Heyya, =)
I remember it was 1977, I was 8 years old & this kid I knew from school showed up in the neighborhood with this ghetto blaster. No one I knew seen anything like it. I remember people commenting that you wouldn't want to lug around a radio that huge & then they started making them smaller, cheaper & the Sony Walkman radio wasn't invented yet. I really believe it was the first of the truly gargantuan stereos & it took like 12 D batteries & had 2 cassettes & 1 of them was side-loading like a car cassette player. I'm betting the GF-777 was a bit smaller. Am I crazy or did something like that come out of Japan before ghetto blasters were really available in the US/Canada? Are there rare models that circulated briefly for the ASIA-PACIFIC before the hey-day hit that were truly HUGE? I'm new to the box collecting genre so I don't know much of the history & can't find any good resources. I know I saw it as a kid & this thing was unlike anything I have seen since.
I remember it was 1977, I was 8 years old & this kid I knew from school showed up in the neighborhood with this ghetto blaster. No one I knew seen anything like it. I remember people commenting that you wouldn't want to lug around a radio that huge & then they started making them smaller, cheaper & the Sony Walkman radio wasn't invented yet. I really believe it was the first of the truly gargantuan stereos & it took like 12 D batteries & had 2 cassettes & 1 of them was side-loading like a car cassette player. I'm betting the GF-777 was a bit smaller. Am I crazy or did something like that come out of Japan before ghetto blasters were really available in the US/Canada? Are there rare models that circulated briefly for the ASIA-PACIFIC before the hey-day hit that were truly HUGE? I'm new to the box collecting genre so I don't know much of the history & can't find any good resources. I know I saw it as a kid & this thing was unlike anything I have seen since.
