Hey, I can’t find the clutch on this thing. Piano rebuilder Paul Revenko-Jones of Music of the Spheres Pianoworks (Chicago Industrial Bulletin, May/June): “There are 11,000 to 12,000 parts in a piano. That’s more parts than there are in a car.”
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We support the circulator. We have always supported the circulator. Dennis Constant in Taxnews (Summer): “In 1947, the Chicago Tribune, which editorialized against trolley systems on page one, quoted George W. Barton, a traffic engineer and consultant, as saying, ‘The principal objection to the street car is that it is an obstacle in the middle of the street where it is desirable to have the traffic move rapidly. The bus, on the other hand, operates next to the curb and leaves outer traffic lanes open for uninterrupted traffic flow.’ Now, almost 50 years later, the Chicago Tribune is supporting this boondoggle, and the firm Barton co-founded, Barton-Aschmann Associates, is recommending this trolley as the ‘preferred alternative.’ The smell of bacon is obviously too strong to resist!”
The persistence of platters. Charlie Edwards of Reckless Records on North Broadway tells Illinois Entertainer (July): “I’m continually surprised at how much vinyl we do sell….We will sell twice as many vinyl copies of the new Sonic Youth than we will sell CDs.”
