Lost Treasures (was: Cray-1)

From: Jeff Kaneko <Jeff.Kaneko_at_ifrsys.com>
Date: Thu Apr 30 09:56:50 1998

> At 17:30 29-04-98 +0000, Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:
> >Doug:
> >
> >> Is the reason those old radio/phonograph boxes are not being thrown
> >> away is that noone notice the cover and thinks it's just a pretty
> >> dresser w/o drawers :)? Also hideaway sewing machines.
> >
> >:-) I doubt it...
> >
> >The real crime is those who buy sewing machines with pedestals and
> >treadles, throw away the sewing machine and turn the pedestal into an
> >olde worlde iron framed coffee table. I am told by a friend in the
> >trade that this is v. common.
>
> There were folks who took a late-20's/early 30's radio which was built into
> a beautiful wooden cabinet and turned it into a piece of furniture by
> gutting it. Then there were the late 40's and early 50's TV cabinets which
> met the same fate. At least I've rescued several of each of these kinds of
> receivers for my collection.

Then there was this girl I was dating while I lived in Baltimore in
the early 80's. Her dad had a vintage (early 20th cent.)'magneto'
(u-crank-it) telephone he mounted on the wall in their basement as a
conversation piece. He felt it was 'too heavy' so before mounting
it he gutted the thing. So many historic relics have been destroyed
in the name of 'interior decoration'.

Jeff
Received on Thu Apr 30 1998 - 09:56:50 BST