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29th Sep 2017, 7:04 AM
	xiphophilos Member since Dec 2013 3351 Points Moderator	Part of it has to do with the location of the record plants in the east. I just read that before 1946, when Decca established its own west coast plant in Los Angeles, it was really difficult to get some Decca records, to the point where all of L.A. received only 25 copies of a certain record. The other reason is people's tastes. In the Pacific Northwest, there seems to have been only very little interest in African-American music in the 1920-1940s. People did buy swing music in the late 1930s and 1940s, but mostly played by white bands. Only after ww2 does it get a bit better. So you simply won't find Vocalion or Okeh Race Records here, and R&B also almost never shows up. The vast majority of records I find at estate sales are mainstream pop or country music. California seems to have had broader musical tastes.

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