The Resting Place.

[bigtiller]

You guys have me questioning my own memory.
The folks had a lot of 78's back then and very few 45's.
I remember the big black rounds being scattered all over the room during a long listening session.
So maybe my childhood memory was wrong.
It wouldn't be the first time...or probably the last either.

 

[Torvy]

We had 2- 78s growing up. Both were Japanese from when dad was there fighting the Communists in Korea. (He was a courier and back and forth between the 2 countries a good deal.) We also had some good stereo equipment for the time. A real-to-real player. (I remember we had some Glen Campbell on RtR). It had a port for 8 tracks, too. We didn't have any that I recall, but friends did.

Older sisters had maybe 20- 45s. We had a handful of popular 33s. The folks had maybe 50 from Christmas and kids music to Pat Boone and such.

 

[WinterDeere]

You guys have me questioning my own memory.
The folks had a lot of 78's back then and very few 45's.
I remember the big black rounds being scattered all over the room during a long listening session.
So maybe my childhood memory was wrong.
It wouldn't be the first time...or probably the last either.

We had some odd RPM records for our old Victrola, some at 78 rpm and some way down at 16.6 rpm. I seem to recall there was even a setting to run the thing up around 90 rpm, but I don't think we had any records cut to run at that speed.

By the time I was buying records ca.1980, everything was either 33.3 (LP's) or 45 (singles) RPM. I think the others really fell off in popularity, after the very early days of record production.

 

[rontaki]

Wow... never imagined I'd see a day when that required explaining. But here we are... 2025!

On the same note, we still have a 1940's rotary phone in our kitchen. It's fun to watch my kids' friends pick up the handset and try to figure out how to dial it. Heck, some don't even know you need to pick up the handset before dialing!

Whenever I hear a song that references "waiting by the phone for a call", I wonder what goes through a contemporary kid's head when they hear it.

edited for typos and clarity

 

[MossRoad]

You guys have me questioning my own memory.
The folks had a lot of 78's back then and very few 45's.
I remember the big black rounds being scattered all over the room during a long listening session.
So maybe my childhood memory was wrong.
It wouldn't be the first time...or probably the last either.

My dad's aunt was in the USO in WWII. She was a singer and we had a couple 78s of her songs. We also had a lot of Hungarian music on 78s. My grandparents would play them at their lake cottage.

 

[MossRoad]

Malcom Jamal Warner (Theo, from the Cosby Show) passed away at age 54 from drowning in Costa Rica while on vacation with his family. From several sources he got caught in a rip current. Too young.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 'Cosby Show' actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning

Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department said Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

apnews.com

 

[WinterDeere]

Watch the episode when he got an earring, and was trying to hide it from his father. Or the bus driver / "regular job" episode, sometime. That kid was great in both.

Another gem was when he had his sister Denise sew a designer shirt for him.

 

[Snobdds]

Momma...he's coming home.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1947722558402441722

 

[NHBX]

I guess he did his last show and said good enough.

they seem to be dropping left and right, pretty soon only Kieth Richards will be left lol.

 

[dodge man]

Yep, the Crazy Train has pulled into the station.