Storytime! This was my mom's Victrola. It's an old-timey record player. She died recently and I decided I wanted to keep this. Recently I found a place for it in my house.
This old thing belonged to my uncle, my mother's eldest brother, before he passed away in the 1990s. My mom claimed it and I used to listen to old records on it when I was a teenager. There are heaps of records my uncle collected--primarily orchestral pieces, big band, swing, and of course polka. My favorite EXTREMELY CREEPY polka record was called the "Open the Door Polka." I listened to it multiple times with family and friends and wtf-ed over its weirdness. I even made a cassette-tape recording of it by holding my boom box up to the record. Because, ya know, we were very technologically advanced in those days.
I was just going through the records, finally incorporating them into storage spaces in my house (even bought a new shelf to put some of them on). As I leafed through them to try to find any order and find homes for orphaned records, I was hoping to come across my old fave "Open the Door Polka." Well, I found it.
IT'S BROKEN.
The record is cracked!!
I'm so disappointed. I wanted to listen to my old fave and be creeped out all over again.
Feel free to listen to it as there are certainly surviving recordings. CW: Creepy man harassing and pressuring a woman to open her door to him.
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“Polka dancing at the Gibbon Ballroom in Gibbon, Minnesota. It was headquarters for Gibbon Polka Days, four days of dancing to both German and Polish Polkas. The event attracted dancers from throughout the upper Midwestern states. Polka dancing is an old New Ulm tradition which has regained popularity with young and old after a decline in the 1950s and 60s. More than 20 professional Polka-Waltz bands have formed and worked out of New Ulm since the 1930s.”
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