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"From 1904 until World War I, this building at 61 Heaton Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, operated as the German Club, described at the time as "the mother society" of the local German immigrant cultural clubs. During the war, the club was forced to discontinue and the building was taken over by the Melotone Talking Machine Company, using the space as a gramophone factory." (Peterson Projects, February 2007) Winnipeg Tribune, September 27, 1916, p. 5. Regina Leader-Post, March 10, 1917, p. 13. Canadian Music Trades Journal, April, 1917, p. 49 and May, 1917, p. 53. CMTJ, September, 1917, p. 82. CMTJ, May, 1920, p. 81. A Melotone upright phonograph for sale on FB Marketplace in 2023. A Melotone for sale in Fairview, Alberta in 2023. A Melotone for sale in Calgary, Alberta in 2024. A Melotone with a more elaborate cabinet label for sale in Okotoks, Alberta in 2023. Jones & Cross Ltd., a piano and phonograph manufacturer in Edmonton, Alberta, ran this advertisement for the "Melotone" phonograph, in the Edmonton Journal, on September 1, 1923. A Melotone, sold originally by Jones & Cross piano store, for sale in Edmonton in 2022. 33 inches wide, 34 inches high, 21 inches deep. A Melotone for sale at Shediac, New Brunswick in 2023. A Melotone in Langley, British Columbia in 2024. |
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