The History of the Boombox, NPR Music
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Uploaded by nprmusic on Apr 22, 2009
Before iPods (or even CDs) there were boomboxes. It's been 20 years since they disappeared from the streets, but the nostalgia they evoke is about more than stereo equipment. We've changed the way we listen to music — and to each other. Watch a video about the history of the boombox. Learn more about the boombox at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103363836.
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The bigger the better.
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@wawababa20 But its a toy I always wanted.
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I used to carry just a simple Casio tape recorder playing Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" and walk with it since I didn't have an actual boom box.
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This is a great piece on n 80's Cutural icon. Seeing these boxes, takes me back to my youth when I would be transported to another place by the music my BoomBox was playing. It was my therapy. "Long live the BoomBox". THAFUZZ ;-)
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Nice that's one day I'll do the same
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@trankillodad I take mine to an event every year called the Zombie Attack. It's done every year on Michael Jackson's birthday. I walk around playing Thriller and it has become an annual event for me ha ha...
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One of the other reasons the boombox fell out of popularity was most took D cell batteries while the walkman took 2 AA's and lets face it, spending 10-20 dollars to load the boombox gets expensive with alkaline batteries and the only real way of powering them in that era, a nicd D cell of that era was exactly equal to a AA now for energy capacity. Today we can fit 5 times that into a D cell so the environmental impact of a boombox is minimal on battery usage.
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you gotta know your limits with a boombox
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WE SHOULD MAKE A NATIONAL DAY TO TAKE OUT THE BOOM BOX OR BOOM BOX EVENTS AT LEASE TWICE A YEAR... If you look around you would see many people with vintage stuff sporting. Like I said BRING EM OUT....
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He'll I'll convert a modern one to a classic one!
Because you have to have that dual auto-reverse cassette players.
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THE BOOMBOX IS NOT A TOY!!!
wawababa20 1 year ago 46
A boombox can change the world!
Pei1983 1 year ago 34