It's 78 time

[northwesty]

Well, thought I would share my "new" record set-up. Picked this up at an estate sale to replace my newer but giving me troubles sony set. This I think is from the late 70s. That 78 player over there is mine that I've had for years. But I did get this other turntable as well. Work Great.

This Toshiba is almost identical to the one I had when in high school. It works better with record players than the newer ones that aren't set up for them. I have the 78 player set into the AUX inputs as it seems too hot for the regular phono.

Interestingly and one of the reasons I wanted to post, as I know some of you frequent these estate sales, is that as I was going through there I noticed my own high school yearbooks, my years, on the shelf for sale. Who would part with their own year books? So I had a funny feeling looking through them and sure enough it was one of the ten or so of my classmates who had passed away, or fallen asleep with the Lord as I like to say. This was his house when he was growing up and this was his father's estate sale. Anyway I had just had my 30th class reunion a few weeks ago so we were actually just thinking of this guy. Don't know if anyone out there has had a similar experience.

So, I have somewhat of a collection of 78s and I haven't listened to them in a while but have been getting them out as of late and really enjoying them...

 

[northwesty]

Still collecting

Well, I needed a new Three little Pigs 45 for the kids so I bought one on ebay, and low and behold it was a pristine 78 set. These 78 books have about 20 pages of great artwork so of course I had to collect all I could get. This Bugs Bunny one is hilarious by far the best. Anyway the kids have no concept that these things are 60+ years old, but they are much better than the LP versions with 2-3 pages I had growing up.

 

[northwesty]

78 holder collection

When I first got married these were where the kitchen dishes should have been -- I did move them...

These come in two versions, one with the triangle side like this and the other with a inverted V. I like this version better and have been able to trade my V sets for the triangle ones. Most of my records are in albums and these hold the miscellaneous ones.

BTW I used to own this wonderful Zenith inlaid wood consol with the cobra arm from the 40s, but I took it to a repair shop, and they guy just never got around to working on it. Literally it sat in there 15+ years and I was just not motived to get it back I guess - don't have any room for it. Hope it found a good home as space is tight here. That 78 plaver there I can EQ through the amp and it still was in the original box when I got it so it actually sounds better.

 

[rp2813]

After owning it for 40 years, I sold my Victrola XVI a few years back and let all my 78's go with it.  Sometimes I wish I had some of those records back, but I hardly ever played them.  If I had owned a more modern phonograph like yours for 78's, I would have kept my favorites.