This Was Our Boombox
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WheatenLover
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- Georgia
Yes.
Did you have one in your house?
Growing up we never had a cabinet entertainment center, or even a record player so I got creative and made my own stereo system. I took a clock radio and wired in two little box speakers I got from somewhere. At that young age I didnt understand what true stereo was, other than it was two, so actually thought I had a stereo system. lol
Flarbalard
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I'm impressed you could carry all that around on your shoulder, but didn't you need a helper to carry the extension cord? 
Magna-Carta
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- UK
Yes, very similar.
Did you have one in your house?
At the time, we called them stereo gramophones. Ours had two built-in speakers. One on each side facing forward. Similar coloured wood too to the one in your picture.
DailyArtsyCrafter
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- Southeastern US
Did you have one in your house?
Wow! So nostalgic! We called them floor models. That's it. Dinosaurs for sure but seeing this leaves me with such longing. No, we couldn't afford anything like that when I was growing up. As an adult, I got to see them though, in some people houses and in stores. By the time used ones flooded the thrift market, I no longer wanted one. Some people are restoring and upcycling them for other uses.
Paco Dennis
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Yep. We had about that exact console. I would lay down face up and head in the middle of the stereo. I loved Jimi Hendrix's music. I thought the stereo fading was really cool.
Did you have one in your house?
Sunkist
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When my parents got one, they always called it a hi-fi.
hollydolly
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that wasnt my boombox that was my parents...^^^^^...I remember my father sneering at my record player, and pointing at the radiogram saying ''THIS is not only a music box, but it's a piece of furniture as well''
Did you have one in your house?
This was mine....
the Iconic Dansette...
almost every teen in the uk had one ...before ... stereo music centres became the thing in the mid 70's...
Sunkist
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That's kind of like my brother had.. not sure of the brand, though.that wasnt my boombox that was my parents...^^^^^...I remember my father sneering at my record player, and pointing at the radiogram saying ''THIS is not only a music box, but it's a piece of furniture as well''
This was mine....
the Iconic Dansette...
almost every teen in the uk had one ...before ... stereo music centres became the thing in the mid 70's...
CaliS
girl next door
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- West Coast, USA
Mine was something like this
Aunt Bea
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My sister had a GE suitcase stereo similar to this one.
I had a little transistor radio that ran on a 9volt battery.
I remember having to move the radio around and extending the antenna to catch a signal.
I had a little transistor radio that ran on a 9volt battery.
I remember having to move the radio around and extending the antenna to catch a signal.
Pappy
Living the Dream
I found the first one I had. Same color, same M. Wards. 
oscash
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- Sydney - Australia
that wasnt my boombox that was my parents...^^^^^...I remember my father sneering at my record player, and pointing at the radiogram saying ''THIS is not only a music box, but it's a piece of furniture as well''
This was mine....
the Iconic Dansette...
almost every teen in the uk had one ...before ... stereo music centres became the thing in the mid 70's...
oscash
Senior Member
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- Sydney - Australia
That one was almost identical to the one I bought as a teenager. It had a lid I could take off and put it in the other side of the room and play stereo music.
hollydolly
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- London England
you couldn't take the lid off the Dansette... but when i was 21 my brother bought me this little one..whih you could take the lid off.. and put to the other side of the room because it had a little speaker inside the lid...
hollydolly
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- London England
that was similar to the one we got just after we got married in 1976... except our was white...
OneEyedDiva
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- New Jersey
Yep, my first record player was similar, but it was pink.