Electrohome Stereo Commercial 1972

[freethoughtmusic]

You know, they were beautifully well made, and incredibly long-lasting but were ugly as sin. I hated them even back then.

[SmittyHeWasNumber1]

These disgusting creatures plague craigslist electronic section.

[podiumman2]

Oh wow....that takes me back!!

[thatmuse76]

Are they playing Ramsey Lewis?

[djcrawleravp]

it was a kind of "portable" music device? :P

[Muffinman3670]

I wonder what would happen if we showed them an Ipod touch.

[carlynutt]

I think that actress was supposed to be a Doris Day look-a-like. Doris had a hit TV show back then.

[chads84z]

I would've hated to be the one lugging the huge one out int the sand.

[kitschetc]

the turntable is a DUAL 1211 - nice bit of kit and has autochange option too

[ShitFromShinolla]

I know. It is unusual to see consoles from the 70's with such good turntables huh? cool!

[streetcarjay]

Electrohome owned CKCO-TV in Kitchener

[peugteobike]

I want one of these

[jmkpns]

Was that a cassette deck at :37? I didn't know they had cassettes in 72.

[thatmuse76]

@jmkpns

Yep, cassettes existed since 1965. My father bought his first stereo cassette deck in 1969.

[jmkpns]

@thatmuse76 I heard at their beginning, cassettes had poor sound quality so consumers kept buying the 8-track and those darn things sound horrible.

[Lumotaku]

@jmkpns actually 8 tracks sound really good if you lived in the 70s. The problem is they dont age very well.

[wall1977]

trippy commercal. very cool. Had a Zenith console unit with micro touch tone arm, 80 watts per channel and even a midrange(presence) tone control. it cranked. almost sounds as good as my component system today,

[streetcarjay]

Electrohome owned and operated CKCO-TV in Kitchener.

[carlynutt]

My older brother had an Electrohome portable stereo with detachable speakers. It had incredible sound. Wish I had it today to play vinyl on.

[seebooz2]

P.S.But though their approach to marketing stereo consoles was a bit lame this old commercial is interesting in that it introduces Electrohome  Had never heard of them before.Thanks for sharing.

I've been looking at Electrohome consoles elsewhere on the internet. Damn! They're big,gorgeous[and no doubt loud and boomy]. Some reside in thrift stores throughout Canada I'll bet. Lucky Canadians...

[seebooz2]

Too bad if they were going to use a woman in the commercial she couldn't have been a sexy babe.A Raquel Welch look-alike sitting on top of one of those huge console's while it's tuned to a rock station going full blast. That would've been fun.

Alas.

From the way this strange looking, not at all attractive, woman is dressed, she looks like she's from some weirdo religious cult.

[springloadedchicken]

remember what decade this was. in the 70s we were trying to be humanistic, realistic and sensitive to the working class individual the real person ethic. :D lmfao, yeh, right!

[springloadedchicken]

incredible pheonomen in the 70s.. you could just stroll outside for a while and then there'd be some giant stereo or tv right out there in the middle of a blossoming feild of flowers... it was amazing ;D

[darkebony]

I still see them all the time, today outside in yards on the street corners waiting for the garbage man to pick them up!!I guess things haven't changed much in 40 years.

[springloadedchicken]

says something about workmanship in that day and age eh?

horrid yet fantastic in a way.

[wilkes85]

What great products Electrohome had back in the day, until they sold out to the japs in 1984.