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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 290999" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>You'll never believe this but when I was a kid we had an old record player left over from when my mom was a young girl - it had a CRANK! You had to crank it up and it would play two or three '78 records before it started to slow down. And we had exactly TWO records! One was a symphony orchestra playing "The Nutcracker". The other was Gene Autry singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> We played them over and over. I can still remember how that thing sounded when it started slowing down during "Rudolph" ... poor Gene Autry going " .... haaaad aaaaaaa veeeeeery shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny noooooooooooooooose..."</p><p> </p><p>Later on, when we finally got a record player that actually ran on <em>electricity</em> ... those old ones just had a little spindle for the '78 records. When the '45's came out, they made these little plastic disk thingies that you had to put in the big hole so it would go on the spindle. And they had 'needles' that kept wearing out or picking up little miniature dust bunnies. We had to keep lifting the arm up to get the dust off the needle. Ah, the 'good ol' days' --- NOT!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 290999, member: 1883"] You'll never believe this but when I was a kid we had an old record player left over from when my mom was a young girl - it had a CRANK! You had to crank it up and it would play two or three '78 records before it started to slow down. And we had exactly TWO records! One was a symphony orchestra playing "The Nutcracker". The other was Gene Autry singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"! :happy: We played them over and over. I can still remember how that thing sounded when it started slowing down during "Rudolph" ... poor Gene Autry going " .... haaaad aaaaaaa veeeeeery shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny noooooooooooooooose..." Later on, when we finally got a record player that actually ran on [I]electricity[/I] ... those old ones just had a little spindle for the '78 records. When the '45's came out, they made these little plastic disk thingies that you had to put in the big hole so it would go on the spindle. And they had 'needles' that kept wearing out or picking up little miniature dust bunnies. We had to keep lifting the arm up to get the dust off the needle. Ah, the 'good ol' days' --- NOT! [/QUOTE]
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