Cape Karen
I love antiques, and so I always try to watch Antiques Roadshow on PBS, on Monday nights. A few months ago they featured a record album cover from the 1960's - an original Beatle's album cover, valued for its artwork. (I can't recall which one it was. Perhaps, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?")
Anyway, they said it is now valued at over $100,000.00.
You've got to be kidding! We used to have all their albums.
Lots and lots of them, as a matter of fact.
(This was their first album cover)
In 1963, my then husband-to-be, Steve, and I, bought a business; a popular record shop called, "The Record Room," that was located on West Main Street in Hyannis, from our friend Dick Craig. Steve's parent's had a fit that we were even considering doing such a thing, because we were newly married, only in our 20's and dead broke - but, youth has no fear, so we jumped at the chance.
Steve was the sort of guy that everyone liked. Handsome and personable, he endeared himself to our customer's from the start. Steve also had an uncanny ability to remember names.
Summertime increased the population of Hyannis, and many vacationer's and summer residents would return to The Record Room to shop every year. Someone who hadn't come into the store but once or twice, and perhaps not for two years, would be greeted upon their return with, "Hi George! How's Barbara, Allison and Peter doing? Peter must be in his second year at Boston College now, right?"
People would be rendered speechless that he had remembered not only their names, but the names of their children and other trivia they may have shared with him briefly. (Me, I can't remember what day it is half the time.)
Steve also seemed to know ahead of time who would be the upcoming popular recording artists. Even before the US embraced the Beatles, Steve had stocked-up on their first album from England. He also bought all of their other albums, including, I'm sure, the one that was featured on the Antiques Roadshow program as a valuable antique; now, some 42 years later. (How did that happen so fast? It seems like it was only Yesterday :)
But, where o' where could it be?
In someone's attic, or in someone's basement storage room, is an old Beatle's album cover that is now worth over $100,000.00.
Karen, if you read this, you'd better start digging! I know you've kept everything you ever had from your teenage years; I saw all your high school prom dresses, I saw all those 45 rpm records, and you even told me that you still have the clump of grass we dug up as a "keepsake" of a crush in 1956-57 (?)from Jimmy Drake's lawn. Silly us!
Good god, girl. . . you've just gotta have that album and cover, somewhere?!?
(And to think that we laughed at you for being such a 'pack rat.')
Waaaah!
Posted by Karen at September 26, 2005 10:02 PM