The Ghettoblaster

[Chris-T]

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You dont see folk walking down the street with their box anymore lol

I used to back in the 80s all the time, used to walk past the house of a girl I used to fancy and turn it up (not sure what I was expecting to achieve!).
Would still use one for music at a BBQ or maybe the beach.......... trouble is my large ones take TEN 'D' cells.

[Twocky61]

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Ten D cell batteries in mine too lol It was massive and could only be carried on your shoulder

[stuckinthepast77]

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ive had nearly 1000 old ghettoblasters in the last 5 yearsstraight up!ive had jvc's,sanyos,sharps,panasonics,aiwas,sonys and various others-paid between £1 and £500 for individual ones!only got a couple now,well 4 actually-a massive hitachi 8200,a jvc with a built in record player,a big sony and a second hitachi as im moving off them in favour of vintage packaging instead-if anyone lives near me in west yorkshire your welcome to drop in for a brew and a look

[Twocky61]

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ive had nearly 1000 old ghettoblasters in the last 5 yearsstraight up!ive had jvc's,sanyos,sharps,panasonics,aiwas,sonys and various others-paid between £1 and £500 for individual ones!only got a couple now,well 4 actually-a massive hitachi 8200,a jvc with a built in record player,a big sony and a second hitachi as im moving off them in favour of vintage packaging instead-if anyone lives near me in west yorkshire your welcome to drop in for a brew and a look

Is that the record player in the form of a slot to put the record in similar to ones they had in cars? The car ones died the death as the records they played would get scratched due to road vibration

[Richard1978]

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ive had nearly 1000 old ghettoblasters in the last 5 yearsstraight up!ive had jvc's,sanyos,sharps,panasonics,aiwas,sonys and various others-paid between £1 and £500 for individual ones!only got a couple now,well 4 actually-a massive hitachi 8200,a jvc with a built in record player,a big sony and a second hitachi as im moving off them in favour of vintage packaging instead-if anyone lives near me in west yorkshire your welcome to drop in for a brew and a look

You must have been scouring carboot sales far & wide, or did you just use ebay to collect all of them!?

[stuckinthepast77]

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no mate,just everything was scoured from the boot sales and 'tip offs' from friends and from recycle centres-cant afford ebay:cry:

[stuckinthepast77]

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hey twocky,no its a proper record player that pops out from the base of the unit on a motoralas it needs a new stylus and i cant find one!

[Richard1978]

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no mate,just everything was scoured from the boot sales and 'tip offs' from friends and from recycle centres-cant afford ebay:cry:

OK there were lots on the market in the 1980s, I had a Grundig one that might still be in my parents garage, but might have gone in a clearout, knowing them.

[stuckinthepast77]

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just got a grundig party centre this morning,a 500 model,for 2 pound-needs lots of work but im up to the challenge

[Twocky61]

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hey twocky,no its a proper record player that pops out from the base of the unit on a motoralas it needs a new stylus and i cant find one!

That is big Stuckinthepast just like a CD tray but a massive one

[stuckinthepast77]

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absolutely!weighs a tonne too-problaly retailed for about £400 in 1984

[80sChav]

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I had one or two Heather yeah. One was smaller and the other massive. I recall as well how people took to walking about with Ghettoblasters instead of Portable Cassette Players./ I never subscribed (or even thought of subscribing to the idea/trend) but so so wish I had now!


80sChav

[sixtyten]

Necro Thread Reboot

No idea what I did with my Philips.. must have sold it before I moved out of Brighton
However, I have just started to restore/collect Boomboxes

Here are my first two..

[sixtyten]

I also have a scaled down JVC M90 and a mini bluetooth set

[sixtyten]

added the classic SHARP GF 9191