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 ...

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 ...

It was 1877 when Thomas Edison recorded the first words ever: “Mary had a little lamb.” Now, 118 years later, people including Don Gfell are briskly trading Edison’s and other antique phonographs.

Ethan Hatcher from Saturday Night On The Circle went on quite the adventure and he tells us all about it! Recently I traveled all the way to the suburbs of Chicago to acquire this somewhat scarce ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The day has arrived: All the little ones look for their gifts from Santa and the older folks breathe a sigh of accomplishment. Special celebrations create traditions. Great job, ...

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 ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...