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

[David Lennick]

The bats were still in that barn when the original collector was still dealing. 
But the records were in much nicer condition then. (The son is still active and 
has an ad on Kijiji so we'll just assume everyone knows who we're talking about.)

dl

On 4/6/2011 3:10 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> 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