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13th Aug 2017, 6:39 AM
	Bob1951 Member since Oct 2016 2678 Points	Hello, OK, I'll Start. I always liked 78rpm records even when I was a kid in the 1950's. We had an old 78rpm record player and only a few 78rpm records but the one I remember was "This ole house" sung by Rosemary Clooney. I collected them for many years, long after my old 78 rpm record player had worn out. I could get them at auction for very little money, like 50 cents or a dollar for a box of 60-70 records. A lot of them I got for free, even at auctions as no one wanted them back then. I accumulated thousands of them over the years. Even though I had a lot of these records, I did not play any for many years. (like maybe 30 years or more!) Then, I bought a few old school house record players in the 1990's and listed to some of the records on them. Finally in 2009, I decided to get a good record player. (which I had never had before) the old one was a junker from the beginning, but at least it played them for a while before wearing out. I bought a brand new Audio-Technica AT-PL120, mostly because it was one of the few available at the time with the 78rpm setting. I am still using this record player daily. For awhile I recorded them with my computer and donated a lot of the recordings to the internet archives. If you see rec78, or brrc, on the internet archive recordings, they are from me. After I gave this up, I digitalized a lot of them to mp3 format and made over 150 CD's for myself. I did sell quite a few of them over the last 20 years. I had never planned to collect them. My plan was to record the music on them and sell them. Now, my plan has changed to put the music on CD's for the music that I like and sell them after I make sure that the label images are on this website. So far as of 8/13/17, I have imaged and uploaded about 20-25 percent of my current 78 rpm collection labels to this site. I do not have them in any sort of order. I am the most dis-organized person in the world. They are all over the place in boxes. containers and even filing cabinets. Bob Edited by Bob1951 on 16th Aug 2017, 9:15 AM