{"id":750,"date":"2010-02-18T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faujsa.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:57:42","slug":"digging-for-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/about-the-rsa\/digging-for-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging for treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feb-Nat-snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feb-Nat-snow.jpg\" alt=\"Cleveland weather provides a rare opportunity for Floridians Nathan Tinanoff to shovel snow\" class=\"wp-image-753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feb-Nat-snow.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Feb-Nat-snow-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cleveland weather provides a rare opportunity for Floridians Nathan Tinanoff to shovel snow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nathan Tinanoff, Ben Roth and Alethea Perez left South Florida to complete the final packing of the Jack Saul&nbsp; recordings that will find a home at FAU&#8217;s Wimberly Library. They arrived in Cleveland to find a snow-covered landscape and frigid temperatures. How did the Floridians handle the weather?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alethea said, &#8220;It was amazing! I got to throw my first snowball!&#8221; But they didn&#8217;t have much time to play in the snow, or make snow angels or even create a snowman, there were 78-rpm records to pack into boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each box holds 40 to 50 records and they packed almost 500 boxes over the Presidents Day weekend. That translates to between 20,000 and 24,000 records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marlene-Englander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marlene-Englander.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Marlene Englander with a fraction of father Jack Saul's enormous record collection.\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marlene-Englander.jpg 800w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Marlene-Englander-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo of Marlene Englander with a fraction of father Jack Saul&#8217;s enormous record collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Working in both the Saul&#8217;s home and the furniture store they were amazed at what was still left behind. &#8220;This collection was so extensive that even after we packed two truckloads of recordings, it still seemed like there was so much more there,&#8221; said Nathan Tinanoff, director of the JSA. But as these pictures show, a lot of progress has been made in clearing out the clutter and packing treasured recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"Before aisles were cleared and boxed\" class=\"wp-image-780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture1.png 506w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture1-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Before aisles were cleared and boxed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"693\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture2.png\" alt=\"After boxes are packed\" class=\"wp-image-779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture2.png 520w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">After boxes are packed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The 78-rpm records that were packed during this trip to Cleveland will <em>NOT<\/em> become part of the Judaica Sound Archives.&nbsp; These 78-rpm recordings contain American pop music, classical music, opera and the works of many famous entertainers of 50 to 100&nbsp;years ago. Because of the size of this collection FAU Libraries is establishing a new&nbsp;Vintage Record Collection which will be under the direction of Nathan Tinanoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Below is newspaper article from 1976 showing Jack Saul with a basement full of recordings. It seemed huge , but who knew at the time that Jack Saul would continue&nbsp;adding to&nbsp;his enormous collection of recordings for over 30 more years?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2833\" height=\"2381\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/newspaper.jpg\" alt=\"Article of Jack Saul's Collection from 1978\" class=\"wp-image-806\" title=\"newspaper\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/newspaper.jpg 2833w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/newspaper-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/newspaper-1024x860.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2833px) 100vw, 2833px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Article of Jack Saul&#8217;s Collection from 1978<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/\">Discover more recordings<\/a><\/strong> within the Recorded Sound Archives website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Tinanoff, Ben Roth and Alethea Perez left South Florida to complete the final packing of the Jack Saul&nbsp; recordings that will find a home at FAU&#8217;s Wimberly Library. 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