For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 24, 2014

You’re a Great people-person, Elly! ;)

She’s going through all the songs of that time.

I remember when I was a kid once my mother sat my brother (two years my senior) and me down and made us listen to some 78’s she had in the attic. We laughed our heads off. We were used to LP’s and ’45’s. (which to today’s kids would look something like CD’s only the LP’s were the size of frisbies and ’45’s were slightly bigger than CD disks. As for Elly making a friend of a stranger, this is the thing to do when you don’t know anyone, find someone else to hang around with.

I still have my father’s 78’s

Thanks. By the 80’s I wasn’t paying attention.

When my brothers and I were small we had some 78’s that were story records. We had the books that went with them and could follow along with the story. I can remember one about Hopalong Cassidy, one about Woody Woodpecker and one about animal noises that sound like real words. When we outgrew them, Mom gave them to the neighbors for their smaller children. I wish I had them now.

What’s with the Robe-like dresses? Looks more like a cult convention…

My Dad worked for Brunswick when they made records. We had a phonograph that played the thick Edison records as well as the thin ones. After Brunswick closed that section,the Brunswick men were recruited by Deca. Many went to NYC to work for them.This was in the late 1938-39’s. A lot of tables have turned since then.

“I’m a people”?