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26-OCT-2011 Coleen Perilloux Landry

The Talking Machine

The label is just as bright as I'm sure it was over 100 years ago when it was purchased.
My grandmother played her Enrico Caruso records and the Strauss waltzes on this for us.
When I was little, my mother left me for a few days while she helped my sister with her first newborn. My father didn't know what to do with me, so he constantly wound up the Victrola and played the waltzes for three days.
My father's generation (he was born in 1892) did not participate in child care as some of the men do today. I have no doubt in my mind that he did not know how to change a diaper or where to even look for one in the house.

Canon EOS 40D
1/60s f/5.6 at 80.0mm iso1000 full exif

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Ed Preston27-Oct-2011 00:23
I remember one that my family had over 60 years ago and we might have had some Caruso, but I remember a ditty about a guy and his girl friend and she was so big he would go around her a hugging and a chalking! Just wish I could remember more of it! Anyway I'll bet this still works! Thanks for the memories Coleen!