New member with a beginner's collection

Have been a fan of the site for some time and lurked around but decided to join up and post a couple pics of my collection. I'm not super knowledgeable about these yet but this seems like a great place to learn.

Here in somewhat-rural Wisconsin, there's good and bad. The real grails are few and far between around here, they just weren't as popular back in the heyday, seems like most boxes were bought for jobsite use and few sprung for the biggest, fanciest boxes.

But on the plus side, old stuff doesn't get thrown out as much and the ones I do find seem to be dirt cheap. I think I have around $75 in my whole collection so far. The best being a really clean Montgomery Ward with the little TV inside.

My local buy-by-the-pound Goodwill seems to turn up at least one new box every time I go, and rummage sale season is getting started, so I'll update as I find new stuff. I have these 11 so far, and each one is a different name brand.





Sorry for the crummy cellphone pics, that window above always throws off my picture quality.

Your off to a great start! Looking good and welcome to the site.

BTW, fill out your profile so we know where your coming from!

Nice start! You got the boombox bug

That's a lot of boxes for $75! Well done and welcome!

Welcome mate, yeah that's quite a haul for 75 bucks and I love that Monty!

Great looking collection you have going there, and the price is even better!

Where are you located in WI? I'm in Manitowoc.

Good start! BTW there was a lot of boomboxes in the wild in Wisconsin, you're just too late Scott (Skippy1969) and Joe (Blu_fuz) already bought them all!

Not too shabby for a "beginner". My first boombox was a Sanyo M9935K back in late '83 early '84 so I noticed yours immediately. Welcome aboard!

Welcome dude

Welcome aboard with nice start to collection!!

$75 for all those is a bargain, all lurkers welcomed! Welcome to Boomboxery man

Nice start, welcome, mate!

It always pisses me off hearing all the insane bargains people manage to pull, bahahaha

Thanks for the welcome everyone! I added my location and info to my profile, I'm in Brillion, not far from Manitowoc at all 1986GLH, in fact I was just there yesterday checking out the thrift stores, no new treasures to report though. There was one at the thrift store in St Nazians with a front loading CD player but it was a little too new for me. Found a couple of plastic dashboard Jesuses for a quarter and the rest of the day was a bust. Stil fun to hunt though.

Squablow said:

Thanks for the welcome everyone! I added my location and info to my profile, I'm in Brillion, not far from Manitowoc at all 1986GLH, in fact I was just there yesterday checking out the thrift stores, no new treasures to report though. There was one at the thrift store in St Nazians with a front loading CD player but it was a little too new for me. Found a couple of plastic dashboard Jesuses for a quarter and the rest of the day was a bust. Stil fun to hunt though.

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Nice! We'll have to meet up sometime in the future and blast some boomers.

I use to have that same Curtis Mathes JX-500 boom box. Its still in the family. I gave it to my dad as I was told I had to thin the herd after my M90 purchase. I miss that thing (Bottom left of your picture) 3 piece box. Neat to see that another is alive and well

Great start. My wife limits me to how many I can have so I had to go after the heavy hitters but I love my smaller boxes as well.

Nice Collection

Welcome!!! Very cool collection you've got. Keep up the good work.

That's a heck of a BB collection for $75.00, I wish I had that kind of luck. Well then, now you've made you presence known by coming out of the boombox closet, how does it feel? Have you told your family yet? D'ya think your work mates will give you second glances, eh?!