The Ghettoblaster

[memoman]

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That similar, but the one I remember played the records sideways, not sure how the needle stayed in the grooves.

i posted another photo its dissappeared with the one you mentioned one sec.I will find it again.

[Richard1978]

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That similar, but the one I remember played the records sideways, not sure how the needle stayed in the grooves.

[memoman]

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There were some big enough to have a record player, I remember seeing a Sharp model with a turntable.

[Richard1978]

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There were some big enough to have a record player, I remember seeing a Sharp model with a turntable.

[memoman]

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I had a monster Sharp GF-555 many moons ago, then it broke, and then I was given (gasp) another one about ten years ago, which I then swapped for a Boss drum machine. I wish I hadn't!

That's a monster!Just shows how mp3 players have saved the young of today the back strain carrying these beasts!

[steveffisher]

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I had a monster Sharp GF-555 many moons ago, then it broke, and then I was given (gasp) another one about ten years ago, which I then swapped for a Boss drum machine. I wish I hadn't!

[memoman]

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I had a phillips one december 1982.It cost me something like £69-00 from argos.I used to go everywhere with it blasting tunes out elo queen etc.I much prefer mp3 players now much lighter and at least your not starling the neighbours.;-)

[Richard1978]

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I got a Grundig one in 1987 with money I got for my 9th birthday.

It was in regular use until late 1995 when I got a Samsung twin tape deck unit with a CD player.

After that my Dad kept it in the kitchen until the tape deck began to act up, & after my Dad got a new radio & it was consigned to the back of the garage.

[FLYING SAUCER]

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I had a Toshiba in 1984 - it used 6 DType batteries and played tapes, the quality was great and still works perfectly now! Mind you the colour scheme was black and red bit dated now, but my friend had a silver and blue one and that lives on too!

[branny]

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I can't remember the make of my first one. My dad wasn't very brand orientated so after spending my time ogling the likes of Sony and JVC (you could tell the decent ones, they were metal tape compatible) I ended up with some terrible Japanese make whilst one of my mates got a decent one so we used to go round his house to listen to music.

I did eventually get a JVC one when I started working part time. CD, graphic eq and detachable speakers. Cost me nearly £400 in the late 80s. Graphic eq got knackered by a snowball. My bro in law had the Hitachi one earlier in the thread.

[Austin 1100]

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That's a nice Philips you got there Daz, and in superb condition!

[sixtyten]

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Here's mine

[Austin 1100]

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I had my first ghettoblaster in 1983 and I'm now a collector of these wonderful machines, I have around 20 at present.

Yelever, the one you pictured is the Breakdancer Discolite, famous for it's very poor sound quality amongst collectors. These machines were fetching big money on ebay recently after one was featured in Madonna's Hung Up video.

Huggie 74, the one in your post on the guy's shoulder is the Conion C-100F, a collectors holy grail!

[yelever]

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Anyone had this one?


I know in England there was one similar made by proline but didnt have the lights, one of my mates had the proline one.

Had a few others along the way. Remember getting a Murphy one from the cataloge and wanted it coz is had detachable speakers, using it once and sending it back because the sound was terrible then re-ordering the Phillips one they had with the detachable speakers and keeping it so I could tie it to the handle bars of my bike. Wasn`t bad for 60 quid in the late 80`s.

[yelever]

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Errrrmmm thanx for the welcome back but still travelling lol. In Texas right now.