Old record players

[beccabear67]

Around 1976 my parents bought one with a smoked-plastic lid that you had to take off completely - no hinge - to access the deck. It had two wired speakers and was perhaps a Fidelity, but not sure.

We had one with a no-hinges cover like that, kind of an annoyance.

[andrec]

Yep, it was rather a bind to have to completely remove the lid every time you wanted to use it. The Waltham made more sense in that it was hinged, although being plastic you had to be careful in case it cracked.

[beccabear67]

I remember an older Dansette type player with a heavy turntable on it, the whole thing looked very '50s including the metal play arm, but it did play LPs. It had one speaker (mono) but you could detach it from the player box and set it away from that as far as the wire to it went. It looked like a piece of luggage when all closed up and had a handle.