Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Music, Performers, and Records
Did you see the Ray Charles record player on the auction website? my auction buddy Janet emailed me. “I didn’t know such a thing existed.” I had not, and neither did I. So I dutifully…
When I saw the ink outline of two musicians on the auction website, I immediately looked for a signature on the drawing. It was signed “David Stone Martin,” and somewhere deep in my mind, I…
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…
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…
Posted in collectibles, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Records
Sometimes at auction, I’ll buy a box lot of stuff without even having checked it out. Usually, there’s something neat tucked down in the bottom, maybe of little valuable but interesting anyway. That happened a…
Posted in Performers, and Records
The first time I saw the comedian Redd Foxx was at a club at the foot of the Las Vegas Strip at a time when the strip ended. He was smoking his trademark cigarette and…
