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Re: [ARSCLIST] LP RECORD STORAGE
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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> > I got some of best 78 shelves from a collector who was simply moving
from
> > California to Mississippi and didn't want to take the shelves with him.
They
> > were two monstrous units that originally came from an old radio
station, so you
> > know they were built sturdily. Each is 6 feet high by about 10 feet
long,
> > with beautifully curved dividers - attractive as well as utilitarian.
The
> > things were painted a garish green so I redid the facing all in black,
didn't
> > touch the inside, mounted the whole thing on a rectangular box, raising
the whole
> > thing about 8 inches off the floor, and then anchored the whole thing
to the
> > wall studs. It's now literally part of the house.
>
> Similar situation..when I was at the CBC in Edmonton and about to return
to Toronto,
> they decided to replace their wonderful solid wooden library shelves with
"modern"
> metal ones and offered the old ones to any staffers who wanted to bid. I
ended up with
> a batch of them at $25 each. Of course it then cost me about $1400 to move
them to
> Toronto, and they had to be cut down to fit into the house I was moving
into..! But
> that was 20 years ago and 2 houses later, I'm still using those shelves.
>
Well, right after they changed the size of milk boxes (folks call the new
smaller
ones "metric" milk boxes, but the change was actually made so LP's would no
longer
fit in them, with hopes of cutting down the dairies' losses...) I stopped in
a variety store for a can of soda and noticed he had a bunch of the old
ones.
I asked him if he wanted them, and he said that he didn't...that the dairy
didn't want the bigger ones and he had a bunch he didn't know how to dispose
of...I could take the lot if I wanted them! It took two trips with my work
van (Rogers Cable) to get all 200-odd to my place...but these were the old
indestructible fiberglass milk boxes, so I was glad to get them!
So, three decades give or take and a change of location later, I'm still
using THOSE!
...stevenc
http://users.interlinks.net/stevenc/