The Big Ponder
The Big Ponder
Goethe-Institut
Record Booth
28 minutes Posted Jul 15, 2021 at 10:00 am.
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. Cariad Harmon travels to one of the last remaining record booths in Louisville, Kentucky, where she captures her own voice and revisits some touching messages from the past.