[78-L] Buying new 78s [was Re: Fwd: DeitrichFischer-Diskau[fwd]]

[David Lennick]

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 > -----Original Message-----
 > I started collecting 78s in 1951.  However, the only 78s I ever bought from
 > a "store" was sometime early in the 1960s @ Maxwell Radio and Music on
 > Maxwell Street in Chicago.  Immediately after entering the shop was the
 > check-out register in front of a huge cabinet of 78s.  I asked the guy if I
 > could go behind the counter to look.  His answer was  "NO!"  He asked me
 > what I was looking for (I was embarassed to say:"Everything!" - So, I
 > said:"What do you have by Louis Armstrong?"  He pulled out several Scroll
 > Victor originals that were Mint store stock.  I  purchased them all for 75
 > cents (List Price!).
 > Paul A. Riseman
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 >
 >
 > I had a similar experience, more than a decade later. As a kid, my family
 > spent summers in the Catskills. Circa 1965, my uncle stopped with me at a
 > record store near Ellenville, which had apparently not been serviced for 20
 > years or more. The narrow shelves were full of store stock 40s and 50s 78s.
 > I pulled out a dusty copy of Fats Waller's 12-inch "Moppin" and Boppin'" on
 > Victor and asked the price. The owner pulled out the company list price
 > list, barked "$1.25!" at me and I happily paid.
 >
 > Dave Weiner
 >
A little radio store in Montreal had a mint copy of a Fritz Kreisler album when 
I went there in 1967 and as I recall, I paid $2.25 for it.  Prior to that was 
the clearance sale at Sniderman's on College Street around 1960 or '61, pending 
their official move to Yonge Street as Sam The Record Man. Lots of folk and 
ethnic and unsold Disc sets for 97 cents..wish I'd known then what I know now. 
That stock all went into storage, was moved a couple of times, Sam kept 
promising to sell it all for a penny apiece, but its last home was the Tivoli 
Theatre in Hamilton, Ontario where most of it was ruined when the roof 
collapsed a few years ago.

And there was that attic in St. Mary's, Ontario over a pharmacy that had had a 
record bar that had shut down in 1930 and none of the stock had been returned. 
Yes, a few of us did well at that place in '89.

dl