I had a Blaupunkt system in my old Jeep. I was kind of proud of it, until I realized that no one liked that brand any more. Or, more to the point, remembers that it ever existed.
It’s what I get for having a Jeep made in 1986. Old Tech doesn’t impress anyone any more.
I bet Durnell had the same type of Stereo. It was very popular in the American South way back when.
If it’s old enough to be retro, it’s back in style again.
In fact, wasn’t Retro the name of that one character in the Beverly Hillbillies?
Or am I mistaking it for that thing Scooby-Doo keeps saying?
‘Retro’ is when something is old enough that people forget all of the things that they disliked about a product. ‘Nostalgia’ is the same.
Are you thinking of “Jethro”, the “hot hunky hillbilly”?
With the ‘6th grade education’? (they enrolled him in a private boy’s school for years 4-6, and the school took him because a) the Clampetts had money, and b) they were doing some war games and needed the Clampett estate to outflank and win the games) and they graduated him and held a special graduation ceremony (ran two, and one early as a dry run rehearsal and just for the Clampetts so as not to upset the other families…)
Durnell probably has a working 8 track at home….with Dolby.
In his Yugo.xD
I remember Blaupunkt. Does that make me older than dirt?
And Rich, don’t diss 8track. I still have a portable 8 track player with some really good speakers I was gifted in about 1975. I wanted the TAPE that was playing in the store, my dad bought me the PLAYER and the tape. The unit works just fine. Tapes, are dead of age. Oh well.
Oh I love tape systems. I later moved to cassette. My first was a Sony reel to reel circa 1965. Big and heavy.
Of course I remember the days before the transistor.
TUBES!!!
I inherited the ‘sacred’ reel to reel when I got married. I so remember the days of ‘tube’. When I was 13 my parents bought me a ‘portable’ refurbished tube B&W tube TV. The handle at the top of it was a joke. I had it for a decade before I gave it away to another… still working fine. I remember the big cases with a handle, with construction and covering to match any 50’s single turntable and speakers set…. each one about the size of a living room stereo without the legs…the repair guy had 6 or 7 and lugged in by the need, usually by two’s, on the cases of tubes…..
My dad was all RCA. He bought this huge fully equipped entertainment center with the radio, turntable, and TV in one wall covering system. All with tubes. I loved it when the repairman had to come to the house and replace a burned out tube. I got to watch him. Seen all those glowing tubes. His services came with the purchase.
Or hauling it in to the shop and of course it would work perfectly at the shop, send it home, it would act up again, so you’d have to pay to have the guy come out and lug the big boxes of tubes and figure out what died. In our town the ‘TV Repairman’ was a close family friend, so for a good dinner he would work for cost of the tubes. The issue of a turntable, the adapter to run 45’s and forever having to replace the needle… I later worked for a big box in electronics and appliances; and we had a big box of legacy phonograph needles. I would tell the serious ‘ophiles, “When these are gone, that’s it, they are not ordering any more.” And in the several months I was there, I sold off about half the box as some would buy out what we had left that fit. We had a few tubes left too and I did the same thing, managed to sell out a few hundred down to like five.
My 8 track works just fine, why shouldn’t his?