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Originally posted by Charlie
It was a shame that such a nice piece of equipment ended up rotting away like that. Even though i didn't care for the cabinet styling, i still knew it was a quality built console.
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I hear ya, Charlie.
About fifteen years ago, my uncle in Chicago passed away, and several of us relatives made the journey north to see about his last affairs. I remember him as a nice man, but he was the king of pack-rats! His entire house was filled, from top to bottom, with 'stuff'. My father had to rent one of those half-a-railcar-sized dumpsters just to handle the stuff we weren't going to save!
It turned out that there were several large, old radio/phono consoles down in the basement. I'd say these were from the thirties. To me, the workmanship on these old machines was unbelievable! Like nothing I'd seen before. But alas, decades of dampness and neglect had taken a sad toll, and the cabinets, especially, were nearly ruined. I would have kept at least one of them anyway, had there been any practical way of getting it back home. As it was, they went to some junk dealer. Very sad.
Paula