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The Talk-O-Phone Coy

1920

The Talk-O-Phone Coy

1920

    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.

    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

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