Uncle Gregs' Victrola

During this horrible ice storm that Oklahoma had this past week(pics coming later). We all had to go in and stay with my aunt and uncle for heat. With so much family all in one house, the stories were rolling left and right. Some new, some not so new. Then dad said something to Uncle Greg about the slef that had been sitting by the kitchen door. At which point Uncle Greg told him that was the victrola he had been talking about.

This is the top of the lid. Uncle Gregs Dad bought this at a garage sale when he came back from Vitenam for 15.00. It sat in his grandma's basement for years, and during the holidays, he would go down to the basement drink his grandmas wine and listen to the Victrola. I think some of the records had a little old wine on them still! LOL! He keeps his favorite record on it all the time. It's called "If I'd had known you where coming I'd a baked a cake." I absolutly loved it as well as everyone else.



This is it! All opened up. On the bottom right are the speakers. Storage for all the records on the left, with a drawer above that and a mock drawer across from it.










It still has the Orgianal insturction manuel. Along with a list of all the Victor Records you could by. Amoung all the paper work was an electric bill for 1932 for $2.52. Sorry I forgot to snap a picture of it.











At one point the Uncle Greg said that they where not going to make the needles for the Victrola anymore so his dad bought a whole bunch of them so that he would have them.
It was quite a treat to sit around and think about what people way back when where doing when they listen to the Jazz music or even Cry cry cry, by Johnny cash. There where a few in there like that. But most where old Victor Records.