TWantiques
05-24-2006, 10:43 PM
This past Friday, after striking out at the local the garage sales my son and I decided to follow up on a week old ad offering LP's for sale. Called the lady and she said they were not sold and we could come on over. Turned out to be only about 5 minutes from home.
Arrived to find they were in the process of moving and had decided they didn't want to take the records with them again. They had been in that house for 6 years and never unpacked the LP's from the last move. Down to the unfinished portion of the basement where there were 10 very heavy boxes stored on a long shelf that was taller than we are. Good thing my strong 18 year old was with me.
She told us they began buying records in the late 60's, all thru the 70's and into the early 80's while they lived in the San Francisco Bay area. As we pulled down the boxes and looked thru them we quickly saw these albums were like new, both the covers and vinyl. We have maybe 10 that were not like new. Turns out many of them were only played once right after they bought it. Never did get an exact count but somewhere between 600 and 700. Didn't take much negotiating to buy them all for $200.
Virtually every genre was included, just about every popular artist during that time. Every Beatles album (most were later pressings but several firsts), Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, 4 Tops, Three Dog Night, The Who, Steely Dan, Velvet Underground...I could go on and on. Haven't even looked at the 3 boxes of classical yet.
The Atlanta Record show was this past Sunday where my son and I set up and sell our duplicates and get in early to shop. We took a few boxes of those we knew we didn't want for our collection and they flew out. Because of the condition even the common albums found new homes. Before the show opened to the public we had made our initial investment back. By the end of the day we had sold nearly 200 of them.
Also, added a very nice group to our collection. BTW she even threw in a Sansui TT and I haven't even had a chance to look at it yet.
All and all a fun weekend that we figure will probably never be repeated.
Terry
Arrived to find they were in the process of moving and had decided they didn't want to take the records with them again. They had been in that house for 6 years and never unpacked the LP's from the last move. Down to the unfinished portion of the basement where there were 10 very heavy boxes stored on a long shelf that was taller than we are. Good thing my strong 18 year old was with me.
She told us they began buying records in the late 60's, all thru the 70's and into the early 80's while they lived in the San Francisco Bay area. As we pulled down the boxes and looked thru them we quickly saw these albums were like new, both the covers and vinyl. We have maybe 10 that were not like new. Turns out many of them were only played once right after they bought it. Never did get an exact count but somewhere between 600 and 700. Didn't take much negotiating to buy them all for $200.
Virtually every genre was included, just about every popular artist during that time. Every Beatles album (most were later pressings but several firsts), Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, 4 Tops, Three Dog Night, The Who, Steely Dan, Velvet Underground...I could go on and on. Haven't even looked at the 3 boxes of classical yet.
The Atlanta Record show was this past Sunday where my son and I set up and sell our duplicates and get in early to shop. We took a few boxes of those we knew we didn't want for our collection and they flew out. Because of the condition even the common albums found new homes. Before the show opened to the public we had made our initial investment back. By the end of the day we had sold nearly 200 of them.
Also, added a very nice group to our collection. BTW she even threw in a Sansui TT and I haven't even had a chance to look at it yet.
All and all a fun weekend that we figure will probably never be repeated.
Terry