I was a bit of a late bloomer in the Craigslist department, for the few times I had gone there before, I never found anything that I really wanted. A couple of months ago, however, I started getting into a record player phase, and Craiglist delivered like Domino’s in that department. I picked up a nice little hand-cranked unit in Sioux Falls, and then I discovered a 1962 console record player in Mankato, Minnesota. It had the lighter wood that I desired and was more compact than the monstrous ones of the ’70s, so I was sold on it immediately … and it was sold to me. Behold the beautiful machine:


