ryan's vintage appliances
Tribute to Joe & Odell Thompson
With Grady Martin on guitar
Do compare the three featured 100 year old HiFi's 1921 Silvertone. 1916 Victrola, 1926 Brunswick. (The 23' Victrola has been moved to parts/repair status- I never liked how the small cast iron horn sounded, but I can easily reassemble it.)
Some say I live in a museum. I suppose that is true, but unlike most museums-everything works! I like to experiment with culinary arts and play rare vintage records, and instruments, and listen to my antique radios, and modify my 50 year old drag racer and keep all the vintage appliances running smoothly. I have interest in heirloom seeds, organic gardening, folklore. traditional lifeways, and a host of other lost traditions. I plant by the signs that my grandparents used. I was once a certified organic farmer. I hope you learn something useful or just enjoy watching an autistic person go about their daily routines in their living museum. In another life I was a post-graduate level educator. In another life before that I was a consultant for historic preservation, In another life before that I was an ethnomusicologist and folklorist collecting regional banjo, fiddle tunes and unaccompanied ballads that my ancestors knew. I had the priviledge of studying under the late Dr. Charles K. Wolfe, renowned music historian & Folklorist. I hold degrees in Philosophy with minors in Anthropology & Classical History and Graduate and Post-Graduate degrees in Educational Leadership & Curriculum Instruction with minors in History & Content Literacy.
