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> Bob Bratcher wrote, "Like when I paid $6 at a record collector show for RCA
> LSC-1817 (Offenbach Gaitie Parisienne by Author Fiedler & the Bosten Pops) that was worth about $300 & it's now worth around $500 last time I checked.
> 
> To whom, pray tell....  Not worth three cents IMHO.
> 
> I do agree about the thrill of the chase.  My own best is going to a private home, where they guy had, among other choice goodies, the Muzio
> Refice set and the d'Indy -my memory may be playing me false here-Variations, Interlude & Finale, and the Barere Don Giovanni of Liszt. A total of 200 choice discs for 20 cents each....
> 
> Mike in Plovdiv
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