During the 1920s and ’30s there was a shop selling records and/or record players on just about every block of George St in Sydney, NSW. The NFSA collection has record sleeves from at least nine different shops between Circular Quay and the Town Hall.
The Talk-o-Phone Coy
177 George St, Circular Quay
Sydney
Tel. City 2247
Full of stocks of 'His Master's Voice' records
Full stocks of Twin records
Features illustrations of:
-The Edison disc phonograph
-The Rexonola Grand, 'the instrument of quality'
This envelope can only be obtained at The Talk-o-Phone Coy
Dealers in grampophones, rexophones, Edison phonographs, and records
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.