We're going to have a fleemarket at Grorud, Oslo this weekend, we have it twice a year as a fundraising event for the school orchestra. It's lots and lots of work, but at least it's useful work. In the weeks before the market we're collecting junk that people give away, then on Friday we're preparing and unpacking. My wife is also baking cakes and making dough for waffles.
We've been collecting all kinds of junk in containers, here we've just moved the two smallest into the school yard to make it easier to empty them. Grorud church in the background.
In this classroom I'm going to have the department for electrics, tools and other things that don't fit into the other departments.
We get in quite many weird things. Some things are even brand new or unused, some things are just old enough to be really worthless, some things are old enough to be really valuable. I guess this one is in the latter category:
It seems to work, but unfortunately we couldn't find any 78 rpm records to play on it. This seems to be an original player, we had another one a year ago but it was a modern-built replica. That time we did test it, and I found it really amazing, it was far louder than what I had expected. Remember, those devices are totally unplugged, no electric amplification, no energy except for the handcranked wind-up-energy.
At the other end, we have things like this ... we could as well have thrown it at once, it's not going to be sold.
Still quite some mess. Usually we're quite done sorting things at this time of the day, but I was working alone most of the time, so things have been going slowly.
This is also a think of the past ... but we may be lucky enough that some retro-lover will come and buy it
My youngest daughter is also helping putting the lamps in the lamp section
Personally I really love this series ... and this one is red! Back in the early 80s, almost everyone had one of those, exactly the same model, but usually grey. No power needed, except for what's coming from the thin phone wires. The ring voltage was actually quite high, I remember I was doing some "work" on the phone wires as a child, and got a hefty electric jolt when someone was calling at the wrong time. I'm not sure if it's still working, but the last working grey phone I had I took to St. Petersburg, and we still used it there for local calls around 2005.
This phone follows Norwegian and international standards, but actually the Oslo-standard was different! The turning table starts with 9 and ends with 0 at Oslo phones! That's pretty insane.
Now it's past 22:00 already, and kids aren't in bed yet. We'll continue tomorrow early morning. I hope we'll get time to make it orderly and nice here before the customers comes and mess up things again.
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