Christmas - 1980 - 12 years old

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Recently, my father gave me a box of family pictures and in it were pictures of me with my first radio cassette player!

A mono box made by BicSound (????)

It was 1980 and I was 12 years old.

I have my "RUSH - Moving Pictures" cassette in one hand and a "Smokey and the Bandit" remote control car in the other . Sporting my white VANS with B/W Checkerboard bottoms. It's hard to see, there is also a pack of 60 minute cassette tapes that I still have in a box somewhere that I used to record off the radio with.

My sister had a Sanyo mono that I ended up with, but this was the true first cassette radio portable I ever owned and in just a few short years, I moved up to the Lasonic TRC-920 and ruled my neighborhood

GOTTA ROCK SOME TOM SAWYER NOW!

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[skippy1969]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!You were very happy I'll bet........
Not to crash your thread but here is my sister and I at Christmas 1982 with my first boomer.......
And i still have it.........

 

[baddboybill]

Scott and Chris love the pics. Thanks . Unfortunately I don't have any :-(


Bad Boy Bill

 

[stynger007]

Awesome pics!!!! The Bic , not sure if it was the same company, musta been, , they also produced rare and hard to find high end cassette decks with 3 heads , 2 motors ,and VU meters that just mesmerize ,which I have had the pleasure of owning ..

 

[DJBREEZY]

awesome pics!! you brought me back with the old school vans & smokey and the bandit car!! Classic

 

[Fatdog]

awesome pics!! you brought me back with the old school vans & smokey and the bandit car!! Classic

I agree! Thanks for sharing the pics, Chris. The only boombox I had back then was the Sanyo M9935, and I didn't get it for Christmas so I don't have cool pics like that.

 

[redbenjoe]

you dudes --chris and skippy were so adorable

but you sure had some crappy boxes

 

[gsbadbmr]

I love oldskool pics like these!

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Awesome pics Chris and Scott!

I had a VW1500 and a Sharp GF9696F in 1982. The car I bought was a used one and the Sharp was brand new. I never had a camera then. It was too much trouble then to develop films and all. Now I regret. I should have taken pics of it. My Sharp got lost in a move which I kept always covered with plastic after use. I washed my hands before I touched it. I was always worried about any chemicals attacking the finish. I still know how it smelled when you open the cassette door. New smell of electronics. The LED meters were completey new then, i loved to watch them dance with the music. Above all 40W power from a boombox was totally new to me then.

 

[THAFUZZ]

Great pics fellas! Themz wuz the days. "Stay golden Ponyboy."

 

[skippy1969]

you dudes --chris and skippy were so adorable

but you sure had some crappy boxes

That might be Ira,but that Sanyo M9902-2 meant the world to me.
It was probably my favorite Christmas present.
And it started my boombox addiction,LOL!

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Thanks guys for all the comments and mostly, for not making fun of my bowl haircut

Great Pic Skippy...Awesome you still got that radio, amazing

I have to be honest, when I got this BicSound radio I was a bit disappointed. What I wanted was a stereo box like my buddies dad's GE 3-5286A or any stereo box for that matter. (Thank you Reli for the one I got from you!)

But I knew my folks just didn't have the money. I understood that, but what really ate me up was my sister (2 years older) got a Sanyo M2441 which was still a mono box, but bigger, with a larger speaker. What pissed me off was, she really didn't even want a radio, but my parents bought her one because I got one and I totally begged for it and we always kind of got the same thing for Christmas.

She ended up giving it to me along with her cassettes....I rocked that box till I got the 920

Merry Christmas everyone!

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[baddboybill]

Nice bowl haircut Chris I had showed Jeannie your pic at 12 and what you look like now and she said " Oh My God". She could hardly believe that was you and neither could I I'm just messing with you I think we all pretty much had bowl haircuts.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Nice bowl haircut Chris I had showed Jeannie your pic at 12 and what you look like now and she said " Oh My God". She could hardly believe that was you and neither could I I'm just messing with you I think we all pretty much had bowl haircuts.

Yeah, if mom was in charge of your hair, it was a bowl cut

 

[baddboybill]

Nice bowl haircut Chris I had showed Jeannie your pic at 12 and what you look like now and she said " Oh My God". She could hardly believe that was you and neither could I I'm just messing with you I think we all pretty much had bowl haircuts.

Yeah, if mom was in charge of your hair, it was a bowl cut

that's how I got my bowl cuts too and boy did I get made fun of. Good thing I can laugh about it now and not hold it against mom!!!!

 

[baddboybill]

Jeannie and I at age 10 check out my bowl cut Jeannie still thinks I was the cutest kid out of everybody so she says by the way I'm taller than Jeannie I was just leaning over...

 

[skippy1969]

Pffft Bowl cut
I used to get a "colander cut"
You put the colander on you head and just cut what sicks through the holes,LOL!!!

 

[2steppa]

I love oldskool pics like these!

Me too

I have one of me somewhere out in the park with my Waltham mono tape recorder, only about 7 or 8 years old so I started early

 

[baddboybill]

Pffft Bowl cut
I used to get a "colander cut"
You put the colander on you head and just cut what sicks through the holes,LOL!!!
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m313/elisson1/ColanderBorg-Man2006.jpg

awesome

 

[bklyn sound]

hey guys thanks for the pics they are awesome I allways enjoy looking at old photo's ....christmas ones are the best here are mine