Have I ever told you my daughter loves music?  She has a record collection and most of the contents were purchased at "The Music Exchange" here in Kansas City, Missouri.

Ron Rooks owned The Music Exchange and it was a fixture of Kansas City for decades. 

There you would find my daughter in the store in Westport where she would finger through the albums and then after four or more hours would come home with the treasures she'd purchased.

Two years ago Ron passed away as he was setting up his shop after moving to the West Bottoms of Kansas City.  He was found in his new shop listening to records.

My daughter says there wasn't anything Ron Rooks didn't know about music.  Who sang it, who wrote it and when....... and besides that WHERE it was located in his 250,000 piece collection of albums.

There was an auction that started today for items that Ron referred to as "Americana." 

I love a good auction, so I had to go..... with camera in hand.

Dressed in her "Vinyl Saved My Soul" t-shirt off we went to the bottoms and the second floor of 1413 West 13th Terrace.

In a very short time I saw a lifetime collection of Ron's "Americana" which I couldn't resist snapping shots of.  You would not believe the wide array of items....... and I couldn't leave without my daughter having a little slice of memorabilia from "The Music Exchange."

The album sale starts next Wednesday....... and there she will be.

When we got home she asked me if she thought Ron was upset that all of his stuff was being sold.  I told her I'm sure he was up in heaven watching and spinning records.

So we walked out of there with this great mirror that's engraved that says:

"Remember The Music Exchange"

and a good sized box of all these different pin-backed buttons that my daughter remembered him having at the store that include music, presidential candidates, silliness and rock stars (The Beatles, Duran Duran, Rollings Stones, etc.)