Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

REDLANDS – Curtiss Allen Sr. demonstrated his love of phonographs at the December meeting of the Breakfast Club of Redlands. That love began when he was 3 years old, Allen said, with a windup ...

DENVER — Whenever Gary Stone receives a delivery at his Denver home, history usually arrives. "From a historical perspective, the radios, the TVs, the phonographs, all are just so fascinating to me ...

Tonight, we meet two collectors, one from Manchester who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another from Rumney with a world-class collection of working Edison cylinder phonographs that date back to the ...

Steve Thoren has turned his home into a virtual museum of Elgin artifacts and other period pieces. Decorated with old clocks, Depression glass, old phonographs, and more recently, the contents of a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection was donated to the National Museum of American History by Mrs. Joseph Schillinger (Frances) and transferred to the Archives Center ...

Collector Mark Caruana-Dingli has spent years searching out musical antiques to restore and add to his collection. Like most collectors, Mark naively set out to obtain just one, which quickly became ...

Ron Babb, of Tacoma, a former Boeing engineer, buys and repairs old clocks, player pianos and phonographs from the early 1900s. He also collects scary mechanical monkeys, pocket typewriters, and ...