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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:04:52 PM EDT
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Just ordered a cheapo bluetooth speaker off Amazon. How did I cost myself money posting a thread?
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:05:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Absolutely! https://media.tenor.com/dOF66xjEAukAAAAC/sayanything-boombox.gif Yeah chick flick from 80's but funny none the less. We had a asian friend named Eric. We called him Donger.... Talked to the girl I went to that movie with in 1989/1990 just the other day and she brought that movie up. Odd things. |
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:08:42 PM EDT
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What’s old is new again.
Picked up one from an estate sale few years back for the shop Rat chewed the cord and it burned up :/ |
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:18:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That looks like the G-Boom Bluetooth speaker boom box i have. Good sounding unit. Was a clearance deal at Walmart. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/382442/81st_FqKAyL__AC_UF894_1000_QL80__jpg-2857528.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/382442/c0ae3d14a1a364742ce2d76a8bfffaf9--php_jp-2857535.JPG  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:19:37 PM EDT
[#5]
I still have several boom boxen. Some are 80's vintage.
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:24:26 PM EDT
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 It's not really a boombox, or ghetto blaster as they were also called, unless it's big, cumbersome, and has the dual cassette deck. Me, my cousin, and a few guys at our school each had one. Ran down SO many D-cell batteries back then. I bet we went through a set every couple weeks. And if you had money, you had one of these...Lasonic TRC-975: 
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:26:53 PM EDT
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I wish I had another boom box so I could break out all my cassettes from the 80's and play them again. Or at least the ones that will still work, they've been stored a loooong time lol.
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:28:23 PM EDT
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We used to refer to them as a Ghetto Blaster
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:29:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not anymore! The classics in good condition are worth $$ so that and the gun would get jacked. Also the blacks guys in the hood have replaced them with a cell phon on speaker or a Bluetooth speaker on full blast. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Good way to stash a gun.  Not anymore! The classics in good condition are worth $$ so that and the gun would get jacked. Also the blacks guys in the hood have replaced them with a cell phon on speaker or a Bluetooth speaker on full blast.  The UC-9: Like a Sneaky, Extra-Boxy Uzi |
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:32:46 PM EDT
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I had the Lasonic TRC-920 that may have been a Christmas gift in 1983.
We listened to Maxell cassettes made from the records my friends and I were buying at the time. Prince to Grand Master Flash. It went to college with me where I used it to que up tapes when I would DJ our frat parties. A few years later the cassette player stopped working but it still had aux in & radio and it was the primary system in my home office. Around 2000 the input selector got stuck on aux so I plugged in a DAT player. Later I used it with an XM home receiver. Around 2010, it just stopped playing one day. 27 years was a good run. |
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Posted: 6/19/2023 10:53:06 PM EDT
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I got a Sharp in 1984 for Christmas. Fucker weighed 50 pounds and took 10 D batteries. The front opened up and took a 33 1/3 record.
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Posted: 6/19/2023 11:20:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/19/2023 11:37:50 PM EDT
[#13]
 LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio (1985) |
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Posted: 6/19/2023 11:38:26 PM EDT
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Chad Muska 50-50 grind with boom box on the shoulder. Don’t remember the members name yet his avatar is a guy doing a kick flip. He would remember this.
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Posted: 6/19/2023 11:41:12 PM EDT
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I just found the same model I first had as a teenager at the thrift store for $6. It’s in my office now, lol. We used to take it waterskiing and skateboarding and blast music. I made my friends pitch in for batteries.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:19:26 AM EDT
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I remember them by a different name
 The Living Daylights 007 - Ghetto-blaster |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:26:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryCame here to post that. Great memories (the 80's). |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 1:43:56 AM EDT
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I had a marantz superscope. This was in the late 70's. That thing was amazing, you could flip this little switch for "surround sound". By wizardry, it sounded like there were little speakers all around you. It was heavy for it's size.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 1:45:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Ghetto Blaster Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Good way to stash a gun. That's what we called them among my people. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 2:06:56 AM EDT
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The one with the cassette player or the 8 track to go with
the am/fm radio lol I had both |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 2:17:01 AM EDT
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I had one when I was in high school. Listened to the radio nightly, and played my old school Metallica CDs.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 2:31:51 AM EDT
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I would have to dig it out - but I enjoyed making mix tapes with mine. One of my favorite was recording a top 40 in 86. Damn that week had some great songs. Eye of the Tiger, Jenny, a couple others. Googling, mid summer of 82 apparently. Abracadabra was also on it. If it is the week I think, it had Rossanna, Dancing in the Street, Tainted Love, and errgh Ebony and Ivory...
I must have done the 86 one for a time vault - it was opened a couple years ago, the tape was destroyed by water. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 2:57:08 AM EDT
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Remember? Top right corner of pic.
 For awhile I was using it as a studio monitor if I didn't want to run my main speakers. In 1985 I carried 35 lbs of stereo with me wherever I went. But it was usually on 3-4, it was so I could hear my music, I didn't make the people down the street have to listen to it. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 3:15:00 AM EDT
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Used to see them a lot after duty at Ft Bragg in the early/mid '80s. A group of guys wandering around with 1 of them having a boom box shouldered.
