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  1. Gilbey

    Are You Into Chains?

    I kinda like having gold on my neck, although not too gaudy or massive like some "drug kingpin" look. About 4 to 5mm width would do it for me. So I got me an 18K curb link chain at 20" length (5.2mm width; 17.8 grams). Nothin' to boast about (just one of my favorite accessory besides wearing a...
  2. Gilbey

    Not Just For Display

    ... but what vintage stuff do you have that are still fully operational? Here's mine that are over 50 yrs. old and still fully functional: (1) '57 Crosley Shelvador (2) '58 Thorens TD124 (3) '59 Garrard Laboratory Series Type A
  3. Gilbey

    Who Is She?

    I can't seem to get over this beautiful image from the 20's, but who is she?
  4. Gilbey

    My Wife Couldn't Stand My 78's!

    Music is the most evocative of all the arts and resides so warmly in the mind because it needs no basis of reality. It creates its own atmosphere that brings you into its world. For me, it is my 78's that brings me into this world of the golden era. Even though it may be before my time, I...
  5. Gilbey

    The Three Kings

    So what did you get from the Three Kings today? HUH?? you ask. I got two boxes of Walker's Shortbread cookies and two Resee's King Size bars. My wife and kids got their shares too (in their stockings). Yes, I grew up with that tradition when they come around the first week of January as...
  6. Gilbey

    I Like Playing Vintage

    I play most of my music with a record player. To me, it's a kinetic work of art just like a mechanical watch. I like watching it while it plays my music. And surprisingly, this Garrard Lab 80 sounds just as good as any CD player (if not better!). It made it's debut on November 1964 making it...
  7. Gilbey

    What If Money Can Buy ...

    With money comes power. Power to accumulate almost anything you lust to possess, with it also comes the power to bribe or corrupt. The power to heal or cure can also be derived by monetary means. Education as well, to better oneself is also attained through it. Our lifestyle revolves around...
  8. Gilbey

    Halloween Topic: Lost Souls

    http://www.gonetoosoon.org/find_memorial/cause__suicide/1/ I often visit the site to see who the "newcomers" are that joined the pack. Not that I am macabre in any fashion, but more of a deep sense of retrospection in me that brings about how the depravity of such acts can actually be...
  9. Gilbey

    What's With Smoking?

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  10. Gilbey

    Where & What Will You Be Doing On 12/21/2012?

    As for me and my wife, it's gonna be our 25th wedding anniversary. Plans for us are to be in Venice celebrating this occasion. As it's almost 3 yrs. away, you never know what's gonna happen if the inevitable does occur :eek...
  11. Gilbey

    Is DXing A Thing Of The Past?

    DXing is the art and science of listening to distant stations (D=distance X=xmitter or transmitter). Before the days of the internet, I used to have this Sony ICF 2010 shortwave radio that I listen to regularly. It was always exciting to look and hunt for those far away distant stations...
  12. Gilbey

    Show Us Your Time Capsuled Item!

    Is there some item you might have that has been stored for many decades then brought back to life out of storage and still in pristine condition? Well here is mine ... Time Capsuled from 1964: The Garrard Lab 80 - The World's First Automatic Transcription Turntable made in 1964. Out of...
  13. Gilbey

    Yesterday's Forgotten

    Snapshots of an era gone by. The people: their moments, their stories, and their lives are all too fleeting. Then it's all over and forgotten for the most part. Only but a few highlights are frozen forever in old photographs that tell us of what was once their stories. But who are they? For...
  14. Gilbey

    Scammed By Cash For Gold USA

    Their infomercial on TV was so convincing so I asked for their goldpak that I may send in my 14K class ring (worth $500), thinking that I might get some cash in a few days (since they've emphasized that they issue you a check within 24 hrs. after receiving your gold). That was Nov. 23 and up to...
  15. Gilbey

    Vintage Lust

    Is there any vintage thing that is tugging at your heart? Maybe it's unattainable or maybe you're still saving to get it? What is it that you really wanted to have? Mine is a Thorens TD 124. Truly a collector's classic masterpiece! This is a modular transcription turntable that you could...
  16. Gilbey

    Stretching It By Far

    In today's gas prices, I've thought of alternative ways to combat the high cost of fuel. First thought, maybe I'd just bike to work. Hey, it's only 20 miles one way. Twice would make it 40. No big deal, it'd just take me roughly 2 hrs. one way and it's good exercise. I could cancel my gym...
  17. Gilbey

    Things You Broke As A Child (You wish now you hadn't)

    As a child of 5 yrs. old back in 1969 when the old LP was in its heyday, my father had a top of the line automatic transcription turntable that was the Garrard Lab 80. Back then it was an esoteric turntable during its debut in 1964 when my father was among the first who got it. Didn't pay much...
  18. Gilbey

    A Mysterious Victrola

    This never happened before to my Victrola. It is located on top of an antique sewing machine in our office. Last week, one early morning about 5 am as I was just typing along some email on my computer, I heard the Victrola platter turned by itself (as if someone cranked it). I turned around...
  19. Gilbey

    The Connoisseur's Fudge Delight

    Yes, it's Valentine's month once again and what more loving gesture than to surprise your sweetie with a sweet morsel of luscious gourmet fudge that will melt in her mouth from Stephanie's Fabulous Fudge! Only made from the finest ingredients from wifey's secret recipe. The Fudge Lady has...
  20. Gilbey

    The Hors D'oevres Thread

    So what's your favorite horderves? Mine is the fried calamari. Nothing beats the taste of it. Goes well with any drink from Coke to Chardonnay. Just hits the spot! :)

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