[78-L] Most disgusting place in your record searches

[DAVID BURNHAM]

I once visited a barn in upstate New York to look for records.  It turned out 
that the owner of this barn was the son of a far more organized collector.  But 
in the son's hands, it had disintegrated into a mountain of abused records.  I 
found many records which appeared to have been in excellent condition when he 
acquired them but now were broken, or destroyed by the elements.  They were so 
disorganized that I wouldn't have been surprised if he ploughed them in with a 
front loader.  There were different rooms segregated by label.  He told me that 
the Bluebirds were all on the second floor.  When I went up there, my throat 
burning, I found that piles of Bluebirds were covered with a half inch of bat 
poop.  I didn't even bother to look.

I don't think this trumps the old lady's retired chicken coop but it was 
certainly disgusting.

db