Re: throw away society

Ah! Now we know where Bonnie got her creative bent.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] throw away society


> Pam, if I remember right, the older albums were made from bakelite (sp?)
> rather than vinyl.  I have some that go back to Santa Bill's grandfather's
> old Victrola.  (We still have that, too.)  I wouldn't play vinyl on the
> Victrola for fear of tearing up the vinyl.  The old bakelite albums were
> also very brittle and broke easily.
>
> I remember when I was little and vinyl was replacing bakelite, mother
would
> take any of the broken or no longer used bakelite albums and set them in
the
> oven to soften them.  She shaped them into all sorts of pretty shapes and
> painted them.  Most became bowls for fruit or catch alls, but it sure was
> fun to watch her!
>
> Blessings,
> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
> Of Pamela J. Evans
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:38 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] throw away society
>
> I still have some albums and a record player. Some in mono too. The
> original recording of the Sound of Music and West Side Story are mono.
> Those albums are heavier than the newer ones too. Wonder why.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:44:43 EST
>
> >In a message dated 11/20/2003 8:24:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >mtalt@clubhouse-designs.com writes:
> >
> >> Annoys me no end that they are phasing out something that works
> >> perfectly well -
> >
> >Like LPs. Even audio tapes are becoming obsolete and replaced by CDs.  I
> >wanted to make some tapes for my new grandson from favorite old records,
> but my
> >son tells me they don't even have a tape player any more - it's all CDs.
I
>
> >guess it shows my age that I still have a record player - and even a few
> old 78s.
> >I guess my large collection of LPs may be collectibles, and I was
planning
> to
> >make tapes of some of the favorites, but if everything has to be on CD
> >nowadays, what's the use. Auralie
> >
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> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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