'80s newspaper ads

[caution]

Turns out that TRC-920 ad I found was the tip of the iceberg. Here's a bunch more

Page 40: 4/24/85

Page 7: 1/30/85

Page 7: 9/30/82

Page 5: 9/27/83

Page 5: 9/1/83

Page 16: 12/17/81

Page 2: 11/7/84

Page 5: 3/10/83

Page 12: 12/11/81

Page 20: 10/21/82

Page 8: 2/1/84

Page 47: 7/16/87

Page 14: 2/5/82 (my personal grail!)

Pages 41,45,47: 5/7/87

Page 14: 3/5/82

Page 10: 8/12/82

Page 17: 8/17/82

Page 11: 5/24/81

Page 17: 9/28/82

Page 9: 7/21/83

Pages 8, 30: 9/23/83

Page 9: 7/24/81

Page 56: 8/6/87

 

[Reli]

Badass. How did you find it?

 

[caution]

Some I found going through each paper, week by week. Their URLs aren't indexed on Google, so you have to change the date in the URL itself to pull up other issues. That got to be too time consuming, so I decided to find what I could Googling different combinations of search terms, using "site:digifind-it.com" to limit it to the site they're all on.

Descriptive: portable, cassette, stereo, recorder, radio, etc.
Makes/styles: Panasonic, Platinum, JVC, Lasonic, etc.
Models: TRC-920, RX5250, etc.

A few come up if I search the model number only, just depends on what info was in that ad, and how legible it was to the OCR process, either from bad copy or overly stylized fonts. I'm just glad New Jersey decided to scan in a bunch of their community newspapers, there are a lot of them and go back to the 60s and 70s in some cases.

 

[peturssc]

Great find. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Ghettoboom767]

Cool!! 😎📻

 

[RETRO-SYNTH]

Awesome finds! There is a huge stash of old newspapers at a thrift shop next to my place. Would be cool to go through for some color ads when I have time. They'd probably let them go for pennies

 

[Hisrudeness]

Great post!