Your first stereo

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

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My parents gave me my first stereo for Christmas. It was a made of plastic, and the speakers fit on top of the turntable. It was very cheap, but it sure played music.
 

It was a Goodmans and it looked a lot like this with the perspex lid... it was the very first thing we bought after I got married at 21...prior to that I'd had one of these..

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When I was in high school, 15 1/2 was the legal working age to have a job in which you paid Social Security tax. I worked summers for the Dept. of Water and Power for the city of Los Angeles. I was allowed to buy a stereo receiver that came with speakers from GEMCO. That was my first stereo. I wasn't given this sort of thing by my parents, I always had to work for it. I suppose that is how I got the work ethic that provided me a solid career later on.

Tony
 
My first stereo with two speakers hooked on the sides was actually an eight track player that used those large creaky boxed plastic tapes. My first tape was Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida...
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I had a small cassette player that wasn't stereo that I wore out a copy of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Cosmo's Factory on. Other than that I played records on my folks stereo.

My first real stereo was a Fisher (or was it Fischer) receiver and amp, a B & O turntable and huge Fisher speakers with 17" woofers. I worked for my father and paid for the stereo myself with the money I earned. I used to love going to the stereo store and seeing all of the cool new components. I also used to have dual cassette decks that I could make copies of tapes on.
 
asp3 said:
I had a small cassette player that wasn't stereo that I wore out a copy of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Cosmo's Factory on. Other than that I played records on my folks stereo.

My first real stereo was a Fisher (or was it Fischer) receiver and amp, a B & O turntable and huge Fisher speakers with 17" woofers. I worked for my father and paid for the stereo myself with the money I earned. I used to love going to the stereo store and seeing all of the cool new components. I also used to have dual cassette decks that I could make copies of tapes on.
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Good to see you @asp3
 
Mr. Ed said:
I had a friend who had a reel-to-reel player
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yes I had a reel to reel player... and an 8 track... when I was about 17 or 18 ......

We had the 8 track in my sisters' boyfriends' car... and a packed car full of teens would drive through the countryside from the city to Loch Lomond in Scotland at the weekends .. all singing Simon & Garfunkel at the tops of our voices...

Happy days...:giggle:
 
asp3 said:
I had a small cassette player that wasn't stereo that I wore out a copy of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Cosmo's Factory on. Other than that I played records on my folks stereo.

My first real stereo was a Fisher (or was it Fischer) receiver and amp, a B & O turntable and huge Fisher speakers with 17" woofers. I worked for my father and paid for the stereo myself with the money I earned. I used to love going to the stereo store and seeing all of the cool new components. I also used to have dual cassette decks that I could make copies of tapes on.
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That was my favorite album back then. Loved CCR.
 
My first stereo was green plastic. The speakers were on the sides and attached. I think my dad built it from a kit. I got it for Christmas when I was about in 8th grade. I can't find a picture of it.
 
I built my first stereo from a kit sold by Allied Radio in Chicago. I still have the big speakers, which are gathering dust in the basement.
 

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