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Post by gremashlo on May 11, 2009 11:32:57 GMT -5
I mourn.
The Omaha antique store that offers the bales of 20 45's at $5 a pop is closing at the end of the month.
While I had pretty much shopped it out, it did offer several different booths that each had their own various collections, and often they would bring in new items for sale--sadly, by the end of May it will be gone.
It is almost like a close family member was moving away...
Now, WHERE am I gonna go for 45 purchases? I could always count on that place for finding at least a few interesting purchases that made the stop worthwhile...
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Post by H2IZCOOL on May 11, 2009 12:18:13 GMT -5
I mourn. The Omaha antique store that offers the bales of 20 45's at $5 a pop is closing at the end of the month. While I had pretty much shopped it out, it did offer several different booths that each had their own various collections, and often they would bring in new items for sale--sadly, by the end of May it will be gone. It is almost like a close family member was moving away... Now, WHERE am I gonna go for 45 purchases? I could always count on that place for finding at least a few interesting purchases that made the stop worthwhile... I feel your pain, Grem. I have gone through similar situations over the years with record stores with used record bins, flea markets, antique stores, record shows and even salvation army-type establishments. There were several of each I used to frequent near home or on travel to get my 45s. They have basically all disappeared. One of the best of them was a big ol' dark, dilapitated warehouse type building not far from my mother-in-laws in the Wilkes Barre, PA area where people rented booths or other nooks and crannies to sell their used wares. Any weekend we were up visiting I'd spend my Sunday mornings wandering through that building (plus also visiting another flea market or two that was not far away) burrowing through piles of durty, dusty grime-covered 45s. Then about 15 years a go or so, they tore the building down and built one of those 24-hour health care places. Yeeeesh! What a waste! ;D  BTW Grem, when you'd get a bale of 20 or so records for $5, were you able to look through the bale to see what was in there, or did you have to just buy the 20 and hope for the best? |
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Post by Dawn on May 11, 2009 15:55:50 GMT -5
While vinyl LPs seem to be making a comeback of sorts, 45s appear to be a dying breed.
About the only place I see a good-sized assortment of 45s these days is the Pasadena City College record fair, and even that isn't much compared to the number of LPs and CDs they generally have for sale. Most of the Goodwill-type stores don't put 45s out on the floor, but if they do, it's usually only a handful of them, and they're often too scratched up to be worth buying.
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Post by gremashlo on May 12, 2009 12:08:23 GMT -5
BTW Grem, when you'd get a bale of 20 or so records for $5, were you able to look through the bale to see what was in there, or did you have to just buy the 20 and hope for the best? Luckily, they were wrapped up not TOO tightly, so you could check them through...many were just bound with twine or yarn. However, some of their more recent batches used plastic zip ties that really made it a challenge!  I found a record store that actually offers old 45's in Omaha, but at a considerably higher price...ah, what we must endure... |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on May 12, 2009 13:10:48 GMT -5
BTW Grem, when you'd get a bale of 20 or so records for $5, were you able to look through the bale to see what was in there, or did you have to just buy the 20 and hope for the best? Luckily, they were wrapped up not TOO tightly, so you could check them through...many were just bound with twine or yarn. However, some of their more recent batches used plastic zip ties that really made it a challenge! I found a record store that actually offers old 45's in Omaha, but at a considerably higher price...ah, what we must endure... I've never really understood the philosophy of trying to make someone buy a bale - or box - or bushel of 45s unless it's an absurdly low price. The only people who are going to buy 45s these days are collectors, and I don't see too many people wiling to spend $5 for 20 unseen 45s, where most 45s these days in the bins are not even worth close to the 50 cents per record youd be spending. The only time I ever bought somewhat sight unseen records was one time at a flea market when I found a huge box of 45s - maybe 300 or so records, and started to look through them. I had maybe looked at 10 or 15 records and had found 3 or 4 I wanted and the guy says to me that since it's late in the day, he'd sell me the whole box for $5. A question though -- back when I used to collect actively, the used 45s market was flooded with DJ copies, mainly of songs/artists you'd never have heard of. Often I'd find a bin with so many of those, that it wasn't even worth looking through them. -- But these days, I would guess that when you DO find used 45s, there wouldn't be much of those any more. I'd figure that most of the really worthless records would have long been discarded, land-filled, whatever, and these days most of what you'll find are hit records, but probably, as Dawn said, in poor condition. True or not? |
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Post by gremashlo on May 13, 2009 11:33:56 GMT -5
A question though -- back when I used to collect actively, the used 45s market was flooded with DJ copies, mainly of songs/artists you'd never have heard of. Often I'd find a bin with so many of those, that it wasn't even worth looking through them. -- But these days, I would guess that when you DO find used 45s, there wouldn't be much of those any more. I'd figure that most of the really worthless records would have long been discarded, land-filled, whatever, and these days most of what you'll find are hit records, but probably, as Dawn said, in poor condition. True or not? Lately, I've been finding a LOT of DJ promos, but they are of non-hits or from small independent labels that came and went quickly...but, even then I find a label or an artist that interests me--even though there's no real value besides curiosity or being unusual. My "box" story was from when I was teaching in western Nebraska (no, that is not an oxymoron, but in regards to being in the middle of nowhere we were quite close to it!) and we went to a garage sale--much of the sale was a shed FILLED with boxes of 1950's/60's albums, and a box with about 300-400 45's. It turned out that the woman doing the sale had a nephew who lived with her, and had his record collection at her home--well, he died, and no one in his family wanted them. AT first, she wanted $1 per single, and $5 per album--and of course no one was buying them. So, when she saw me looking through the 45's (and drooling, as the collection was incredible--her nephew was a serious collector, and she had no clue just what he had left her), she said, "No one wants them--what will you pay me for the whole box?" Not wanting to be excessively cheap, I said, "Twenty dollars," thinking she'd refuse; she replied, "Take 'em." The Goldmine value of the box load is over $2000. I just wonder what kind of sale my daughters will have when I shuffle off this mortal coil... |
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Post by daniel on May 27, 2009 15:41:28 GMT -5
I found scads of promo 45's at the local St. Vincent's, most of them being middling chart Country titles. A lot I bought simply because the title/label were interesting, such as the 60's era Bell label I posted on my flickr page. I don't think I found anything quite like your haul, though... wow!
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Post by m c dornan on May 28, 2009 18:40:56 GMT -5
Gremashlo:
"I just wonder what kind of sale my daughters will have when I shuffle off this mortal coil..."
Bond studied the crowd at Sotheby's intently. He knew two agents of QUANTUM would be using coded bids to communicate with each other. If only Gremashlo had left some clue! Which 45s did Quantum want? And why? Could the British Treasury afford to outbid his fabulously wealthy opponents? It was times like these that Bond pondered resigning from the Service...
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