Or sitting in front of one of the shopettes or barber shops at each Bde with them blaring. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 3:31:20 AM EDT
[#25]
Ghetto Blaster or Third World Briefcase in the late 80's.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 3:32:28 AM EDT
[#26]
 History Of the world Part 1 "Oedipus & Funky Town" |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 4:13:34 AM EDT
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I still have VHS and cassettes that I use.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 9:58:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What’s old is new again. Picked up one from an estate sale few years back for the shop Rat chewed the cord and it burned up :/ Burned the rat, boombox, or both? @country_boy87 Inquiring minds want to know. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:05:13 AM EDT
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Also known back then as a: "Life Support System for a Broth-uh".
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:11:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell yah I remember them. But these days, why? Who wants to pay the "D" cell tax, when you could get a smaller, more powerful rechargeable B.T. noisemaker? So get rechargeable D cells. Or just rig a simple lion pack in their place. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:25:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:28:20 AM EDT
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 My brother and I bought JVC 838's back in the late 70's. They had great sound, but once the tape heads started going out of alignment, there was no getting them back into alignment. Currently, non working models are going for as high as 700 for parts, refurbed units, 1000, and some used units as much as 2100 Jay |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:32:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who still has one in the basement?  Not in the basement, but in the garage. Dual cassettes, cd, removable speakers, built in EQ and I still have the remote - my kids think it's cool. Still works flawlessly. Had it since '92. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:33:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm sorry, that you don't understand, but I need a radio inside my hand! Don't mean to offend other citizens, but I kick my volume way past 10! I've still got a smaller Sony one in the garage that I've had for 20-25 years. The cassette player portion doesn't play perfectly (the speed warbles) but I just use it for FM background noise when I'm working on the car or something. I had a way bigger one as a teenager with dual cassette, but I don't know what happened to it. I was in a breakdancing crew in 1985, the size of your "box" was a status symbol. My buddy Russell Johnson had a giant one with separate left and right 9-band EQ, flashing lights, it took something like 13 D-cells and would eat through them by the end of a beach trip. Probably should have had wheels on it.  I still have all my old mix tapes:  |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:38:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell yah I remember them. But these days, why? Who wants to pay the "D" cell tax, when you could get a smaller, more powerful rechargeable B.T. noisemaker? 3 Eneloops in the "D" adapter and you're good to go w/ rechargeable batteries. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:41:24 AM EDT
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Oh I for sure remember them. I had a couple through the eighties. Sounded like tinny utter shit. My tiny little Bose Soundlink would blow most of them away.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:44:57 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:48:30 AM EDT
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I still have my dual cassette boombox from 1983. Still works, although I only use the radio. Somewhere, I still have a box of copied tapes.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:50:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There was a point in my life the only thing I wanted was a duel cassette deck boom box. Never could save the $45 lawn mowing money to buy one. My 1st one was like $250.00 but It was flippin Huge. It had detachable speakers Aux inputs, a Mic input and you could set it up like a house stereo. It was "portable", but damn, you needed to tow it around in a red Wagon... Heck with that. I ended up buying another that was only about a 100 bucks. Seemed like it took another Hundo in D batteries... Much more manageable... I took that thing everywhere. Can't tell you how many cassettes of Beastie Boys, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Ice T, ZZ Top, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Motley Crue and others that thing ate from playing them so much... I'd keep it plugged in if we were anywhere that had power and just use batteries when we were walking or in the back of my parents old chevy truck... I also had a shitty Realistic Rack system from "The Shack" that was a giant POS, but we found out, its Duel cassette deck was a BEAST at dubbing tapes... I get a new Tape, make 2 or 3 copies, put the store bought original in my "Library" and put the Maxell or whatever in my rotation case and play the crap outta them... When the tape wore so thin, it would break or you could hear the audio being distorted, I'd just pump out a new one... I'd also sell copies for 3.00 and two blanks... One for them and a blank for my supplies... God I had a lot of tapes. When CDs came out, I would copy them to tape too till burners came out and were finally affordable... |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 10:51:00 AM EDT
[#40]
Good memories... Now I have "Jam on it" stuck in my head
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Posted: 6/20/2023 11:20:06 AM EDT
[#41]
I always wanted the ghetto blaster from The Living Daylights
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Posted: 6/20/2023 11:22:07 AM EDT
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there was a boom box arms race at my school.
it got ridiculous. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:06:13 PM EDT
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Recall the massive stereo systems of the 70's too!
Guy moved his daughter into a campus dorm and was surprised how quiet it was compared to when he attended, no more stereo systems or boom boxes just lots of earbuds. |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:08:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I saw one yesterday. Guy was walking out by the lake carrying up on his shoulder. Had you traveled back to the 80s??? Edited...meant 80s |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:16:03 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:20:05 PM EDT
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I remember them but nobody I knew used or had one. Nobody was out with a radio just walking around unless you were in the actual ghetto - ghetto blasters. People had loud stereos in their car but they weren't walking around carrying a large weight to hear it, mostly cause nobody just walked around in public unless you were in the actual ghetto. Driving at 15 if you could save enough for a nice radio you could save enough for a junker car. My first car cost probably less than some of the radios shown here.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:42:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Burned the rat, boombox, or both? @country_boy87 Inquiring minds want to know. Burnt the rat and it melted the back panel of the boombox Jump shot into the garbage |
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:45:46 PM EDT
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I still use a big Sony X-plod boombox in my home gym. It just won’t quit and still sounds great.
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:53:26 PM EDT
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I shot at an '80s themed match a few years ago and we had to complete part of a stage with a boom box on our shoulders:
 
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Posted: 6/20/2023 12:59:44 PM EDT
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Panasonic Platinum
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