Short
stories and memories related to the Phonograph by Friends
of the Phonograph
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Axel
Boilesen - 2000
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The
Edison Amberola - The Jolly Coppersmith, Cotesfield,
NE
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Betty
Ann Barr Boilesen - 2000
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Playing
School - My first memory of the Phonograph, Elba, NE
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Doug
Boilesen - 2001
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The
"Our Song" Phenomenon - Red River Rock,
Lincoln NE
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James
Boilesen - 2018
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I
am a Friend of the Phonograph
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Peter
Buffett - 2010
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Excerpt
from his book, Life Is What You Make It, about
music and technology (and an early repair he made on
the family phonograph)
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Hawthorne
School - 1998
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Second
graders learn about the Phonograph, Hawthorne Elementary
School, Lincoln, NE
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Garrison
Keillor - 2017
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Memories
of bringing my LP to our youth church group so that
they could listen to Handel's Messiah.
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Douglas
Keister - 2007
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A
Field Report on Obsessive Phonograph Collecting Disorder
Submitted by Douglas Keister HSD AAC
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Andy
Orlando - 2009
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Our
phonograph in Dos Palos, California, and other memories
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Judy
Orlando - 2018
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Memories
of growing up, music and the phonograph
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Fionn
Regan - 2007
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An
Irish singer-songwriter recalls growing up with record
sleeves but no record player, Dublin, Ireland
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Tom
Rivett - 2013
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A
boy's voice from 1954 lost and found, Lincoln, NE by
Cindy Lange-Kubick, The Lincoln Journal-Star
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Judy
Steffes - 2015
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Memories
of growing up in West Bend, WI, with the family phonograph
in the dining room.
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| First
Radio-Phonograph 1949 |
Details
of Axel & Betty's first Radio-Phonograph 1949 |
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The Axel and Betty Boilesen Legacy Collection |
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Phonographicmemory.org
is dedicated to examining and celebrating the human
experience as framed by music through vinyl records.
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Phonographic
Memory blog - Watch reorganizing Record Albums (autobiographically)
scene from High Fidelity
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In
Memory of Friend's of the Phonograph
Betty
Ann Barr Boilesen - 2000
Bob
Gross - 2003
Lawrence
Brown - 2006
Carie
2009
Axel
Christian Boilesen - 2013
Andy
Orlando 2018
Every man's memory is his private literature.
- Aldous Huxley
It's surprising how much memory is built
around things unnoticed at the time. - Barbara Kingsolver,
Animal Dreams
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
- William Faulkner
"When an old person dies, a library burns."
African proverb revived by Malian writer Amadou Hampaté Ba
Memory is a way of holding onto the things
you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.-
From the television show The Wonder Years
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
- Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand
To speak the name of the dead is to make
them live again - Ancient Egyptian Belief
WIthin our hearts, the ones we love are never
really gone - In spirit and in memory, their legacy lives on.
- Hallmark
All those moments will be lost in time...like
tears in rain. - The Blade Runner
...She cannot fade, though thou hast not
thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love and she be fair! - John
Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
"You and I have memories longer than the
road that stretches out ahead" - Lennon/McCartney, Two
of Us, 1969
A story is what holds us together, and what
is left when we leave - Marshall Dodge, The New Yorker,
Oct 22, 1979
"The backward look transforms its object...History
cannot be touched without changing it." Siegfried Giedion
"I like the old days, but not all the days,
only the good old days" - Departure, The Long Winters
Friends of the Phonograph Copyright © 2001-2018
by Doug Boilesen and Phonographia
