[78-L] OKC record store

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

Here is an article on the shop with some video of the owner. A Google search turned it up. Oh & you'll see some Sun 78's during the video too.
 Oklahoma City record shop keeps the music spinning 
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-city-record-shop-keeps-the-music-spinning/article/3694636



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>From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
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>I was in Oklahoma City last week and visited the Trolley Line Record
>Store.  The store opened last fall with it's entire stock coming from some
>hoarder's houses in OKC.  The store's owner is sixty-something and has been
>an antiques dealer for many years.  He made contact with a guy who was
>acting as caretaker for three houses full of records and newspapers and
>magazines owned by an elderly man who had recently been confined to a
>nursing home.  The store is stocked with 15,000 lps, several thousand 45s,
>and 80 milk crates of 78s, all coming from the hoard.  Two weeks after the
>records were liberated all three houses were bulldozed by the city.
>
>I was first there in March and only had time to look through 20 of the milk
>crates and bought about 50 78s for $2 each.  This time I looked through the
>other 60 crates and bought 150 78s, again for $2 each.
>
>Didn't find anything particularly rare but did find a few fun things:
>Selma 1001 Perdido by Morton Craft & Orch. In the margin it says "Trombone
>solos by K. and J.J." I assume this refers to Kai Winding and J.J.
>Johnson.  Anyone know for sure?
>
>Capitol 3498  Andy Griffith No Time For Sergeants/Standing On the Corner
>Hadn't seen this one in a long time.
>
>A couple of Billy Eckstine big band bop instrumentals on DeLuxe and a
>couple of Gerald Wilson big band bop instrumentals on Black & White in mint
>condition.  I never see these in mint.
>
>Manor 1051  Rev. Utah Smith  I Want Two Wings/God's Mighty Hand  What is
>interesting is that side A says New York, NY and side B says Newark, NJ.
>
>Viking 105  Kay Thompson  Ay, Ay, Ay/High On a Windy Hill    The Viking
>sleeve announces "This is a NEW PLASTIC RECORD/Tough, Durable, and Elastic
>with a Rich Range of Tone Reproduction.  Flexible, Durable, Unbreakable,
>Lightweight, Scientifically Electrically Recorded.  Made in U.S.A. by
>Nu-Phonic Corporation.  New York, N.Y."
>
>Found eight Texas label 78s I didn't have (four Peacocks, one Duke, two
>Royaltys, and one Texas label I'd never seen before-Harvester from
>Waxahachie).  I've got about 85% of the Peacocks and Dukes so anytime I
>find one I don't have I feel lucky.
>
>But my real prize was Prize 6900  Willie John and Three Lads and a Lass
>Mommy What Happened to Our Christmas Tree/Jingle Bells  This was Little
>Willie John's first recording.  Prize was a Detroit label.  John Waters
>included "Mommy" on his Christmas cd from a couple of years ago.  First
>time I'd ever seen it.
>
>I had a fun time.
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