[78-L] for Grey Gull history fans

[David Lennick]

They threw it in with the electric adding machine.

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On 11/21/2012 11:21 AM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> Can't find Macallen Street on Google maps.  Where was it?  What happened to
> it?
>
> Ron L
>
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> 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."