Pieces that stand the test of time and keep their beauty and value are highlighted in this month’s collectibles. From art to furniture and decorative items, it’s a nice selection that gives us a ...

MONTESANO — In Bob Carter’s private museum of phonographs and radios, shelves are crowded with the technology of the past. Glass vacuum tubes peek out from between wooden panels, burnished metal and ...

Ed Fearing placed a shellac composite record on his 1905 Victor phonograph. He cranked the handle, and “Poet and Peasant Overture” began, at first a little slow and distorted, then quickly catching up ...

WELLSBURG (AP) — Burdette Walters is known for his eclectic taste in antiques. He owns and operates the Friesian House Museum in his hometown of Wellsburg, population 700. He is a fan of early ...

Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its ...

Everybody has a story, but sometimes you need the right media to hear it properly. Thanks to friendly offers from a couple of strangers — an Oregon record shop owner and a loyal Columbian subscriber — ...

Years before radios and televisions were the source of entertainment in most living rooms across the country, families gathered around non-electric, crank-wound gramophones and phonographs to enjoy ...

As even Brad Paisley has pointed out, we live today in something like the future. The past few years of continuously shrinking computers and continuously growing cities seem to suggest that he might ...

(JTA) — Folk musician and record archivist Nathan Salsburg lives on a 40-acre former tree farm in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, with fellow songwriter Joan Shelley. Shelley is not Jewish, but ...