I used to collect LPs of the music that I grew up with. I probably had more than a thousand at one time. Still 
have several hundred. But I never was in the same league as Larry Kmetz, who has up to 30,000 LPs and 45s. He has devoted whole rooms in his house to his collection. Kmetz told Alecia Warren of the Coeur d'Alene Press: “This is not a dead issue by any stretch of the imagination,” said Larry, who still DJs, and talks of the days he owned a record store with Polly in Los Angeles. “It's a dead issue with the public, yes. But if you go to these records shows, people come from all over the world to buy this type of material.” More here. (Shawn Gust Press photo: Larry Kmetz is an avid record collector of early rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll with tens of thousands of vinyl albums in his collection)
Question: Do you have any 45s or LPs in your home? What type of music? Do you plan to get rid of them?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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