The OFFICIAL Countdown To Lockn 2017 Thread

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I think that may be a 30/30 round and so Wyoming must be 30/29? Is that right? Are we 30/29 days from Lockn? Hard to tell from the information given.

So Wyoming's area code is 307.

How do you know?

THAT picture I know is 308. How do I know? Because it says 308.

I guess that I could have originally posted the photo with the number 308 beside it but it just didn't seem like that would be as much fun.

It was probably a 30-06 so Wyoming is 30-05 or 25 day to Lockn.

I tried to use my calipers on the screen to measure that but it came out as bigger than a 50 cal so I didn't know what to think.

Victor had acquired the Pan-American rights to use the famous trademark of the fox terrier Nipper listening to a gramophone when Berliner and Johnson joined their fledgling companies. (See also His Master's Voice.) The original painting was an oil on canvas by Francis Barraud in 1898 as a memorial to his deceased brother, a London photographer, who willed him his estate including his DC-powered Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph with a case of cylinders—some home-recorded—and his dog Nipper. Barraud noticed that whenever he played a cylinder recorded by his brother, the little dog would run to the horn, cock his ear and listen intently. Barraud's original depicts Nipper staring intently into the horn of an Edison-Bell while both sit on a polished wooden surface. The horn on the Edison-Bell machine was black and after a failed attempt at selling the painting to a cylinder record supplier of Edison Phonographs in the UK, a friend of Barraud's suggested that the painting could be brightened up (and possibly made more marketable) by substituting one of the brass-belled horns on display in the window at the new gramophone shop on Maiden Lane. The London branch was managed by an American, William Barry Owen. Barraud paid a visit with a photograph of the painting and asked to borrow a horn. Owen gave Barraud an entire gramophone and asked him to paint it into the picture, offering to buy the result. The original painting still shows the contours of the Edison-Bell phonograph beneath the paint of the gramophone when viewed in the correct light.[1] Only 13 originally commissioned "His Master's Voice" paintings were commissioned by the company[citation needed] and the original belongs to the archives at EMI (the successor company to Victor's partner in the United Kingdom).

In 1915, the "His Master's Voice" logo was rendered in immense circular leaded-glass windows in the tower of the Victrola factory building. The tower remains today with replica windows installed during Radio Corporation of America's ownership of the plant in its later years. Today, one of the original windows is located at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.