Re: [ARSCLIST] Gargantuan, free classical 78s collection.

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

Disposal is right.A few years ago,I got rid of my jazz collection.The better 78s,I had no problem selling on eBay.The stuff that was the next level down,I had to sell in bundles of 10-50 records,depending on artist.This left me,with a lot of common 78s I could not unload.Benny Goodman,Gene Krupa,and such.I was living in a university neighborhood at the time,and there was a community "freecycle" bin in an alley,next to a dumpster.I wheeled the records up,in a shopping cart,and left them there.The next day,the cart was still there,but the records had been smashed into thousands of pieces,and strewn all over the alley like confetti.So I feel your pain.

                                 Roger Kulp

Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx wrote: In a message dated 11/29/2006 5:16:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
joel.br@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Parnassus has unwittingly acquired a vast collection of 78s, 
>approximately 75,000 to 100,000. They are offered free for the 
>taking if someone will come to Saugerties, New York, remove any LPs 
>mixed in with the boxes s/he encounters, and take the remaining 78s 
>or pay for the disposal of unwanted items.

OK, now you know as much as I do! If you are interested, I suggest 
you contact Leslie Gerber directly at: 

 Please do not contact me, BUT if 
anyone proceeds, do report back to the list on your adventures!

Best,

Joel
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I probably could not resist if they were in Western NY, justifying it mainly 
as a favor to the owner as an alternative to the cost of disposal of unwanted 
items. However I am already contemplating the disposal aspect of the records I 
have.

I hope we hear what happens to them.

Mike Csontos



 
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