Wonderful Gift

Folks,

This past week I was contacted by a lovely lady in Dorchester, Mass. through a friend. It seems she had come into possession of some old 78rpm records that nobody wanted. Rather than see these recordings thrown out she spent a little time online and found me. I was able to get a ride "across the bridge" and save these records from the city dump. I got some fantastic early twentieth century discs for my ever-growing collection. Oh, I almost forgot, she also gave me a neat little electic Decca phonograph probably from the 1940s. Thank you so much ma'am!

This week I also got a beautiful Columbia Grafonola table-top cabinet. I had planned on using it to replace some damaged parts on another Graf I have, but it's not exactly the same cabinet-it's nicer. So after some research I may end up swapping the works from the other one into it. Also this week I've finally begun efforts to catalog my record collection. This is something that will actually take a few years. I should have started doing this when I first started collection 78s!

The Talking Machine Forum is still going strong-ever growing! I can hardly believe we have nearly twelve thousand posts on over sixteen hundred topics in less than twelve months! The work on the label gallery continues at a snails pace, this is something else that will take years to accomplish and can never be truly complete.

I was saddened to hear of the demise of another gramophone discussion board, this one dedicated primarily to British and European machines. A new one has sprung up from the ashes and I wish only the best of luck to the founder and crew-Good Luck Gents!!!

On a personaly note-I just got back from dinner at my parents home-a delicious turkey dinner. Thanks Ma! I'm stuffed! :-)

Good Night & Good Luck,

John