Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Music, and Performers
This was the spot of a man who loved music. I could tell by the spectacular display of guitars sprawled on a table out front on the lawn, the two banjos, the antique Edison phonographs,…
The huge black grand piano sat there like a good-looking man ensnaring me with a glance. My own eyes landed on it as soon as I walked into the furniture room at the auction house.…
The jukebox was like a grand old maestro curling its forefinger in a come-hither motion for me to check it out there on a landing outside the auction house. It was a big metal beast,…
The long row of phonographs looked like a collection gone bad. They were in various states of disrepair, they were dusty, and they were neglected. The auction house staff had laid them out side by…
Posted in Music, and Mystery Finds
“What do you think this is?” I asked, interrupting the two men chatting across from where I stood looking dumbfounded at an item on the floor at the auction house. They stopped their conversation, and one…
Posted in Music
When I usually come across a stack of albums at auction, I bypass them. That’s what I had done with about six boxes on a table at the front of the auction house. They’re too…
Posted in Carvings, collectibles, and Music
The tiki image seemed to be here, there, everywhere on the auction tables, and the breadth of them sparked a memory for one auction-goer. Rich’s aunts and uncles had drank from tiki cups and danced to the music…
“Fellas, everybody having a good time,” Fred Wesley called out. Yeah, the crowd cheered at the top of their voices. “Are you having a real good time,” he shouted through the cheers. “Ladies and gentlemen,…
Posted in Music
The musical instrument lying there on the auction table looked like a fat guitar. It had the right shape: large round curvy body at one end, an elongated neck at the other end with rows of strings…
A handful of old albums were discarded on the table, left behind by the auction-goer who had earlier won a box full of them. That happens pretty often at auction: a buyer wins a box…
