This story originated with the Associated Press and spread over last  
weekend to many websites. If anyone sees copies of the story IN PRINT,  
I would appreciate a hard copy of the paper.

Other stories on the collection (which is being moved today (Tuesday)  
and tomorrow--I hope to be there for several hours in NYC mid-day on  
Wednesday) include:

NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/02arts-SYRACUSEUNIV_BRF.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Syracuse Post Standard:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/su_receives_records_worth_1_mi.html

NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/07/03/2008-07-03_syracuse_university_to_get_records_revis.html

It's nice to know dad's legacy lives on.

Eli Savada
Bethesda MD

On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Dave Nolan wrote:

> http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx/?news=321680&GT1=28102
>
> Huge trove of 78 rpm records donated to Syracuse U
>
> July 5, 2008, 3:55 AM EST
>
> SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A vast collection of 78 rpm records — valued  
> at $1
> million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of
> American music history — is being donated to Syracuse University by  
> the
> estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.
>
> The more than 200,000 records represented the entire inventory of  
> "Records
> Revisited," a landmark Manhattan store owned by Morton Savada, who  
> died in
> February from lung cancer at age 85.
> ...