Charlie Martin (a good friend of mine) is still in business and still located in Bristol PA. He is open Wed-Sat. every week.
-------------- Original message -------------- From: [email protected] > > In a message dated 11/20/2006 11:44:01 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > One or two of these videos may turn up on ebay - I am in the process of > converting all my VHS tapes to DVD, and am disposing of the VHS copies. I > think > I > also have one of the Dennis Valente tapes that I will be converting also; I > think it has to do with rebuilding Victor Exhibition reproducers, if I > remember right. > I also have a tape that I made of Dave Heitz' collection. I had the > wonderful opportunity of a private showing of his collectin on my thirtieth > birthday. > The tape is rather 'homemeade' but the machines are magnificent. Now that > the collection has been cast to the four winds, I might see if I can make a > quality DVD of that tape. I had promised Dave that the owner of the > collection > would remain secret, because he didn't want everyone knowing what he had, and > he didn't want it to be broadcast all around, but now that he is gone and the > collection is dispersed, I would think that it is ok. It was a wonderful > thing to see his collection in his house and barn-museum, and it was very > generous of him to open it to me. My friend Charley, owner of an antique > phonograph > shop called 'The Place' in Bristol, PA (Charley used to answer the phone, > "This is The Place") got me the invitation, and I took a collector friend > with > me and Charley met us there. Anyone on the board know Charley > or his store? He was a great guy, and his shop was a haunt for me. He sold > me my first original Cygnet crane for $75 or so, and he gave me machines to > work on as I learned how to do so. Some of my repairs he had to go over and > refine, as I was just learning, but I will never forget him entrusting me > with > Homes and Standards to fix. I would love to go back to those times and his > shop, and hang out and talk phonographs with him. > Well, this is longer than I meant it to be - sometimes trips down memory > lane become tangents! > This gives me an idea - I would like to hear from you guys about who was > your first influence in the field of phonograph collecting/repairing. Could > be > an interesting thread! > John Robles > > > Hi John, > Sure, John. I met Charlie Martin a few years ago at "The Place". Steve Ramm > took me there and he really was a good guy. But I didn't know that he > wasn't there any more. Did he pass away? If so, I assume that the shop is > gone. > I just remember a great Pathe' Actuelle machine with the cone speaker in his > shop. And there must have been 100,000 acoustic records with no sleeves all > stacked on top of one another so that you couldn't go through them even if > you had an extra lifetime in his shop! Who knows what great stuff he might > have had at home! > So as these little shops close, are there any shops taking their place? > Does anyone know of any "new" shops for phonos or records that have opened in > the U.S. (or in the world)? They are certainly disappearing in the Denver > area. > > ---Art Heller > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank From [email protected] Tue Nov 21 08:50:37 2006 From: [email protected] ([email protected]) Date: Sun Dec 24 13:12:02 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] A fun old movie with phonograph content Message-ID: <[email protected]> Hello Just look here: http://www.coleccionfb.com/pagina_nueva_70.htm I have some other excerpt from old film on my site http://perso.crans.org/~woessner/ Recently I discover the existence of a film dating from 1911 with title "Rosalie et son phonographe" (Rosalie and her phonograph), produced by Pathe Anyone as information about it ? Philippe
