The St. Vincent de Paul store in Wheeling, WV, has some rather unusual records for sale, for all of $.25 each.
My most unusual find is “Short Stories of O. Henry” read by Robert Donley. It’s a set of two 12″ LPs that run at 16 2/3 RPM. This was the first time I’ve ever run into LPs that play at this speed. I remember my dad’s record player had the speed as an option back in the 1970s, and by that time such records were already out of print. A quick check of Ebay shows them to be quite rare–maybe 8 or 9 sets for sale, and many of them 7″ records.
I looked at the set and thought for a moment. Although I don’t have that speed on my record player, I could play the records at 33 1/3 and transfer them into the computer. Then, I could reduce the speed by 50%. I did this with the free program Audacity, and it worked great!
It was an excellent $.50 investment.