Wocord didn’t last long, as their 'indestructible’ records were made with a cardboard base covered in a thin layer of flexible plastic which disintegrated when it got wet and the records would not

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 Pianola Company, 252 Collins St, in Melbourne also sold the Aeolian Vocalion range of record players and had 'Complete Stocks of the Worlds Best Artists in Vocal and Instrumental Music’.

Home Recreations LD, 388 George St, sold the Australian designed and made Salonola, 'The Instrument with the Human Voice'.

The Aeolian Coy in Sydney manufactured the Vocalion range of 'disc talking machines’, as well as selling records from the major labels of the time such as Vocalion, Columbia, HMV, Zonophone an

This full colour Columbia sleeve is probably from the mid 1920s, when the Viva-tonal Recording Electric Process was introduced.

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Music store Allan's is still in existence,  as Allans Billy Hide. The Melbourne CBD store is now located at 152 Bourke St.

It wasn’t only the main city centres which offered records and record players. Bennett’s Melody Shop, Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s east sold records and a range of phonographs.

During the 1940s and ’50s there were numerous small recording studios in the big cities where anyone could record a one-off acetate disc or perhaps have a small run pressed.