Mary Esterheld wrote:

>I suppose you, too, had a 78 album of Beethoven's 5th (RCA or Columbia?)
>with a red cover with a big white V...  ___ (morse symbol) on it as my
>folks did.

I remember the album cover well, alas, only from the stores where it was
displayed.  I didn't get a record player until lp's came out, and while I
no longer remember my first Fifth, it was probably a Columbia lp with the
top of an Ionic pillar decorating the jacket, the design for all Columbia
classical lp jackets at the time.

Walter Meyer