#record console

[thriftsifter]

Probably the best thrifting find Ive ever made, a Voice of Music Record Player Console Model 1804. Everything you see here cost me $6.50. :)

I found it at one of my favorite local thrift stores with a sign that said, 'Broken. Needle won't connect. $10!' So, I grabbed one of the records out of their bins, opened it up, and tried to figure out what was wrong with it.

After some fiddling around, I noticed the center spindle had a mechanism stopping the record from completely falling onto the platter.

I had never seen a Record Changer before, and presumably, neither had the owners of the thrift store. :)

After I knew it wasn't broken, I claimed the tag and brought it up to purchase, just to find out that all furniture is 50% off that day. :)

So, I took it home and started fiddling with the mechanics, watching videos on how to operate a record changer, how the dials worked, etc... (as I only had modern record players at home at the time.)

Then I looked online for information on replacement parts in case I ever needed them for repair, as I really wanted to make this a lifelong investment.

Luckily, there's a wonderful man running a website all about Voice of Music brand record players, and he has a list of every model made by the company! But I couldn't find much information on my model, other than it is listed as 'for Sperry & Hutchinson'.

So, I messaged the owner of the website for information on my model, and this is what he sent back to me.

(Along with a manual for my model and a list of replacemt parts he offers.)

So I have a 1 of 500, sold only by one company, record console that cost 62... books?

Then I started looking in the Sperry & Hutchinson Company and what a 'book' was, exactly. They were a company that partnered with department stores, giving 'green stamps' as a reward when certain dollar amounts were spent in the dept store. You would collect these stamps and redeem them for... just about anything.

I was able to find a single S&H Green Stamps Catalog on the internet archives, unfortunately not the catalog with my record player being advertized, but still a very interesting look. They really offered everything in exchange for these stamps.

Later, I found some of these books for sale at a different antiques store.

The lady that ran the antiques store gave me a 20 min long lesson on how the books worked and how the stamps had different values, like these being 10 dollar stamps. She even had one of the dispensers for the stamps for sale, and she showed me how it worked. :)

Plus, because it was made in 1970, it is compatible with the original 78 sized records! The same shop that sold me the record player also had a bunch of 78s and a sign that said '20 records for $1', so I sifted through and found any titles I knew plus any titles that sounded fun, like this song here 'I Need Attention Bad' by Earnest Tubb. :)

[leqclerc]

Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc shake hands in parc ferme post-race at the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring on June 30, 2019

[iguessitme]

I think when speaking about wirdest video game controlers ,ones for Ameprod TVG-10 need to be included. It was a first-generation home video game console produced in Poland in years 1978-1981 by Elwro and it looked like this :

I had a chamce to play on it and the controlers are perfect for Pong i must say

heres a shitty video of me playing :

[parryperi]

I really do love watching the character interactions in this game...

[ave-immaculata]

Thinking about how St. Joseph's words of reassurance and encouragement that Jesus would be returned to their care when they left Him behind at the temple probably came to Mary's mind following His bitter Passion, reminding her to hold onto the hope of His promise.

[metfell]

i love fish smokers and challenge bait so much this is awesome

[robo-dino-puppy]

if you want to see how i got to the field with the tree from aloy's dream, here's a quick video!

[lady-merian]

saw a centipede crawl under my bed last night. Somehow fell asleep anyway. Unfortunately it’s all I’m thinking about right now as I prepare to fall asleep again.

[mybraindumpsterfire]

Spooky Week is Coming!

Now I’m curious how Dan and Phil are going to handle spooky week as I am hoping they play some actually spooky games. However, they’ll be touring during spooky week which I’m wondering how they plan to handle that scheduling so I pose the question: have they pre-recorded spooky week when they were at home before coming to North America, they are going to film in hotel rooms/the tour phus, or they do fewer videos that they upload for spooky week to lessen their load. What do you think?

[criticalrolo]

heard that gale is a pathetic sopping wet wizard who Is Going To Fucking Magically Explode and. im buying a ps5 I need him

[blaiddfailcam]

Separate Ways: Chapter 4 – Ramparts, Garden

[talos-stims]

source

[holdoncallfailed]

this is silly but it still seriously makes me so happy whenever my best friend refers to ME as HER best friend like meeeee?? lil ol me???? what an honor

[mellonyheart]

I just love (sarcastic) how some of the Obey Me fandom thinks they're fashion experts.

Apparently Solomon's masquerade outfit is ugly and doesn't suit him at all and looks like it was meant for Asmo. (Gotta love that casual Asmo hate.)

Welp... I'm apparently going to try to get Solomon's masquerade outfit because not only does it look good on him but it has the added benefit of hiding his face under a lovely mask. I can't believe I'm doing all this work for a character I don't like. X is an awful place full of awful takes. The things I put myself through for more Mammon fan stuffs.....

On the plus side I have never felt so confident about my own sense of fashion. I always felt kinda weird about liking most of Obey Me's outfits because I always see people saying that they're ugly or unfashionable but now I know it's because those people just have no taste. Yay for learning new things!

[little-red-fool]

This is probably a given but when DS2 comes out y’all aren’t seeing me for two weeks.

[ghostoffuturespast]

NCX Launch Pad 3