Disappointment at the Library
 

It is with great regret that I report that the Atlanta Library (Fulton County Library) has disposed of ALL the TV Photofacts and Ryders manuals that they once possessed.
They had a pretty good collection even though much of it was picked over and stolen. They had a copier there that I used many times (but some people are to cheap to copy it and just stole them).
I admit they occupied a lot of space and were rarely used, except by guys like us.
They did a remodel back in 2018 and I suspect they were disposed then. Actually it was a pretty nice library even before the remodel.
Our tax dollars at work!

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Northside Branch?
Buckhead Branch?

Or is it another..... Well, you gotta know it's going to happen at EVERY other
library that has them all over the country, just a matter of time....


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Sorry, downtown branch. Across from Peachtree Center MARTA station.

It's a space hogging PITA (I've got 6-7 4-drawer file cabinets full of Sam's) but IMO necessary thing to keep the paper around in your own collection.

Several years ago WCTC dumped their collection and it was the only one that wasn't almost an hour drive and or in a sketchy neighborhood....So I just started buying Sam's collections. I'm at the point that besides a file drawers worth of random sets between 600 and 1850 (where I decided to cut them off) and a few radio folders under 72 that I'm missing (my riders overlaps that era so no sweat) I'm pretty much solid on service literature.

If we don't save them nobody will.

Well said. Unfortunately, is the sad reality for certain historic items.

If you want Sams dont forget to check universities & OLD trade schools.
Offer them a donation & haul them away. They take up a LOT of space & sq ft is VERY expensive !
Keeping a collection clean is a PIA, especially when they slide under.
We had from #1 on. After about #1000 I kept them in the boxes & filed.
That kept them mint but they did have "legs" !

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

I been collecting this stuff for years - I have about 2/3 of the Sams from 1 through the 1500s, takes up 4 filing cabinets. A complete set of Zenith factory manuals from '48 through '79, B&W and Color (and a few up into the early 80's). Those "most often needed" manuals up through the mid-50's. A few of those Tab manuals (just RCA and Zenith), a few of those Riders binders from the 40's...

Libraries are "purifed" of some old tehnicall stuff in other countries too. People do not need to know the past, so they can't judge.

My local library is like that. They got rid of all the old electronics books probably 10 or so years ago. They never had anything like Sams Photofacts, but the small selection they did have was a huge resource for me before the internet.
I can't remember the last time I was in there but it must be about 2016 and was disappointed at how many old books were gone.

I'm glad that sites like world radio history and archive.org are offering PDF's of these books.