LPs – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:44:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Bridgeport, CT Circa 1964 https://www.preservationsound.com/bridgeport-ct-circa-1964/ https://www.preservationsound.com/bridgeport-ct-circa-1964/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:25:02 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5357 Today: From “Easy Guide To Stereo HiFi,” 1964, ed. Robert Mayfield: a short pictorial on the subject of ‘How a record is made.’  Nothing too exciting here; I am reproducing this primarily because the plant shown in the article is none other than the Bridgeport, CT Columbia Records plant.  As I’ve mentioned before, this building is still standing; it is now ‘loft condos.’  The BPT Columbia plant was, AFAIK, the first facility in the world to manufacture 33rpm LP records;  SCULLY, America’s top  manufacturer of LP cutting lathes, was located a dozen blocks away, along the same train tracks that today still serve  commuters, dotted with idled freight cars resting on derelict short-ends of tracks strewn throughout the East End.

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