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7th Jul 2015, 6:22 AM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 251 Points	I guess I had a few! 1. About 10 years ago, Jerry was having a HUGE sidewalk sale!! (Where he got all that sidewalk, I'll never know!) He had probably 10 or 20 thousand 45's in boxes on (and under) a set of long tables, maybe 10 tables in all. About 6 feet long each. The records were being sold for 25 cents!! I only got through about 2 tables before it was time for me to go, but I picked a few hundred records! One was an Elephants Memory record on Apple. I'd never heard of it before. I looked them up in the pricing guide when I got home just to see what some of them were actually worth and that one went for $50.00!! 2. Another time I went there I found The Beatles' Christmas Album for $25.00 and 2 copies of "Two Virgins" for $15.00 @. All of them are in NM condition! 3. in late 1980, someone was having a flea market just down the street from where my band was playing. One woman had a small truckload of 78's that she ended up selling me for $60.00! The biggest reason I wanted them was because one was a Glenn Miller 78 with his autograph on one side!! 4. In the mid `90's, after dropping off my future vex-fiancé off at work, I decided to go check the dumpster at a record distributor a few blocks away, just to see if they were actually throwing out records! I guessed they wouldn't be, but, no harm in checking. That night, I brought home factory condition copies of at least 2000 records!!!! I picked up a few thousand more over the next few months, but, they closed up and moved to the other side of town and started locking their dumpsters!! 5. Summer of `94, I believe it was, I went to the flea market that they have every Sunday 2 blocks from my house during the summer and some woman was there selling a few small boxes of 45's. I didn't have time to go through them, so, I just asked her how much she wanted for all of them. She said $10.00. So, I told her I'd just take them all! I gave her the money and she said she had more at her house on the hill across the river and included them in the deal! I took the few hundred she had right there and then went to her place a day or two later and she unloaded another 4 or 500 records on me!! All but a small handful of 78's were 45's, mostly soul stuff from the `70's!! I was on my way to my future ex-fiancé's and wasn't expecting to get more than another few dozen, so, as I was going on a bus, the woman's hubby offered to take me to my g/f's place in his car with all the records!! He charged me another $5.00 for the ride! Lol. I WASN'T complaining!! 6. Back in the mid `70's, we went to visit some friends, my family & I. I was in my teens. So were their kids. Someone had given their kids a huge stack of 45's, all brand new and all promos!! (One that sticks out in my head was two edits from Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play", another was, "Fazon", by The Sopwith Camel.) We were there for a few hours and I spent part of my time sifting through the records. None of those 4 kids was much into records, so they just said I could have them!! So, I ended up taking home about 300 records!! It was about at least a 2 foot high stack of 45's!!