Early 50's our family moved from Arizona to Southern California. Family
moved and were staying in a dumpy little hotel, waiting for the moving
van to arrive. And waited. And waited. Seems the guy driving the truck
got a quick cash offer to do another job and unloaded everything
somewhere in the desert, did his other job they came back for what was
left of our stuff. Among the casualties were my Dad's complete
collection of 78rpm Caruso discs. ALL broken. Believ tht Mom had to
restrain Dad from making the driver 'see God'.
On 12/11/2019 04:51, Mark Roberts wrote:
Dale H. Cook wrote:
On 11/11/2019 6:41 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
78RPM?
Larry -
You must be a young whippersnapper. Paul said vinyl, and 78s are almost
always shellac. The major exceptions were 78s pressed during and shortly
after WWII, when shellac was in short supply, and some were pressed in
vinyl. :-)
Those shellac discs were notoriously fragile. For example, if you were
to be at a party and accidentally sit on a pile of 78's by the famed
Scots accordionist Jimmy Shands you would certainly earn the wrath of
Richard Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNbmcVXtRM
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