Collectors Treasury

[Durium]

Each record collector knows how it feels to dream that you discover a hidden forgotten antique record shop with almost the complete Robert Johnson collection for a dollar each in a banana box near the entrance ..... but you're flat broke.... Patrick from The Hague loves to share, exclusively, with the visitors of the Keep Swinging blog such a place, but please, let's not share it with other collectors, before we'd visited it!

Collectors Treasury

Durium

[EKE BBB]

It looks like a wonderful place to get lost for a week or two, checking hundreds of shelves full of books and records...

[Leeway]

It seems to me both a fantasy and a nightmare. I'll take it as a warning to my own pack rat record instincts. Rather have 1,000 well chosen, high-quality, orderly record collection than 4 floors of who knows what.

But with all those 78s in there, I suspect jeff Crom might already be winging his way to S.A.

[Dave James]

I really enjoy stories about people stumbling upon unexpected treasures. One of my favorite was recounted in the coffee table book "The Art of Rock". Some guy is walking the aisles at an outdoor flea market held weekly during the Summer months at an abandoned drive-in outside of Oakland. He comes across a guy selling posters. He starts flipping through some stacks of stuff and comes across a couple of hundred original, first edition Fillmore/Winterland/Family Dog posters, all in pristine, just off the presses condition. The seller wants almost nothing for them which the collector is more than willing to pay.

Another involves two guys who were renovating a house they'd bought in a small town in Indiana. As it turned out, the home had been owned for 30-40 years by a guy who ran the local movie theater. When they started tearing down the walls, they found that for insulation, he'd used old movie posters. They wound up with a huge stash, some of which represented the only example of a given poster known to be in existence.

[jeffcrom]

It seems to me both a fantasy and a nightmare. I'll take it as a warning to my own pack rat record instincts. Rather have 1,000 well chosen, high-quality, orderly record collection than 4 floors of who knows what.

But with all those 78s in there, I suspect jeff Crom might already be winging his way to S.A.

My wife was sitting beside me as I read this thread, and just confiscated my passport.

[Leeway]

It seems to me both a fantasy and a nightmare. I'll take it as a warning to my own pack rat record instincts. Rather have 1,000 well chosen, high-quality, orderly record collection than 4 floors of who knows what.

But with all those 78s in there, I suspect jeff Crom might already be winging his way to S.A.

My wife was sitting beside me as I read this thread, and just confiscated my passport.

Smart lady!