{"id":1587,"date":"2013-02-01T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2013-02-01T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T19:44:42","slug":"the-voice-o-graph-recording-booths-of-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/2013\/the-voice-o-graph-recording-booths-of-the-1940s\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;VOICE-O-GRAPH&#8221; Recording Booths of the 1940s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/voiceograph2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1588\" title=\"voiceograph\" src=\"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/voiceograph2-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Audio Recording 78rpm\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/voiceograph2-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/voiceograph2.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Starting in the 1940s there were coin operated audio recording booths found at county fairs and other public assemblies. Most people reading this are probably thinking to themselves, &#8220;The 40s? Wasn&#8217;t that when T. Rex still roamed the earth and somebody was just thinking of inventing the wheel?&#8221; For twenty-five cents a person could step into the recording booth, drop in his or her quarter, and start recording a 3 minute message or sing a song recorded to a 78rpm record. These records were then mailed to friends and family who probably played them once and then stuck them in the closet to become a forgotten memory. Decades later adult children are finding these legacies and wondering what memories might lie underneath. Imagine the thrill they experience when they are able to hear mom and pops singing &#8220;Down in the Valley&#8221; with teenaged voices!<\/p>\n<p>You may have treasures such as these in your closet that you have forgotten about. Don&#8217;t let them become forgotten memories. Act today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about that hope chest in the attic or closet which holds things decades old left by mom and pops. You may have noticed old, dingy looking records with home-made labels that you assumed once held precious memories now lost to a day gone by. You may be surprised at what we are able to resurrect from these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29,31],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-legacy-media","category-lp-transfer-to-cd","tag-vintage-records-78rpm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wcardoneproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}