[78-L] for Grey Gull history fans

[Donna Halper]

I just found the ad that was placed in the Boston newspapers about the 
Grey Gull bankruptcy and the auctioning of whatever stuff it owned.  The 
ad was in the Boston Herald, 22 November 1931.  It referenced:

"Trustee's Sale in Bankruptcy.  Bankruptcy No. 49316.  Office Machines, 
phonograph records, and mailing list of GREY GULL RECORDS."

It said everything in the 19 Macallen Street South Boston location was 
being auctioned.  It doesn't seem like there was much left in the office 
by this point; one wonders if anyone did in fact decide they wanted the 
28,000 Grey Gull Records-- I assume discount department scores scooped 
some of them up?   Anyway, the ad listed the following as being 
auctioned:  "2 Elliott Double Keyboard Electric Cutters,  1 Elliott 
Stencil Cutters, Elliott Foot Power Addressing Machine, 2 Adding 
Machines (1 Electric), Typewriter, 2 Hand Power Tabulating Machines, 
Steel Shelving, Steel Lockers, 8 Truck Skids... 28,000 Grey Gull 
Records. 200,000 mail order names.  By order of Joseph J. Tafuri, 
Trustee, 73 Tremont Street, Boston Mass."